| 10:15 – 10:30am |
Coffee and registration |
| 10:30 – 10:45am |
Welcoming remarks
- James E. Katz, Boston University
- Juliet Floyd, Boston University
- COM Dean Mariette DiChristina, Boston University
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| 10:45 – noon |
Social media and social movements in Europe:
Plagues, pandemics & war
Chair: Chris Chao Su, Boston University
- Nicolas Prevelakis (Harvard University): From one crisis to another: COVID-measures and protests in the aftermath of austerity in Greece
- Sophie Hattie (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon): Reading Twitter in the newsroom: Web 2.0 and traditional-media reporting of conflicts
- Vincent Jean Rollet (MIT): Mobilization without consolidation: Social media and the yellow vests protests
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| Noon – 12:45pm |
Luncheon |
| 12:45 – 1:30pm |
Keynote
Chair: Chris Wells, Boston University
- Joe Walther (UCSB): A pro-social theory of anti-social behavior: Online hate in social media
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| 1:45 – 3:00pm |
AI & algorithmic nudging
Chair, Kelsey Prena, Boston University
- Shin Dong Kim (Hallym University, South Korea): AI in Korean music production
- Emilio Arruda (Universidade da Amazônia): Mobile communication in a context of personal influence: Digital versus virtual influencers and physical versus metaverse participation
- Ana Serrano Tellería (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain): Public and private aspects of mobile communication: Fruits of research in Portugal
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| 3:00 – 4:15pm |
Mobile communication, personal monitoring and locational identification
Chair: James Cummings, Boston University
- Scott Campbell (University of Michigan): Mobile media, quantum communication, and subatomic flows: The case for media mindfulness
- Colin Agur (University of Minnesota): Mobile netware and post-COVID re-imagining of space
- Adriana de Souza e Silva (North Carolina State): Hybrid spaces 2.0: Connecting networked urbanism, creativity and big data in a (post) pandemic world
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| 4:15 – 4:30pm |
Coffee Break |
| 4:30 – 5:45pm |
TV, culture and caring
Chair: Juliet Floyd, Boston University
- Théo Touret-Dengreville (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): From subculture to popular culture: The rise of geekdom
- Susan Mizruchi (Boston University): Why it’s possible to love Henry James and TV serials
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| 5:45 – 6:00pm |
Closing Remarks
Chair: Arunima Krishna, Boston University
- James E. Katz, Boston University
- Juliet Floyd, Boston University
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