May 24th, 2023, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Eastern Time)

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PROGRAM 

Welcoming Remarks (10:00 – 10:10 AM ET)

María Celeste Wagner (University of Florida, USA)

Time Block 1 (10:15 – 11:40 AM ET)

Panel 1: Popular Representations and Contestations in Global Latinidades

Chair: Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez (Texas A&M International University)

Angharad Valdivia & Isabel Molina-Guzmán (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. USA) Exploring Latinidades in Contemporary Reboots.

Claudia Bucciferro (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA). A Latina Girl in a Tim Burton Narrative: Wednesday (or Merlina) on Netflix (@ClauBucciferro)

Celina Van Dembroucke (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada). Banal Images: Visual Mobile Communication in Latin America (@celivdb)

Maria Magdalena Walker (Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile). Espejito, Espejito: ¿Quién Soy en los Matinales Televisivos Chilenos? 

Ana Cristina Suzina (Loughborough University London, UK). El Cine en Sarayaku: Construcción de Memoria, Nutrición de la Identidad de Lucha (@anasuzina)

Panel 2: The Shifting Landscape of Journalism: Investigating Practices, Technology, and Infrastructures

Chair: Pablo J. Boczkowski (Northwestern University, USA)

Tomás Dodds (Leiden University, The Netherlands), Guillén Torres (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Creating civic open-source infrastructures for data journalism (@Kolenyo, @tomasdoddsr)

Carlos Rodríguez-Pérez (Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia), Tais Seibt (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil), Raúl Magallón-Rosa (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, España), Francisco Javier Paniagua-Rojano (Universidad de Málaga, España), Sonia Chacón-Peinado, (Universidad de Málaga, España). Purposes, Principles, and Difficulties of Fact-checking in Ibero-America: Journalists’ Perceptions (@CarlosrRguezPrez) 

Kirsi Cheas (University of Vaasa, Finland & New York University, USA). Towards Transdisciplinary Integration in North-South Cooperation? A Case Study of Collaborative Investigative Journalism Across the U.S.-Mexico Border

Juan S. Larrosa-Fuentes (ITESO University, Mexico). Testimonial Injustice in The Production of Journalistic Knowledge of a Socio-Environmental Crisis: The Case of Mezcala & San Pedro Itzicán (@Juan_Larrosa1)

Amy Schmitz Weiss & Lourdes Cueva Chacon (San Diego State University, USA). Spatial journalism practices in Latin America: Perceptions of Space, Place and Spatial Technologies (@digitalamysw, @cuevacha)

Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques & Edna Miola (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil). The Politicization of the News Media in Brazil (@ponteUFPR)

Panel 3: What is Possible? Women, Representation, and Agency in the Americas

Chair: María Celeste Wagner (University of Florida, USA)

Florencia Enghel (Jönköping University, Sweden). Does having access to information imply being well informed? Considerations based on a study of women’s everyday communication practices in Argentina (@FlorenciaEnghel)

Miriam Hernandez (California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA). Newsroom Support, Gender, and Coping Strategies on Journalists Covering Femicidios in Mexico (@miriamhdz) 

Catalina Farías (Northwestern University, USA) Fernanda Carvajal (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile), Camila Henzi (Instituto Milenio Fundamentos de los Datos, Chile), Jiyoun Suk (University of Connecticut, USA), Dhavan V. Shah (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Teresa Correa (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile). ¡Ella se lo buscaba! [She was asking for it!]: A comparative analysis of antifeminist discourses on social media and news media across Spain and Latin America in the era of #MeToo

Frambel Lizárraga Salas (Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, México). The representation of migrant women in the news coverage of online media in Mexico and the United States in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Lucila Rozas Urrunaga (University of Pennsylvania, USA). “Un violador en tu camino”: Knowledge translation and the formation of translocal feminist alliances (@LucilaRozas)

Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno (Loyola University Maryland, USA). Motherhood is Peril: How U.S. Ethnic Media Fail in Framing Latina Maternal Mortality

Short Break (11:40 – 11:45 AM ET)

Time Block 2 (11:50 AM – 1:15 PM ET)

Panel 4: Breaking Borders: Examining Latin American Migration and Public Attitudes through News Media and Digital Communities

Chair: Mariana Sánchez Santos (American University, USA)

Fernando Severino (Illinois State University, USA) & Sebastian Rivera (University of California – Irvine, USA). Immigration News in the Global South: The role of traditional versus non-traditional newspaper in covering intraregional migration movements in Latin America (@NandoSeverino, @sebariveraa)

