The Media Change & Innovation Division is featured in this year’s virtual European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) European Communication Conference. The conference theme is “Communication and Trust” and parallel sessions will take place from 7 to 9 September.

Wednesday, September 8th, 09:00 - 10:30, Room 23

In a Digital Culture and Communication session on vulnerabilities and inclusion, Kiran Kappeler will present research conducted with Noemi Festic and Michael Latzer on who remains offline and why in a highly digitized society based on long-term data from the World Internet Project – Switzerland.

Thursday, September 9th, 11:00 - 12:30, Room 4

Moritz Büchi will chair the Communication and Democracy session on participation and community and present a paper on conceptual and empirical advances in the chilling effects of dataveillance (co-authored by Noemi Festic and Michael Latzer) from the division’s new research project.