The Annual ICA Conference took place in Gold Coast (Australia) from 20-24 June 2024, making it the 74rd ICA Conference. The Nordic Centre co-director Christoph Lutz presented his research in different sessions. Christoph was one of the co-organizers of a workshop at the Mobile Communication Preconference, which took place on 19 June, a day before the main conference started. The workshop was called “Appified care? Reflections towards a cultural and individual understanding of intimate surveillance across the lifespan in the age of mobile technologies”, with Julie Dereymaeker and Tom De Leyn (Gent University) serving as the main organizers.
Images from Christoph Lutz on LinkedIn.
On Friday 21 June, Christoph’s first presentation took place as part of the Communication and Technology division program, featuring the paper "Bits, Bytes, Badges of Honour: Assessing the Prestige and Social Value of Digital Economy Occupations”. The article is co-authored with Gemma Newlands (Oxford Internet Institute) and was in the meantime published in the Journal of Business Research (link to published paper).
On Saturday 22 June, Christoph chaired the session “The Purr-suit of Privacy: Understanding Online Privacy Behavior” in the Communication and Technology division by announcing the speakers, moderating the discussions, and keeping time.
On Sunday 23 June in the morning (Human-Machine Communication interest group), he presented the paper "A Technological Construction of Society? Comparing GPT-4 and Human Respondents for Occupational Evaluation in the UK", which is a collaboration with Pawel Gmyrek (International Labour Organization) and Gemma Newlands. The piece is out as a International Labour Organization working paper. On the same day in the 12.00pm session (Information Systems division), Christoph shared ongoing research entitled "Perceived Impacts of Short-Term Rental Platforms Based on Digital Inequality Theory: Contrasting the US and UK", where Mona Masoumi Dinan (Universitat Rovira in Virgili) is the lead author. Later in the afternoon and within the Communication and Technology division, Christoph presented the paper "Roaming in the Digital Age: A Temporal Analysis of Digital Nomads Through Liquid Modernity Theory.” This article is based on Yunhao Xiao's lead and was published a few months ago in the Journal of Travel Research (link to the published paper).
On Monday 24 June (Human-Machine Communication interest group), Christoph’s co-author Maria T. Soto Sanfiel (Maite) (National University of Singapore) presented the paper "The Artificial Intelligence Literacy Scale (AILS): Initial Scale Development", which is in co-authorship with Ariadna Angulo Brunet (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) as well. A pre-print version of this article is available on SocArXiv. In his final presentation of the conference, Christoph discussed the article "Inequalities in Privacy Cynicism: An Intersectional Analysis of Agency Constraints", co-authored with Christian Pieter Hoffman (Universität Leipzig) and Giulia Ranzini (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). This article has in the meantime been published in Big Data & Society.
The ICA Annual Conference convened around 3000 researchers from across the world and serves a key venue for disseminating cutting edge scholarship in the area as well as networking and community building. Next year’s ICA Conference will take place in Denver, Colorado, from 12-16 June 2025.
