Birchwood Ballroom (mezzanine)
Sheraton Centre Toronto
network name: ICA2023Toronto
access code: Authenticity
Menahem Blondheim (Hebrew University)
David W. Park (Lake Forest College)
Jeff Pooley (Muhlenberg College)
Julia Sonnevend (The New School)
Moderator: Jeff Pooley
Peter Simonson, “Communication, Opportunity Structures, and the Making of Elihu Katz, 1926–1956: The Child is Father of the Man”
Moderator: Barbie Zelizer
Klaus Bruhn Jensen & W. Russell Neuman, “The Effects of Elihu Katz: Enriching the Concept of Communication Effects”
Leah A. Lievrouw, “Katz, Tarde, and Theorizing Digital Communication” [not present]
Michael McDevitt, “Is the U.S. Press Invested in Democratic Crisis?”
Kimberly Meltzer, “Legacies of Elihu Katz: Contributions to Theorizing on Journalism and Television”
Patrícia Dias, Priscila Krolow & José Gabriel Andrade, “Youth on BeReal: Emergent Uses and Sought Gratifications”
Moderator: Julia Sonnevend
Esther Hammelburg, “Being There Live: Witnessing & Belonging at Contemporary Media(tized) Events”
Johanna Sumiala & Katja Valaskivi, “Hybrid Media Environment: A Key Challenge to Contemporary Media Event Theory?”
Charlotte Knorr & Christian Pentzold, “The Craft of Data Scandals: Reassessing Contemporary Whistleblowing as Media Events”
Sachie Hamada, “Media Events in the Internet Age: From ‘Watching on Couch’ to ‘Doing Sports Together’”
Rainier Winter & Jörg-Uwe Nieland, “Rethinking ‘Media Events’: Sports Mega-Events, Authoritarian States, and the Battle for Meaning”
Moderator: Larry Gross
Devon Powers, “From Fads to Trends: Lessons From Katz”
Laura Dilley, “The Memetics of QAnon as Dynamical System: A Historical and Forensic Analysis of Katz-Inspired Diffusion of pro-QAnon Sentiment Among Social media Micro-Influencers”
Hynek Jerabek, “Elihu Katz’s Journey From the ‘Two-Step Flow Report’ to ‘His Master’s Voice’: 65 Years of Opinion Leaders”
Elizabeth Dubois, “Strategic Personal Influence: From Political Opinion Leaders to Social Media Influencers”
Moderator: Amit Pinchevski
Sonia Livingstone
Monroe Price
Daniel Dayan (read by Julia Sonnevend)
Sharon Ringel
Paddy Scannell (read by Julia Sonnevend)
Michael Schudson