ICA Preconference 2017

The Consequences of the Internet for Authoritarian Politics:

Comparative Perspectives

Draft Program as of 04 April 2017

Time & Venue

Date: 25.5.2017
Time: 9 am 5 pm
Location: San Diego Hilton Bayfront (Onsite)

Wednesday 24th May

19:00 Welcome dinner for participants in a restaurant close to the conference hotel (venue to be
announced).

Thursday 25th May

9:00 10:00: Panel discussion Comparing Political Communication across Authoritarian

Contexts: Challenges and Perspectives

Paolo Mancini (University of Perugia, Italy)

Muzammil M. Hussain (University of Michigan, USA)
Svetlana Bodrunova (Saint Petersburg University, Russia)

Moderator: Florian Toepfl (FU Berlin, Germany)

10:00 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 12:30 Panel I Media Systems In (Semi)Authoritarian States: Results from

Comparative Studies

Marlies Glasius, Marcus Michaelsen (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, the
Netherlands)
Digital Authoritarian Practices: A Conceptual Approach to Internet Use and Governance in
Authoritarian Contexts

Muzammil M. Hussain, Vishnupriya Das, Fan Liang, Nadiya Kostyuk, Wei Chen, Nicholas
Moore (University of Michigan, USA)
High-Tech Governance through Big Data Surveillance: Tracing the Development of India
and Chinas Population-Data Infrastructures, 2000-Present

Michael Meyen, Kerem Schamberger (LMU Munich)

 Authoritarian Media Steering in the Internet Age. A Comparative Study of 18 Mass Media
Systems

Florian Toepfl, Anna Litvinenko (FU Berlin, Germany)

Mapping Comment Sections of News Websites across Authoritarian and Non-Authoritarian
Contexts

Chair: Terhi Rantanen (London School of Economics, UK)

12:30 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 16:30 Panel II Political Communication and New Media in Authoritarian

Contexts: Case Studies

Juana Du (Royal Roads University, Canada), Hongzhong Zhang (Beijing Normal University,
China)
Media Credibility: A Comparison between Privately Owned Websites and State-Owned CCTV
in the Context of China

Yusi Liu (Zhejiang University, China)

The Changing Mediated Environment and Collective Memory of Netizens in Authoritarian
China: Revisit the Critical Period Hypothesis, Digital Immigrants, and Digital Shock

Sarah Oates (University Maryland, USA)

Mapping Russian Propaganda in a Rewired World: Leveraging the Analytic Power of
Strategic Narrative and Computational Linguistics

Professor Daniela Stockmann (or team member, Leiden University, Netherlands)

TBC

Chair: Anna Litvinenko (FU Berlin, Germany)

16:30 16:45: Final remarks

16:45-17:00 Coffee break

The preconference is organized by the Emmy Noether research group

Mediating (Semi-)Authoritarianism: The Power of the Internet in the Post-Soviet World,
Freie Universitaet Berlin.
Contact: Anna Litvinenko (anna.litvinenko@fu-berlin.de),
Florian Toepfl (f.toepfl@fu-berlin.de).
Website: http://www.mediating-authoritarianism.net/ica-2017-pre-conference/.