Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Tuesday, 16/Sept/2025
8:00am
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8:30am
Registration
Location: BAR/0I89/U
8:30am
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9:00am
Opening Remarks
Location: BAR/0I88/U
9:00am
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9:45am
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Andrew Gambino (University of Delaware, USA)
Location: BAR/0I88/U
Chair: Sven Engesser
"Meaningful, Complex, and Collaborative: Building Communication Theory in the Age of Generative AI"
9:45am
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10:00am
Coffee Break
Location: BAR/0I89/U
10:00am
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11:15am
Session 1: Institutional and Societal Perspectives on the Machine Actor
Location: BAR/0I88/U
Chair: Daniela Mahl
 

The materiality of HMC: Imagining sustainable AI infrastructures

Anne Mollen, Sigrid Kannengießer, Anastasia Glawatzki



Value Frictions: Competing Priorities in the Public and Private Governance of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Rebecca Scharlach, CJ Reynolds, Vasilisa Kuznetsova, Christian Katzenbach, Blake Hallinan



Negotiating norms of ChatGPT use: a cyclical perspective on the expanding appropriation of a generative AI chatbot among university students

Thilo von Pape, Angèle Devantéry, Veronika Karnowski, Étienne Yerly



Hesitation to Report: Understanding Why Bystanders and Victims Refrain from Reporting Offensive Content

Steliyana Doseva, Hannah Schmid-Petri



Building a Better World Through AI Journalism: Global Solutions from Gen Z

Aurora Alliegro, Elena Campo, Alexis von Mirbach

11:30am
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12:30pm
Session 2: Technological Perspectives on the Machine Actor
Location: BAR/0I88/U
Chair: Esther Greussing
 

Metacognitive Illusions – Rhetoric between AI Strategies and AI Literacies

Fabian Erhardt, Markus Gottschling



Talking machines, not saying anything, shaping communication: Reflecting on “artificial intelligence” and fake-human/human interactions

Annekatrin Bock



Are Bots More Biased Than Humans? Assessing Gender Stereotypes of Warmth and Competence in AI-Generated Ratings, Stories, and Images

Alexandra Wölfle, Desiree Schmuck



Social Bots in Online Climate Change Discourse: Evidence from COP27 Tweets

Junyi Han, Sonja Utz

12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm
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2:45pm
Session 3: Ontological Perspectives on the Machine Actors – Peculiarities in Classification
Location: BAR/0I88/U
Chair: Katharina Frehmann
 

Ontological Classification of Machine Agents: Patterns of Assimilation, Accommodation, and Non-Adaption

Katrin Etzrodt, Sven Engesser



Communicating with machines: Do we need a theory of the artificial mind?

Nicole Krämer



Perceiving the Unreal: How Disclosure of the Nonhumanness of Virtual Influencers Affects People’s Perceptions toward Them

Jihyun Kim, Patric Spence



Do Social Scripts Differ? Exploring Communication Style and Agency in Human-Human vs. Human-AI Chat Interactions

Jakob Henke, Franciska Nowak, Leyla Dogruel



Algorithmic Bias in Image-Generating AI: Detection and Reaction

Tanja Messingschlager, Markus Appel

2:45pm
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3:00pm
Coffee Break
Location: BAR/0I89/U
3:00pm
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4:30pm
Session 4: Ontological Perspectives on the Machine Actors – Impact of Classification
Location: BAR/0I88/U
Chair: Katrin Etzrodt
 

AI Writing Stories of Pride – Can Readers Experience Queer Perspectives Through AI-Generated Narratives?

Tanja Messingschlager, Sarah Tomiczek, Markus Appel



Chatbot or Scientist? Evaluating AI vs. Human Source Credibility in Digital Climate Communication

Shirley S. Ho, Chang He



Beauty and the Bot: Perceptions of Human and AI Fitness Influencers on Instagram

Chad Edwards, Autumn Edwards, Varun Rijhwani, Hamza Mostafa, Daniel Ebo, Dorcas Doku



Bot or Not? The Impact of Textual Imperfections on Students’ Perceptions of AI Humanness in Educational Forums

Patric Spence, Jihyun Kim, David Westerman



Talk, Listen, Connect: Navigating Empathy in Human-AI Interactions

Mahnaz Roshanaei, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Magy ElNasr



How Anthropomorphism and Belief in Positive Machine Heuristic Shape Perceived Privacy Risk and Disclosure Intention to Machines: A Moderated- Moderation Analysis

Shirley S. Ho, Junru Huang

4:45pm
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5:45pm
DigiKomm: Business Meeting (hybrid)
Location: BAR/0I88/U
6:30pm
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10:00pm
Conference Dinner
Location: Johann Restaurant & Elbe Lounge