International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference
The Nordic Center for Internet and Society members Christoph Lutz, Sut I Wong and Yunhao (Mattew) Xiao presented their research at the International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference, held in Denver, Colorado, from 12–16 June 2025.
The Annual ICA Conference took place in Denver, Colorado from 12-16 June 2025, making it the 75th ICA Conference. This year marked a milestone that celebrated ICA’s long-standing role in advancing communication scholarship worldwide. The conference theme, “ICA@75: Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research,” invited participants to critically reflect on the evolution of communication studies as a discipline and ICA’s role as both an agent and site of disciplinary development.
On Thursday 12 June, Christoph presented “LLM Narratives of the Occupational Landscape: Spotlighting the World of Work through AI”, co-authored with Ying Guo (BI), Pawel Gmyrek, and Gemma Newlands at the Human-Machine Communication Preconference.
On Friday 13 June, Sut I presented “Autonomy in Distributed Teams: The Moderating Roles of Leader Role Clarity and Daily Team Communication” in the session “Social and Imagined Interactions Across Face-to-Face, Group, and Digitally Mediated Spaces” (Interpersonal Communication Division). The paper was co-authored with Suzanne van Gils and Matej Černe.
On Saturday 14 June, Christoph contributed to three exciting sessions during the day:
- Moderated the panel “Building Bridges in Privacy Research: Comparative Perspectives and Collaborative Insights” (CAT Division), featuring Renwen Zhang, Debjani Chakraborty, Dmitry Epstein, Philipp K. Masur & Kelly Quinn (joint paper), and Mora Matassi, with Sonia Livingstone as discussant.
- Presented “Is Bias a Boundary Object in Artificial Intelligence Research?” (Information Systems Division), co-authored with Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, Amir Karami, Patrick Conway, and Ali Memariani.
- Presented “‘Lone Wolves?’: An Exploration of Digital Nomads’ Romantic Relationships” (CAT Division), co-authored with Cristina Miguel Martos, Yunhao Xiao, Filip Majetić, and Rodrigo Perez-Vega.
On Sunday 15 June, Matthew (Yunhao) presented “Internal Communication as A Dynamic Capability: Envisioning Future Organization-Digital Nomad-Technology Relationship” in the session “Organizational Communication Research Escalator” (Organizational Communication Division).
On Monday 16 June, Christoph presented “Are You Relying on Artificial Intelligence Too Much? Exploratory Insights on Overtrust in AI”, co-authored with Aurelia Tamo-Larrieux, Gemma Newlands, and Shubin Yu in the Human-Machine Communication Division.
The five-day event brought together around 3,000 researchers from across the globe, featuring more than 400 presentations that showcased the latest advances in communication research. Next year’s ICA Conference will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 4-8 June 2026.