ADM+S members showcase research at AANZCA 2024 in Melbourne
Author Natalie Campbell
Date 5 December 2024
The Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA) 2024 conference took place at RMIT University on 25-28 November, with a jam-packed program featuring a diverse display of ADM+S research.
AANZCA is a premier academic association that brings together researchers, students, and teachers from an array of communication disciplines to promote scholarship, inform social policy, and encourage progress in the broad field of media and communications.
ADM+S Associate Investigator James Meese was the organiser of the 2024 conference, held at RMIT University.
“This was a fantastic opportunity to share all of the wonderful work conducted by ADM+S researchers with the wider media and communication discipline.
“It was also great to see our ADM+S community contribute to the running of the event by chairing sessions, and leading insightful panels,” he said.
The theme for the 2024 conference was ‘Pause’, inviting attendees to consider the benefits of pausing during moments of global crisis and disciplinary chance.
The Call for Papers preceding the event invited submissions addressing the conceptualisation of a ‘pause’ in relation to media consumption and production, historic or contemporary junctures in media, communications or relevant sub-fields, the impact of GenAI tools in professional communication, creative practice and everyday digital cultures, findings, outcomes or reflections from activist, advocacy, social change and community-based research projects and their stakeholders, and more.
ADM+S researchers presented their work in the following sessions:
Session: Local and international journalism
Presentation: “Ink in our veins”: Insights from Australia’s small-town family newspaper dynasties
Alison McAdam, Kristy Hess, Angela Blakston, Matthew Ricketson
Session: Audience research in the age of the user panel
Presentation: Audience research in the age of the user
Djoymi Baker, Jessica Balanzategui, Ramon Lobato, Alexa Scarlata, Ashleigh Dharmawardhana, Sean Redmond, Shweta Kishore
Session: Governance ‘of’ and ‘by’ digital media in authoritarian states: China and Singapore
Presentation: Governance ‘of’ and ‘by’ digital media in authoritarian states: China and Singapore
Jian Xu, Terence Lee, Andy {Xinyu} Zhao, Howard Lee, Xiyao Liu
Session: Crip Space/Time and Media
Presentation: Disability Communication Panel II: Crip Space/Time and Media____Crip time and social virtual reality: Frictions of synchroneity and chrononormativity
Wenqi Tan
Session: Democracy disrupted: perspectives on politics and media in turbulent times
Presentation: Democracy disrupted: perspectives on politics and media in turbulent times
Ella Simone Chorazy, Stephen Harrington, Kurt Sengul, Agata Stepnik, Cameron McTernan, Caroline Fisher, Aljosha Karim Schapals, Timothy Graham, Kristy Hess
Session: Investigating and responding to everyday experiences with misinformation
Presentation: Investigating and responding to everyday experiences with misinformation
Tanya Notley, Sora Park, Aimee Hourigan, T.J. Thomson, Michael Dezuanni, Simon Chambers
Session: New tools and methods for observing digital platforms via the Australian Internet Observatory
Presentation: New tools and methods for observing digital platforms via the Australian Internet Observatory
Amanda Sarah Lawrence, Daniel Angus, Abdul Karim Obeid, Shanika Karunasekera, Patrik Wikstrom, Dang Nguyen
Session: AI and image generation
Presentation: “NO TO AI GENERATED IMAGES”: practices of authorship and user-generated content in fandom
Jiaru Tang, Xiyao Liu
Presentation: Adaptation, multimodality and intermediality in Generative AI: image prompts as creative work and commodity
Christopher Bradford Chesher, César Alberto Albarrán-Torres
Session: Disability and/in the media
Presentation: Disability Communication Panel I: Disability and/in the Media____Pause and delay: Understanding smart TV accessibility in Australia
Alexa Scarlata, Tessa Dwyer
Session: Social Media and politics
Presentation: Sunshine, or a shady visual signature? Examining coordinated sharing of problematic climate information on Instagram through logo detection
Caroline Rachel Gardam, Guangnan Zhu
Session: Mediatised national identities
Presentation: Chinese and South Asian Migrants’ Political and Media Literacy: Reflecting on Trust and Engagement before the 2025 Election
Sukhmani Khorana, Fan Yang, Hao Zheng
Session: Studying Platforms
Chair: Kieran Hegarty
