Conference Presentations
Upcoming Presentations
Crown to Cuff: Examining Public Service Media ‘Arm’s Length
Sydney L. Forde & Des Freedman
Accepted for presentation at RIPE PSM 2024 conference in Lisbon, Portugal. (May, 2024)
Placing Political Economy: An Inter-Divisional Assessment of the Critical Approach at ICA
Christopher Ali, Sydney L. Forde, Robin Mansell, Victor Pickard, Pawel Popiel & Emily West
Interdivisional Panel accepted in Philosophy, Theory and Critique division, Media Industry Studies division, Communication Law and Policy division, and the History division at ICA in Gold Coast, Australia. (June, 2024)
The 50 Shades of Research Capture: Assessing Big Tech Funding of Academic Research on Digital Platforms
Pawel Popiel, Hendrik Theine & Sydney L. Forde
Accepted for presentation in the Communication Law and Policy division at ICA in Gold Coast, Australia. (June, 2024)
APTS & ATSC 3.0: The Politics of US Public Media Lobbying
Sydney L. Forde & Christopher Ali
Accepted for presentation at RIPE PSM 2024 conference in Lisbon, Portugal. (May, 2024)
NextGenTV? The implications of ATSC 3.0 adoption for US public broadcasters
Christopher Ali & Sydney L. Forde
Accepted for presentation in the Communication Law and Policy division at ICA in Gold Coast, Australia. (June, 2024)
*Division top paper panel
Research Capture: Assessing Big Tech Funding of Academic Research on Digital Platforms
Hendrik Theine, Sydney L. Forde & Pawel Popiel
Accepted for presentation in the Political Economy section at IAMCR in Christchurch, New Zealand. (July, 2024)
Exempting Democracy: An Examination of Market Ontology through Two Journalism Antitrust Exemption Acts
Sydney L. Forde
Presented at the Local Journalism Researchers Workshop hosted by Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and Hussman School of Journalism and Media at UNC (March, 2024)
Photo: Ryan Wang
Public broadcasters as digital intermediaries: The adoption of ATSC 3.0 in the United States.
Christopher Ali & Sydney L. Forde
Presented at the workshop for Communication Law and Policy (CLP) section of ECREA in Salzburg, Austria (November, 2023)
Photo: Chris Ali
The Pennsylvania Institute for Broadband Policy & Digital Equity
Christopher Ali, David Elliot Berman, Sydney L. Forde, Sascha Meinrath & Victor Pickard
Panel presented at the Union for Democratic Communications in Philadelphia, PA. (October, 2023)
Photo: Yasemin Beykont
When Audience Commodities Collide: Super Bowl Advertising in Canada
Sydney L. Forde, Yasemin Beykont & Matthew P. McAllister
Presented at the Union for Democratic Communications in Philadelphia, PA. (October, 2023)
Photo: Chris Ali
“I hate him passionately”: A Propaganda Analysis of Fox News January 6th Coverage and Dominion v. Fox Contradictions
Lana Medina & Sydney L. Forde
Presented in the Cultural and Critical Studies Division at AEJMC in Washington, DC. (August, 2023)
Photo: Joseph Jones
Digital Disregard: A Case for Amending Quebec’s Children Advertising Legislation
Sydney L. Forde, Erika Solis & Yasemin Beykont
Presented at the Canadian Communication Association (CCA) hosted by York University in Toronto, ON (June, 2023)
*Received CRTC PhD Prize for Excellence in Policy Research
Photo: Yasemin Beykont
From Broadcast to Broadband: Similarities and Silences between
Clinton’s Telecommunications Act of 1996 and Biden’s 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Sydney L. Forde & Matthew F. Jordan
Presented in the Law and Policy Division at the 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference in Toronto, Ontario. (May, 2023)
Photo: Pawel Popiel
Regulatory Theory and Media Economics: Complicating Peltzman’s Economic Model of Regulation in Media Industries
Sydney L. Forde
Presented in the Economics, Communication and Society division at the 2022 annual National Communication Association in New Orleans, Louisiana (November, 2022)
*Division top paper award
Photo: Matthew P. McAllister
The Racialized Celebrity Other in Perfume Advertisements
Matthew P. McAllister, Yasemin Beykont & Sydney L. Forde
Presented in the Minorities and Communication division at AEJMC in Detroit, Michigan (August, 2022)
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Ontario’s Right-Wing Populism “Will Cost You”: The Applicability of
Propaganda Analysis to Ford’s Sticker Act
Sydney L. Forde
Presented in the Political Communication Division at IAMCR conference, Nairobi - Online due to Covid-19 (July, 2021)
