CoCoDigi research group is participating in the 76th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference will be held from June 4 to June 8, 2026. You can find CoCoDigi’s members at the following conference sessions:
Paper session: Networks, digitalization and datafication in organizational communication research
- Date: Fri, June 5
- Time: 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
- Location: de Gama (Westin, Old Harbour Level)
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen will chair the session.
Ward van Zoonen and Anu Sivunen (2026) will present their paper: From disconnection to display: How isolation transforms the way we express ourselves at work.
Ward Van Zoonen will also present his and CoCoDigi’s international collaborator Jeffrey Treem’s (2026) paper: From being watched to working the numbers: Dataveillance and the consequences of data crafting.
Research escalator session: Organizational communication research escalator
- Date: Fri, June 5
- Time: 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM
- Location: Westin Ballroom West (Westin, Old Harbour Level)
Ward van Zoonen is serving as the co-organizer of the session.
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Kaisa Lindholm and Anu Sivunen will serve as discussants.
Ryan Morgan will present his, Rasa Jämsen’s, and Matti Laukkarinen’s (2026) paper: Timing control: How orders of worth structure the temporal legitimacy of workplace monitoring.
Miikka Huhta (2026) will present his paper: Leading AI adoption at work: A communicative constitution of organizations investigation of the organization’s leaders of AI adoption.
Panel session: Audiences’ practices, repertoires and effects: Evidence from Brazil, Britain, Finland, Singapore, and the United States
- Date: Sat, June 6
- Time: 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM
- Location: 2.41-2.43 (CTICC1, Lev 2)
Pinja Päivänen will present her, Minna Koivula’s and Mikko Villi’s (2026) paper:The chase after the paying subscriber: How data shapes journalism’s institutional logics.
Paper session: Emerging technologies and artificial intelligence in organizational communication
- Date: Sat, June 6
- Time: 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM
- Location: 1.62 (CTICC1, Lev 1)
Ward van Zoonen will present his and Rasa Jämsen’s (2026) paper: Too much or too fragmented: Communication overload, technology switching and attention allocation.
Ward Van Zoonen will also present his and CoCoDigi’s international collaborator Ronald Rice’s (2026) paper: Stochastic parrots and human projection: Fabrication and mistrust in the age of generative AI.
Paper session: A communicative approach to organizing, resistance and control
- Date: Sat, June 6
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
- Location: 2.65-2.66 (CTICC1, Lev 2)
Kaisa Lindholm will present her, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen’s and Erjon Skenderi’s (2026) paper: Replaying the past: Linking as a constitutive practice of social remembering in platformed organizing.
Join one or more of these sessions and come listen, discuss, and learn about CoCoDigi’s interesting and timely research!
The Annual ICA conference is a five-day scientific event that brings together around 3,000 researchers from all around the world. The conference features over 400 presentations representing the latest research in the field of communication science. The theme of the ICA 2026 conference is “Communication and Inequalities in Context”. You can read more about the conference here.
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