ViRe members at #ICA19 Washington DC

• Post by: Petra Mazzoni
• June 12, 2019
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ViRe Members Katharina Lobinger and Rebecca Venema attended the annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) and successfully presented their work. ICA was held in Washington, DC from May 24-29, 2019.

Rebecca Venema organized the pre-conference “Crossing boundaries in visual communication research” which took place on May 24 at American University. She also got officially appointed Young Scholars Representative for the Visual Communication Studies division.

Her paper “Visuals and visibility in networked public spheres: The 2017 G20-protests, new avenues of policing and implications for visual communication research” also got awarded with the Top Student Paper Award of the Visual Communication Studies division. 

Together with her co-authors, Katharina Lobinger won the Top Faculty Paper award of the Visual Communication Studies division for the study “People only share videos they find interesting or funny.” Right-wing populism, humor and the fictionalization of politics. A case study on the Austrian Freedom Party’s  2017 online election campaign videos” which she conducted together with Cornelia Brantner (Institute for Knowledge Communication and Applied Research) and Daniel Pfurtscheller (University of Vienna). 

At ICA also her paper “Memefied memory and history in social media agitation: A multimodal analysis of memes by right-wing and left-wing online groups”, a work she did together with Anna Wagner (University of Augsburg), Christian Schwarzenegger (University of Augsburg) and Cornelia Brantner (Institute for Knowledge Communication and Applied Research), was presented.