Accepted Paper Abstracts
Training grounds for healthy habitats? Imagining and creating civic AI in the fabric of place-based care
Sarah Barns (RMIT Melbourne)
Using open source programs to organize urban resilience:A case study in 2021 Henan floods
Yue Cao (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies), Jialu Hu (Fudan University)
Archaeology of the Urban Interior
Ziwei Chen (UC Berkeley)
No Fixed Address: Art for Programmatic Digital Out of Home Advertising Screens
David Colangelo (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Why Local Journalism Matters to Cities, and How City Leaders and Authorities Can Support it and Strengthen its Independence
Tarsi Dunlop (German Marshall Fund), Sameer Padania (Macroscope), Philip M. Napoli (Duke University)
The geopolitical contestation of urban connectivity: 5G networks and the supposed “New Cold War”
Jordan Frith (Clemson University)
De-Westernizing Urban Communication Research: The Case of Location-Sharing Practices Among Youth in Tokyo
Yuiko Fujita (University of Tokyo)
Urban communication in an agile social experiment: Lessons from a ‘500-users challenge’ to scale a local news platform
Andrea Grahl (University of Bremen), Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen), Jan-Alexander Krause (University of Bremen), Bartje Krüger (University of Leipzig), Wiebke Loosen (Leibniz Institute for Media Research), Alexander Ohlei (University of Bremen), Christian Pentzold (University of Leipzig), Julius Reimer (Leibniz Institute for Media Research)
Encountering Migrants in Urban spaces through creative methodologies
Niloufar Hajirahimikalhroudi (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Towards Situational Communicative Community: Interaction and Place Identity of Returning Residents in Urban Regeneration
Guoping He (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
Smart cities and the automated policing of marginalised urban groups
Justine Humphry (University of Sydney)
Community Attachment in a Time of Divisiveness & Media Fragmentation:Can Entertainment Provide Common Ground?
Leo Jeffres (Cleveland State University)
Communicating with different others in urban neighborhood: Effects of location-based social media
Yong-Chan Kim (Yonsei University), Miran Pyun (Yonsei University), Eunjean Jung (Yonsei University), Danbi Kim (Yonsei University), Lu Fang (Yonsei University)
Smartphones and the Sustainable Urban Mobility
Grant Lattanzi (Rutgers University)
Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Digital Twin Cities: Visualizing the Future of Urban Governance in China
Mengying Li (Fudan University)
The politics and promise of community-owned internets: A case study of Philly Community Wireless
Jessa Lingel (University of Pennsylvania), Wenxi Chen (University of Pennsylvania), Leanne Przybylowski (Philly Community Wireless)
Serendipity and Sustainability: The Extended Life of an Urban Location-based Storytelling Project
Weixu Lu (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
Cultural heritage amid urban pressures: Communication strategies for inclusive heritage digitization in the cities
Monika Mačiulienė (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University), Aelita Skaržauskienė (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University), Kristina Kovaitė (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University)
‘About us not without us’: Including the expertise of lived experience in a participatory action research project about homelessness in urban settings
Laura Moorhead (San Francisco State University)
Invisible labor, visible stigma: Storytelling networks and stigma narratives of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong
Jeffry Oktavianus (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and Stefano Occhipinti (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
SoDo MoJo: Sports Stadiums & Neighborhood Branding
Helen Morgan Parmett (University of Vermont)
"Intercultural City" and Emotional Connection: New Media Intercultural Communication in Chinese Cities
Zhang Qiyun (Tsinghua University)
Addressing Urban Challenges in Screen Production Work
Ipek A. Celik Rappas (Koç University)
Bridging Communication Gaps: Addressing Heat-Health Disparities in Underserved Urban and Rural Communities
Brett Robertson (University of South Carolina)
Journalistic Safety and Urban Spatial Practices: West African Journalists’ Navigation of City Spaces During Protests
Ibs Sackey-Rockson (Louisiana State University)
Urban Communic-Action - understanding practices of communicative solidarity in the times of crisis
Paola Sartoretto (Jönköping University), Ekaterina Kalinina (Stockholm University)
Digital Placemaking in Los Angeles’ Skid Row: An Analysis of Information and Placemaking Practices
Louise Xie (University of Southern California), Kelly Marnfeldt (University of Southern California), François Bar (University of Southern California), Monique Noel (Los Angeles Community Action Network), Pete White (Los Angeles Community Action Network)
The Conceptual Diffusion, Spatiotemporal Practices, and Communicative Implications of the "N-Minute City Circle" in China
Ziyi Yin (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
The role of media and journalists in intercultural urban communication
Sherry S. Yu (University of Toronto)
A study of new participatory public space production in fan-mediated pilgrimages
Juan Zhou (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies), Kewen Zhang (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)