It's been really great to be in the virtual audience for #ica20 because I wouldn't have been able to attend otherwise. I want to start a thread on some of the talks that have stood out to me as I bounce around across divisions and sections
"Mainstream Marginalization: Secret Political Organizing in Digital Space" by @emilyvanduyn is some really great in depth work on why people join secret political groups online and how they leverage them

Political Communication > The Mobilizing Function of Social Media #ica20
"Whose Voices Are Heard?: Counterpublics and the Intersectional Issues of #MeToo " by @VezzieT takes a close intersectional look at what voices and themes were represented/excluded early in #MeToo

Activism, Comm and Social Justice > Digital Media and Women's Activism #ica20
"Detecting and Analyzing News Events" by @damian0604 is some great, very much needed work on methods to study media phenomena at the level of news events, rather than specific articles or broad topics

Computational Methods > Computational Approaches to News and Misinfo #ica20
"Understanding Dynamics of Information Sharing on WhatsApp and Facebook in Brazil" by @patyrossini is a really interesting comparative study of intentional and accidental sharing of misinfo and peer corrections

Political Communication > Sharing Political (Mis-)Information #ica20
"'We Dissect Stupidity and Respond to It': Response Videos and Networked Harassment" by @beccalew clearly shows why platforms and researchers need to look at how harassment plays out at an entire network level

Mass Comm > Media Representations, Stereotypes, and Portrayals #ica20
"The Ideological Landscape of Elites on Twitter" by @wrahool demonstrates why it's important to look at following networks to identify opinion leaders, rather than starting with a predefined list

Comm and Technology > #metoo and Other Public/Viral Online Movements #ica20
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