CivicTech Lab @the 2026 ICA Annual Conference

The CivicTech Lab is Going to ICA Annual Conference 2026! 4–8 June 2026 | Cape Town, South Africa

We are proud to contribute to ICA26 through a keynote panel, an invited panel, and three paper presentations exploring online activism, digital environmentalism, platform cultures, and public discourse. Thanks go to our collaborators Prof. Jun Liu, Prof. Hong Yu (Zhejiang U), Prof. Yu Sun, Prof. Lin Zhang (University of New Hampshire), Dr. Huailin Mu (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), Mr. Yongxu Lu (Chinese U of Science and Technology) and Dr. Zhicong Chen.

Highlights from ICA 2026 include:

• Keynote Panel – “Whose Protest Counts? Power and Exclusion in Online Activism.” • Preconference Paper – “Tracing the Evolution of Environmental Publics in Digital Environmentalism and Non-Confrontational Activism.” • Invited Panel – “Mapping Platform Asia: A Collaborative Inquiry Into Global Digital Futures.” • Paper – “The Intermediary Power of Transpositioning: How MCNs ‘Translate’ Cultural Content From Chinese Platforms to Overseas Platforms.” • Paper – “Hyping Novel Food: Comparing Public Expectations on Facebook and Weibo.”

Grateful for the opportunity to exchange ideas and engage with scholars worldwide at ICA2026.