Presentation: Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks
Axel Bruns, Kateryna Kasianenko, Vishnuprasad Padinjaredath Suresh, Ehsan Dehghan, Laura Vodden
Session: AI: User Perspectives
Chair: Daniel Angus
Presentation: Re-Framing AI: The Weird and the Workaday
Daniel Binns
Session: Disability and Communication Policy
Presentation: Disability Communication Panel III: Disability and Communication Policy____Disability and Digital Citizenship
Gerard Goggin, Wayne Hawkins, Aaron Schokman
Session: Media and Democracy
Presentation: Power, Publics, and Parasites: Towards a Communicative Model of Online Radicalisation
Vishnuprasad Padinjaredath Suresh
Session: Advocacy for Indigenous Australians
Presentation: Mapping News Media Polarisation during the Voice to Parliament Referendum
Katharina Esau, Axel Bruns, Michelle Riedlinger, Samantha Vilkins, Laura Vodden
Community-created, client-centric digital innovation by and for Indigenous Australians
Bernadette Hyland-Wood
Session: Mediated migration discourses
Presentation: Governance by Data: Visualization and Migration Policy Regimes
Verity Anne Trott, William L Allen, Kathryn Nash, Elsa Gomis
Session: Digital pause in the cultural sector: reflections and future possibilities
Presentation: Digital pause in the cultural sector: reflections and future possibilities
Caitlin Aithne McGrane, Jasmine Aslan, Larissa Hjorth, Ingrid Richardson, Vince Dziekan, Indigo Holcombe-James
Session: Digital Platforms and Regulation
Presentation: Digital Platforms and Regulation
Terry Flew, Timothy Koskie, Agata Stepnik, Justine Humphry, Jonathon Hutchinson, Catherine Page Jeffery, Joanne E Gray, Marcus Carter, Ben Egliston
Session: AI Development
Presentation: Gold Standards in Computer Science: Influences and Practices in Algorithm Development
Daniel Angus
Session: Ageing and Data: Pausing with older adults in a digitised world
Presentation: Ageing and Data: Pausing with older adults in a digitised world
Caitlin Aithne McGrane, Bernardo Figueiredo, Diana Bossio, Michael Doneman, Larissa Hjorth, Anthony McCosker
Session: News Media Regulation
Presentation: Facebook without the News: Link-Sharing Patterns during the Meta’s Australian and Canadian News Bans
Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Laura Vodden, Ashwin Nagappa
Session: 5G: Domestic media infrastructures
Chair: Gerard Goggin
Presentation: 5G Home Internet: Preliminary findings from an Australian household study
Rowan Wilken, Catherine Middleton, Stephanie Livingstone, James Meese
Session: Online cultures: gender and feminisim
Presentation: Mapping Network Actions and Interactions of Fan and Anti-Fan Subreddit Responses to Taylor Swift at Peak Saturation
Samantha Vilkins, Sebastian F. K. Svegaard, Katherine M. FitzGerald, Axel Bruns
Session: Pause for translation: the opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary research collaboration with health organisations
Presentation: Pause for translation: the opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary research collaboration with health organisations
Kath Albury, Daniel Reeders, Anthony McCosker, Benjamin Hanckel, Alan McKee
Session: Pausing on posthumanism
Presentation: Pausing on Posthumanism
Mark Nicholas Gibson, Mark Andrejevic, Marsha Berry, Fotini Toso, Toija Cinque, Luke Heemsbergen
Session: Communications infrastructure in regional and remote Australia: enduring challenges and possible futures
Presentation: Communications infrastructure in regional and remote Australia: enduring challenges and possible futures
Jessa Rogers, Jenny Kennedy, Sharon Parkinson, Lyndon Ormond-Parker, Daniel Featherstone, Kieran Hegarty
Session: Digital and online pedagogies
Presentation: Pausing before producing: Structural alignment as the key to communication efficacy
Ella Simone Chorazy, Rowan Wilken
In addition, the following sessions were Chaired by ADM+S researchers:
Session: Audience Research and consumption patterns
Chair: Ramon Lobato
Session: Democracy, counterpublics and populist media
Chair: Verity Anne Trott
Session: Creative Industries: Screen and beyond
Chair: James Meese
Session: Understanding Games Cultures
Chair: César Albarrán Torres
Session: Communities, crises and communication
Chair: Rowan Wilken
Session: Online News Consumption
Chair: Ashwin Nagappa
Session: Online disinformation and trolling
Chair: Axel Bruns
Session: AI in the classroom
Chair: Alexa Scarlata
Session: Digital engagement and inclusion
Chair: Jenny Kennedy
Session: Communicating Health and Sexuality
Chair: Kath Albury