Sonia V. Moreira (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Nélia R. Del Bianco (University of Brasília, Brazil) & Cézar F. Martins (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil). Precariedade digital na era de abundância nas redes: políticas de distribuição e uso da internet em escolas públicas da Amazônia Legal

Marco Trigoso (University of Massachusetts – Amherst, USA). Not so New in Town: How Peruvian Migrants Use Smartphone’s Online Infrastructure to Navigate Otherness (@marquotation)

Daniel Rojas (Centro LATAM Digital, Mexico) & Francisco Adrián García García (Centro LATAM Digital, Mexico). Acceso y uso de herramientas digitales entre personas migrantes en tránsito: análisis de caso para Tijuana y Cúcuta (@darolo_99, @driangar)

Brenda Focas (CONICET/ UNSAM, Argentina) & Marina Moguillansky (CONICET/ UNSAM, Argentina). Consumo de noticias en la postpandemia: evasión selectiva, desconexión y desconfianza (@brendafocs)

Victoria Gadea (Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Uruguay). ¿Cómo caracterizar la Incivilidad en América Latina? Propuesta de estudio sobre su percepción ciudadana y caracterización a partir del caso uruguayo (@VickyGadea_)

Panel 5:  Social Media Affordances & Digital Identities 

Chair: Mariela Morales Suarez (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Manuel Santillan-Vasquez (Universidad de Lima, Peru). Prácticas comunicacionales y discursivas en Twitter durante procesos electorales. (@Pop3punto0) 

Paloma Rubin (Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Argentina). Memes, reflexión crítica y llamado a la acción política: “Esta semana en Springfield” como infoentretenimiento político transmedia (@RubinPaloma)

Arturo Arriagada & David Craig (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile). Rich in Influence, Poor in Cash: Qualifying and Quantifying Latin American Creator Culture

Marco Jaramillo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile). Competitividades y meritocracia en las experiencias con videojuegos en Chile: el caso de Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (@marco_jaramillo) 

Aline Hack (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil). Contribuições feministas de mulheres podcasters brasileiras no campo dos direitos humanos (@advogadacansada) 

Marcelo Santos (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile), Nadia Herrada-Hidalgo (Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile), Arturo Figueroa-Bustos (Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile) & Roberto Munita (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile). News or Not News? Information Sources in a Nationalist WhatsApp Group during Chile’s 2019 Protests (@celoo) 

Panel 6: Media and Politics in Latin America: Investigating Polarization, Media Systems, and Digital Ecologies

Chair: Juan S. Larrosa-Fuentes (ITESO University)

Leticia Hernández (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico). “Estás conmigo o estás en mi contra”: La relación periodistas – fuente gubernamental en el marco de la 4T (@ana_leticiaD)

Martin Echeverría & Rubén González (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico). Postcolonial modernization and media systems in Latin America. The case of media markets and journalistic professionalism (@martechev)

Grisel Salazar (Iberoamerican University, Mexico). Political polarization is bad news for media trust in the Global South: evidence from Latin America (@griselsr)

Manuel Alejandro Guerrero (Iberoamerican University, Mexico), Mariana Sanchez Santos (American University, USA). Beyond Media Systems in Latin America: Corporate consensus & politically confrontational media regimes (@MAG1970)

Natalia Orrego (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile). La mediatización del 5G: exploraciones sobre la ecología de medios de la nueva infraestructura en Chile (@natalia_orregot)

Short Break (1:15 PM – 1:20 PM ET)

Time Block 3 (1:20 – 2:15 PM CET)

Keynote Speech 

Rossana Reguillo (ITESO University, México)

Short Break (2:15 PM – 2:20 PM ET)

Time Block 4 (2:25 PM – 3:50 PM ET)

Panel 7: Technology, Disinformation, and the Future

Chair: Claudia Bucciferro (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

Catalina Uribe Rincón (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia). Disinformation in Colombia: Results and Challenges of the Global Disinformation Index Report (@catalina_uribe)

Alcides Velásquez & Ashley Muddiman (University of Kansas, USA). U.S. Latinx’ exposure to and beliefs in COVID-19 misinformation: Social media platform differences and ethnic homogeneity of information sources (@alcivelasq @ashleymuddiman)

Magdalena Saldaña (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile), Cristian Cabalin (Universidad de Chile), Sebastián Rivera (Universidad de California, Irvine, USA), Daniela Lazcano (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile). Is news literacy really the key? Analyzing people’s exposure to and credibility of false content (@magdalenasaldan, @ccabalin, @sebariveraa, @danilazcano)

