SATURDAY, AUGUST 9th
Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Roundtables
8:00 to 9:00am, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Ballroom Level, Grand Ballroom A
Table 01: Artificial Intelligence I
Table 02: Artificial Intelligence II
Table 03: Digital Infrastructure I
Table 04: Digital Infrastructure II
Table 05: Digital Phenomena, Broadly Construed
Table 06: East and South Asia
Table 07: Politics and Conspiracies
Table 08: Social Media I
Table 09: Social Media II
Table 10: Social Media III
CITAMS Business Meeting
9:00 to 9:30am, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Ballroom Level, Grand Ballroom A
Communication, Information Technology, and Media Sociology Open Topic Panel
10:00 to 11:30am, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Concourse Level, Michigan 2
Presider: Dhiraj Murthy, University of Texas at Austin
Between Social Cohesion and Fragmentation: Exploring Digital Technologies in
Neighborhood Activism
Niccolò Morelli, Università di Genova
Generative Chatbots as Truth Tellers: A Turning Point in the Social Production of
Shared Knowledge
Shanyang Zhao, Temple University
“I Want Out”: Expatriation, Meaning-Making Processes, and Racialized Discourse on
Reddit
Victoria Lauren Isaac, University of Illinois-Chicago; Charity Coleman, University of
Illinois-Chicago; Jiyoun Yoo, University of Illinois-Chicago
Privacy and Power in the Smart Home: New Findings and Future Directions
Sarah Elizabeth Farr, University of Michigan; Denise L Anthony, University of
Michigan-Ann Arbor; Chelsea Bruno, University of Michigan
The Moral Orer of the Manosphere
Tomas Guarna, Stanford Unversity; Angèle Christin,Stanford University
Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace (Co-sponsored by Section on Organizations,
Occupations and Work)
Sat, August 9, 2:00 to 3:30pm, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: Concourse
Level/Bronze, Michigan 2
Presider: MaryTherese Escueta, University of Delaware
A Processual Approach to Skill Changes in Digital Automation: The Case of the Platform
Economy
Jack Linzhou Xing, Georgia Institute of Technology; Naubahar Sharif
Bridging the Human-AI Gap at Whose Cost? Skill and Organizational Alignment in AI
Data Annotation Work
Tongyu Wu, Zhejiang University
The Same New Story? AI as an Accelerator of Institutional Isomorphism
Franziska Hein-Pensel; Institut für Angewandte Informatik (InfAI) e. V.; Sabine Hartig,
InfAI (University Leipzig); Sebastian Schuhmann, Institute for Applied Informatics at
the University of Leipzig; Amit Kirschbaum, Institute for Applied Informatics at the
University of Leipzig
Farnam Mohebi, University of California, Berkeley
The Unexpected Value of Tedium: How Automation of Routine Expert Work Disrupts
Professional-Client Identification in Medicine
MONDAY, AUGUST 11TH
Joint Reception: Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work; Section on
Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology; Section on Sociology of
Consumers and Consumption; Section on Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society
7:00 to 9:00pm, Offsite, D4 Irish Pub & Cafe
CITAMS at the 119th ASA Annual Meeting
August 9-13, 2024, Montreal, Quebec
MONDAY, AUGUST 12th
ASA Sections and Communities Open House
8:00 to 9:30am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 517A
Table 4: Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology
TUESDAY, AUGUST 13th
Media, Technology, and Emotion
8:00 to 9:30am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 519B
Presider: Timothy Recuber, Smith College
Black Men, Film, and Affective Reflections: Anthony Jerome Stone, University of Memphis
Data Auxiliaries: Making Online Dating ‘Work’ with Dating Spreadsheets: Skyler Wang, University of California, Berkeley
Emotional Tipping Points: Digital Photography and Video as Moral Shocks in Online Social Movements: Jeff T. Sheng, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Political Claimsmaking and Emotional Expression: Deana Rohlinger, Florida State University; Christian Alexander Vaccaro, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Brian McKernan, Pace University
When the Baby Never Comes: Perinatal Loss and Claiming the (Cyber)Space for Grieving: Ayrlia Welch, SUNY – Buffalo; Mari Plikuhn, University of Evansville; Elizabeth Long
