I don't normally advertise each panel, but this is a special one. If you're around #ICA26 at noon today, please come join @acsj-ica.bsky.social panel on reflecting on activism/activist scholarship at ICA as a one-year-old division 🥳
Power (esp. state), institutional ("games" scholars navigate, including cross-disiplinary translation in university decision-making), and inner vulnerabilities (motivation as scholarship is treated as calling, career, commodity) - Fen Lin offer a way to think about academic vulnerabilities at #ICA26
Here @deeliu97.bsky.social at #ICA26 presenting work we did with Emillie de Keulenaar mapping civil society actors engaged in platform governance, preliminary coding of thousands of orgs identify distinct styles of engagement, an evolving population, and areas where CSAs have different priorities
Even before GenAI, peer review is struggling @zizip.bsky.social suggests, says
* quantity of submissions⬆️, quality⬇️
* hard to find reviewers
* many poor reviews
* increasingly superficial scholarly conversations
Stark discussions at #ICA26 panel on "Rethinking Academic Publishing" with top editors
#ICA26 time is awards time. Congratulations to all journalism studies winners. As I have a special place in my ❤️ for books an extra shout-out to
"In the Shadow of the Global North" by J. Siguru Wahutu share.google/HKqSercbP0Ly...
"The New Censorship" by Ayala Panievsky share.google/wkLE62YxaUi3...
Interview research from 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧finds concerns over AI-generated misinfo drive "indexical discounting" eroding realism heuristic, many want systemic remedies. @richardfletcher.bsky.social presents work led by @felixsimon.bsky.social @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social at #ICA26
Preprint osf.io/preprints/so...
"I was born for the second time when the Iron Curtain was lifted in 1989" @thanitzsch.bsky.social says in personal and profoundly important Presidential Address on academic freedom at #ICA26, noting attacks in his native Germany as well as the US, Hong Kong, destruction in Gaza, and many other cases
“It is one thing to talk about inequality. It is something else to do something about it” @mkraidy.bsky.social says as #ICAA26 kicks off with opening plenary on 'Inequalities and Knowledge Production in Communication', also featuring Ingrid Bachmann, Tanja Bosch, Nicholas Bowman and Aliaa ElShabassy
Truly honoured that my book ‘Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful’ won 2 awards @ the #ICA26 conference: the 2026 Outstanding Book Award of @icahdq.bsky.social & the 2026 Philosophy, Theory and Critique Best Book Award. Grateful to nominators & committee members for the recognition
Hi #ica26, me again!
If you are in #PolComm and Europe, the ECREA PolComm Section is accepting applications for a new management team.
Please consider applying and share with your colleagues.
Meet me at ICA PolComm reception tonight if you wanna know more!
ecreapoliticalcommunication.com/calls/
Burcu Baykurt
Call for Applications: ECREA Political Communication Section Management Team (2026–2028) The ECREA Political Communication Section is inviting applications for a new Section Management Team. After …