Lucia Mesquita (Dublin City University, Ireland) & Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands). News Media and Big Tech Platforms: Business Models Between Path Dependence and Power Relations (@luciamesquita, @Mathias_Felipe)

Stuart Davis (CUNY-Baruch College, USA). “Infrastructural Imperialism” and the Decline of Hemispheric Influence: Disentangling the Diplomatic Response to Huawei’s Network Expansion in Mexico

Silvia Dalben Furtado (The University of Texas at Austin, USA). Keep Journalists in the loop: an ethnography about the use of Artificial Intelligence in Latin American journalism (@SilviaDalben)

Panel 8: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Realities: A Discussion of Race & Class in the Americas

Chair: Miriam Hernandez (California State University-Dominguez Hills, USA)

David González-Hernández (ITESO, The Jesuit University of Guadalajara, Mexico) & Antonieta Mercado-Anaya (University of San Diego, USA). Las “Ladies” y “Karens” en México y Estados Unidos: del racismo y clasismo ¨casual¨ a las resistencias y críticas culturales en redes sociodigitales (@dgonzalezhdz). 

Erika Maribel Heredia (University of Central Florida, USA). How Twitter Exposes Daily Whiteness Practices in Mexico and Argentina (@hartlemh). 

Silvia Téliz (University of Pennsylvania, USA) & Valentina Proust (University of Pennsylvania, USA). Status, color, and race: dissecting the content of Latin American class stereotypes (@SilviaTeliz; @valeproust). 

Mariela Morales Suarez (University of Pennsylvania, USA). The fugitive homeland: A study of contemporary Cuban popular music’s transnational production and distribution (@Mariela61316489). 

María Celeste Wagner (University of Florida, USA). The Language of Race and Class in Argentina and the United States when Talking About Gender-Based Violence: Results from Qualitative Interviews with Activists and General Publics (@wagnercelest). 

Ines Vitorino Sampaio (Federal University of Ceara, Brazil / Harvard University, USA / Deakin University, Australia) & Laura Robinson (Santa Clara University, USA/ Harvard University, USA). A Tale of Two Januaries: From January 6th in the U.S. to January 8th in Brazil (@Laura3351).

Panel 9: Global Latinidades at the Intersection of Technology, Health, Care, and Wellbeing

Chair: Pablo Porten-Cheé (Heidelberg University, Germany)

Daniela Munoz Lopez (University of Washington, USA), Lucía Magis-Weinberg (University of Washington, USA), Christopher Gys (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Estelle Berger (University of Oregon, USA), Adriana Manago (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) & Ronald Dahl (University of California, Berkeley, USA). Technology-based social comparison and feedback seeking is associated with lower wellbeing among young Peruvian and Mexican adolescents (@dannymunoz31).

Melissa DuPont-Reyes (Columbia University, USA), Alice P. Villatoro (Santa Clara University, USA) & Lu Tang (Texas A&M University, USA). Media-based Health Information Behaviors among Latinx in the U.S. 

Jillian Baez (Hunter College-CUNY, USA) & Anahi Viladrich (Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, USA). Covering La COVID-19: The Media Framing of COVID-19 Vaccination Among Latinos in the United States. 

Sandra Carolina Patiño-Ospina (Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia), Carlos Rodríguez-Pérez (Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia), Sergio Andrés Forero-Machado (Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia) & Miguel Ángel Brand-Narváez (Universidad del Valle, Colmobia). Perspectivas de los realizadores con relación a las posibilidades del audiovisual como instrumento en la recuperación psicoemocional de víctimas del conflicto armado en Colombia.

Lucía Magis-Weinberg (University of Washington, USA), María Gabriela Fernandez Theoduloz (Universidad de la República, Uruguay), Alexia Carrizales (Purdue University, USA) & Marissa Arreola Vargas (University of Washington, USA). Online and offline friendships throughout the pandemic in Latin America.

Lisa Paulin (North Carolina Central University, USA). Spanish-language community media coverage of COVID-19. 

Closing Remarks (3:50 – 4:00 PM ET)

Claudia Bucciferro (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

5 pm ET: Registered participants will receive information about an in-person gathering in Toronto (place TBD) 

If you have any questions or concerns, please send an email to: icapreconflatam@gmail.com

ICA Divisions Affiliation: Communication and Technology; Ethnicity and Race in Communication; Global Communication and Social Change; Intercultural Communication; Journalism Studies; Political Communication, Popular Media & Communication, Public Relations. Sponsorship: This preconference is possible in part due to generous support from the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Center for the Study of Media, Politics, and Public Opinion (MEPOP) in Chile.