The Sociology of Artificial Intelligence
10:00 to 11:30am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 519B
Presider: Taylor M. Cruz, California State University-Fullerton
Attitudes Towards AI Text and Image Generation in Media Fandom Communities: Irissa Cisternino, Stony Brook University
Goddess in the Machine: Constructing What Counts as Women in Livestreaming: Jun Zhou, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Opening the Black Box: Explaining Automated Software Systems: Alka Menon, Yale University; Zabba A. Abba Omar, Yale University
The Rise of Open Science and Corporate Power in Artificial Intelligence Research: Zhuofan Li, University of Arizona
Twitter Dreams of AI: Understanding AI Futurity Through Sentence Embeddings
: Stephanie Zhang, UCLA
CITAMS Roundtables
12:00 to 1:00pm, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 517A
Table 01: COVID-19
Table 02: Gaming
Table 03: Sex and Gender
Table 04: Artificial Intelligence
Table 05: Political Communication
Table 06: Social Inequality
Table 07: Online Safety & Community
Table 08: Media Studies
Table 09: News Media
Table 10: Social Movements
Table 11: Theory & Methods
CITAMS Business Meeting
1:00 to 1:30pm, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 517A
CITAMS Open Panel
2:00 to 3:30pm, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 511E
Presider: Celeste Campos-Castillo, Michigan State University
Closure Mechanisms for the Creation of Audience Overlap in Triads of Social and Communication Platforms: Yu Xu, Northwestern University
Data Practices of Singapore’s Smart City: Josephine Seah
More than Money and Metrics: Exploring the Journey of Atheist Influencers: Esther Chan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Di Di, Santa Clara University
Public Attitudes toward State and Corporate Privacy Invasions: Long Doan, University of Maryland-College Park; Brian T. Connor, University of Maryland-College Park
Transparency and Trust: Race, Gender, and Surveillance in Romantic Relationships: Anna Gjika, SUNY-New Paltz; Fanny Ramirez
CITAMS-related sessions of interest!
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10th
21022- Technology, Innovation, Uncertainty, and Change in Organizations
4:00 to 5:30pm, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 513F
21039 – Pandemic and AI Impacts on Teaching
4:00 to 5:30pm, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 519A
SUNDAY, AUGUST 11th
30408 – Politics of Artificial Intelligence
10:00 to 11:30am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 511D
30627 – The Joy of AI for Teaching and Learning in Sociology
12:00 to 1:30pm, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 515B
30822 – Social Media and the Internet II
2:00 to 3:30pm, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 513F
MONDAY, AUGUST 12th
40221 – Media and Society
8:00 to 9:30am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 513E
40223 – Media, Memory, and Everyday Life: Cultural Narratives and Social Practice
8:00 to 9:30am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 514A
40420 – Sex, Sexualities, and Technologies
10:00 to 11:30am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 513D
40436 – Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Roundtables
10:00 to 11:00am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 517C
Table 4: Exploring digital spaces and technologies
40857 – Open Refereed Roundtables
2:00 to 3:30pm, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 7, 710A
Table 18: Culture & Media
Table 22: Media & Online Community
TUESDAY, AUGUST 13th
50232 – The 2024 Presidential Election and the Politics of Media
8:00 to 9:30am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 516D
50404 – Gendered Glitches: Race, Class, Gender, and Technology
10:00 to 11:30am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 510C
50630 – Surveillance and Technology
12:00 to 1:30pm, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 516B
50657 – Section on Sociology of Culture Roundtables
12:00 to 1:30pm, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 7, 710A
Table 12: Extremely Online Culture
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