2025 ICA Media Sociology Postconference: Tuesday June 17, 2025

Theorizing Disruption and Consolidation in Media Sociology: Youth, News, Inequities, & Politics hosted by the University of Denver and Sponsored by the ICA GCSC Global Communication and Social Change.

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Sponsors
Registration was free thanks to our sponsors ICA GCSC Global Communication and Social Change, University of Denver, UT Austin, West Chester University, Santa Clara University, and Emerald Studies in Media & Communications

Event Leadership
The event is possible thanks to the service of Co-Organizers: Laura Robinson, Jeremy Schulz, and Julie Wiest, as well as members of the Global Advisory Board Grant Blank, Wenhong Chen, Kenneth Kambara, Muyang Li, Zhifan Luo, Noah McClain, Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura Ruiu, and Juliana Trammel; and Student Team Mentor Katia Moles who supported students including Christina Dai, Poiema Dai, Ryan Pool, and Morgan Vodzak (all names in alphabetical order).

Local Organizers and Support Team
The event was possible thanks to the service of local hosts at the University of Denver: Professor Lynn Schofield Clark and Associate Professor Erika Polson from the Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies.

Questions? Email mediasociologysymposium@gmail.com

Keynote Speakers Speakers (in alphabetical order)

Pablo J. Boczkowski, Northwestern University

Pablo J. Boczkowski has doctorates in Clinical Psychology (Universidad de Belgrano, 1994) and Science and Technology Studies (Cornell University, 2001). He completed a four-year interdisciplinary residency in mental health at the Alvear Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before moving to the United States to retrain in S&TS. He was an assistant professor at MIT from 2001 until 2005, and since then has been at Northwestern University, with a primary appointment in the Department of Communication Studies. His research program examines digital culture from a comparative perspective, with a special focus on Latin America and Latinx USA. Boczkowski’s publication record includes seven books—with an eighth one forthcoming later this year—five edited volumes, and more than sixty journal articles.

Svetlana S. Bodrunova, St. Petersburg State University

Svetlana S. Bodrunova currently works at School of Journalism and Mass Communications, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Svetlana does research in computational communication science, human-computer interaction, social media and inter-ethnic conflicts, and Russian media and public sphere. She has authored and co-authored over 150 academic works and leads the Center for International Media Research at her School. She serves on editorial boards of four international communications journals.

Heloisa Pait, São Paulo State University

Heloisa Pait, a Fulbright alumna, teaches sociology at the São Paulo State University Julio de Mesquita Filho. She has taught in Brazilian and American universities and investigates the role of new means of communication in democratic life.

Maria Laura Ruiu, American University of Sharjah

Maria Laura Ruiu (PhD) is an Assistant Professor of Media at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. Her research spans environmental and media sociology, with a particular focus on environmental communication, social capital, and digital media. Her recent book on Digital-Environmental Poverty explores the need to redefine poverty in the digital age by integrating environmental and technological dimensions.

Jeremy Schulz, UC Berkeley

Jeremy Schulz’s current research focuses on digital inequality and work and wealth among economic elites. He has also done research and published in several other areas, including digital sociology, sociological theory, qualitative research methods, work and family, and consumption. His article, “Zoning the Evening,” is published in Qualitative Sociology and received the Shils-Coleman Award from the ASA Theory Section. Other publications include “Talk of Work” published in Theory and Society and “Shifting Grounds and Evolving Battlegrounds,” published in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Since earning his PhD at UC Berkeley he has held an NSF-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University.