Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
Date: Tuesday, 16/Sept/2025 | |
8:00am - 8:30am |
Registration Location: BAR/0I89/U |
8:30am - 9:00am |
Opening Remarks Location: BAR/0I88/U |
9:00am - 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 - 10:00am |
Coffee Break Location: BAR/0I89/U |
10:00am - 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 Value Frictions: Competing Priorities in the Public and Private Governance of Generative Artificial Intelligence Negotiating norms of ChatGPT use: a cyclical perspective on the expanding appropriation of a generative AI chatbot among university students Hesitation to Report: Understanding Why Bystanders and Victims Refrain from Reporting Offensive Content Building a Better World Through AI Journalism: Global Solutions from Gen Z |
11:30am - 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 Talking machines, not saying anything, shaping communication: Reflecting on “artificial intelligence” and fake-human/human interactions Are Bots More Biased Than Humans? Assessing Gender Stereotypes of Warmth and Competence in AI-Generated Ratings, Stories, and Images Social Bots in Online Climate Change Discourse: Evidence from COP27 Tweets |
12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch |
1:30pm - 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 Communicating with machines: Do we need a theory of the artificial mind? Perceiving the Unreal: How Disclosure of the Nonhumanness of Virtual Influencers Affects People’s Perceptions toward Them Do Social Scripts Differ? Exploring Communication Style and Agency in Human-Human vs. Human-AI Chat Interactions Algorithmic Bias in Image-Generating AI: Detection and Reaction |
2:45pm - 3:00pm |
Coffee Break Location: BAR/0I89/U |
3:00pm - 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? Chatbot or Scientist? Evaluating AI vs. Human Source Credibility in Digital Climate Communication Beauty and the Bot: Perceptions of Human and AI Fitness Influencers on Instagram Bot or Not? The Impact of Textual Imperfections on Students’ Perceptions of AI Humanness in Educational Forums Talk, Listen, Connect: Navigating Empathy in Human-AI Interactions How Anthropomorphism and Belief in Positive Machine Heuristic Shape Perceived Privacy Risk and Disclosure Intention to Machines: A Moderated- Moderation Analysis |
4:45pm - 5:45pm |
DigiKomm: Business Meeting (hybrid) Location: BAR/0I88/U |
6:30pm - 10:00pm |
Conference Dinner Location: Johann Restaurant & Elbe Lounge |