23.06.2025

CCS at ICA 2025 Denver

75th annual conference of the International Communication Association

From June 12 to 16, 2025, the CCS team actively participated in the 75th Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Denver, Colorado, USA. A total of six team members (Emese Domahidi, Jingyuan Yu, Anke Stoll, Max Schindler, Maximilian Zehring, Aliya Andrich) presented their current research work.

In addition, Jingyuan Yu and Emese Domahidi took on important roles as chair and discussant in several sessions.

A special highlight was the invitation to the (HYBRID) ICA@75 Theme Session: "Amplifying Diverse Voices and Increasing Societal Impact of Communication Research Through Podcasts". Emese Domahidi, Mario Haim and Jana Bernhard-Harrer presented their communication science podcast with a focus on computational methods and related topics:

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📚 Presentations of the CCS at the ICA 2025

The CCS team was involved in a total of 10 presentations:

  • Social Support in German-City-Centered Online Communities Max Schindler, Emese Domahidi

  • Far-Right Settlers on Telegram: Connections, Locations, and Communication Maximilian Zehring

  • The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022 Maximilian Zehring, Heidi Schulze, Kilian Buehling

  • A Comparative Analysis of Multilevel Government Crisis Communication in Seven Countries Jingyuan Yu, Emese Domahidi, Bengt Johansson, Nadine Steinmetz

  • Decomposing Politicians' Misinformation Sharing: A Comparative Analysis Across Four Countries on X Jingyuan Yu, Emese Domahidi, Duccio Gamannossi degl'Innocenti, Fabiana Zollo

  • Do Women Write More About Women? Investigating the Impact of Journalist Gender on the Media Visibility of U.S. Politicians Aliya Andrich, Marko Bachl, Emese Domahidi

  • Classification Bias of LLMs in Detecting Incivility Towards Female Politicians in German Social Media Discourse Anke Stoll, Jingyuan Yu, Aliya Andrich, Emese Domahidi

  • Who Decides What's Valuable? Investigating Bias in Comment Quality Classification Across Crowd Annotators With Different Levels of Formal Education Lena Wilms, Anke Stoll, Marc Ziegele

  • Enhancing Democratic Listening in Online Discussions: The Role of Reaction Buttons, Discussion Moderation, and Large Language Models Shota Gelovani, Philipp Müller, Hendrik Meyer, Anke Stoll, Louisa Pröschel, Marc Ziegele, Hartmut Wessler

  • Global Disparities in Communication Science: The Intersection of Latin American and International Research  Felipe Barreto de Souza Martins, Emese Domahidi

We are delighted with the strong presence and thematic diversity of the CCS team at ICA 2025 and look forward to upcoming conferences!