Photo: Jonas Nicolai
Contradictions of Liberalism: Examining the CONNECT Broadband Act through Hayek and Friedman
Sydney L. Forde
Presented in the Economics, Communication and Society Division at the NCA 109th Annual Convention in National Harbor, MD (November, 2023)
*Division top paper panel
Photo: Maranda Goke
Research Capture: Assessing Big Tech Funding of Academic Research on Digital Platforms
Sydney L. Forde, Hendrik Theine, & Pawel Popiel
Presented at Heterodox Economics Meets Law and Political Economy: Institutions and Power Workshop at The New School in New York City, NY. (October, 2023)
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Public Broadband and the New Municipalism: Toward a Politics of Radical Digital Infrastructure
David Elliot Berman & Sydney L. Forde
Presented at the Union for Democratic Communications in Philadelphia, PA. (October, 2023)
Photo: Yasemin Beykont
The Politics of Broadband Policy: The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Battle for Digital Equity
Christopher Ali, David Elliot Berman, Sydney L. Forde, Sascha Meinrath & Victor Pickard
Presented at TPRC 51, at American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC. (September, 2023)
Photo: James Neal
Dear Earth, No Thanks: How YouTube's Embrace of Neoliberal Environmentalism Impedes Meaningful Climate Progress
Sydney L. Forde & Cassandra Troy
Presented in the Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group at IAMCR in Lyon, France. (July, 2023)
Photo: Hendrik Theine
Global Growth of Streaming Services and Regulatory Implications: A Political Economy Perspective.
Sydney L. Forde & Robert G. Picard
Presented in the Law and Policy Division at the 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference in Toronto, Ontario. (May, 2023)
Photo: Yasemin Beykont
bell hooks' “Eating the Other” as a
Framework for Critical Advertising Studies
Matthew P. McAllister, Sydney L. Forde & Yasemin Beykont
Presented in the Critical and Cultural Studies division at the 2022 annual National Communication Association in New Orleans, Louisiana (November, 2022)
*Division top paper panel
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Rethinking Peltzman’s Economic Model of Regulation Through Ownership Consolidation and Digitized Media Communication Landscapes
Sydney L. Forde
Presented at TPRC 50, at American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC (September, 2022)
Photo: Yasemin Beykont
Predictors of support for public
funding of news organizations: Findings from a 23-country cross-national study
Sydney L. Forde, Ryan Wang, Erika Solis & Krishna Jayakar
Presented in the Media Industry Studies division at the 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference. Paris, France. (May, 2022)
Photo: Magdalayna Drivas
Selected Past Presentations
Representation in the Era of Decolonization: A Discourse
Analysis of Media and Communication Doctoral Syllabi
Brittany Melton & Sydney L. Forde
Presented at the annual Canadian Congress in the Canadian Communication Association Conference - online due to Covid-19 (May, 2022)
From “Quelling Unrest” To
“Unleashing Militarized Crackdown”: The Role of “Journalistic Reuse” in Digital News Updates
Robert E. Gutsche, Sydney L. Forde & Juliet Pinto
Presented at the Future of Journalism Conference in Cardiff, Wales, UK - online due to Covid-19 (September, 2021)
The Times, Are They Changing?: An Analysis of New York Times Online (Revisionist) Updates of Police and Protestors
Sydney L. Forde, Robert E. Gutsche & Juliet Pinto
Presented in Journalism Studies Division at the 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference - online due to Covid-19 (May, 2021)
UnFoxing Market Failure
Sydney L. Forde
Presented at the Moscow
Readings Conference in Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia - online due to Covid-19 (November, 2021)
Metabolism versus Energy: Gender Representation in
Multivitamin Packaging
Sydney L. Forde & Brittany Melton
Presented at the annual Canadian Congress in the Canadian Communication Association Conference hosted by the University of Alberta - online due to Covid-19 (June, 2021)
Diverging Media: US and Canadian Representations of Immigrants and
Refugees
Sydney L. Forde
Presented at Canadian Communication Association hosted by the University of British Colombia in Vancouver, British Colombia (May, 2019)