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AlterPublics at ICA 2024 in Gold Coast, Australia

AlterPublics presented new research on alternative news media, cross-platform sharing networks, and audience practices at the Annual ICA Conference in Gold Coast, Australia.
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    • Picture of Jakob Bæk Kristensen receiving a best paper award. In front, seven people with their backs to the camera, one of them standing to the left to take a photo of the prize winner and the person who hands him the award. These two are facing the photo-taker. In the back a person standing behind a lectern.
    By: Leif Pedersen

    Over the last couple of days, the AlterPublics team participated in the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Gold Coast, Australia, presenting ongoing work and exchanging ideas with international colleagues across the field. 

    At the conference, Frederik Henriksen presented his final PhD paper, “From far-right to anti-system” in the Political Communication division. Jakob Bæk Kristensen presented a paper on computational approaches to studying news and information flows across platforms at the Computational Methods division. 

    We were also happy to see our incoming postdoc Salla Tuomola present research on news exposure and affective practices, bringing a complementary audience-oriented perspective to discussions of alternative and politicized information environments at the Journalism division. 

    ICA provided a valuable setting for feedback, networking, and strengthening collaborations around shared conceptual and methodological challenges in the study of alternative news media and digital publics.