2025
Human-machine agency in multimodal co-production with generative AI [research talk]. Discourse and Communication Research Group, University of Groningen, 11 March 2025. [slides]
Artificial witness: generative AI and the visual politics of war representation [research talk]. Digital Society Research Group, Manchester Metropolitan University, 21 January 2025. [slides] · [references]
An examination of visual style through Midjourney user prompting practices | Imagining visual style: prompts, products, and practice as discursive layers of AI image generation. Forthcoming in: ADDA 5: approaches to digital discourse analysis 5, Tilburg, Netherlands, 21–23 May 2025.
Laba N, Roman N, Parmelee J (forthcoming) Synthetic images of war: A corpus study of AI images across three visual generative media platforms. In: The 75th annual International Communication Association conference: disrupting and consolidating communication research, Denver, USA, 12–16 June 2025.
2024
From text to video: examining the effects of prompt modifiers on AI video generation. In: International Conference of the DGPuK (German Communication Association) Visual Communication Section: generative images – generative imageries: challenges of visual communication (research) in the age of AI, Bremen, Germany, 20–22 November 2024. [slides] · [references]
AI vs artists: training data, creative economy, and public opinion about visual generative AI. In: International Conference of the DGPuK (German Communication Association) Visual Communication Section: generative images – generative imageries: challenges of visual communication (research) in the age of AI, Bremen, Germany, 20–22 November 2024. [slides] · [references]
Ways of seeing: AI image generators and socio-technical future(s) – a critical social semiotic perspective. In: The 74th annual International Communication Association conference: communication and global human rights, Gold Coast, Australia, 20–24 June 2024.
2023
What do images on institutional websites tell us about the web identities of Australian universities? In: The 73rd annual International Communication Association conference: reclaiming authenticity in communication. Toronto, Canada, 25–29 May 2023.
2022
Organizational identity design: The evolution of a university web homepage. In: The 31st European Systemic Functional Linguistics conference: social semiotics and sustainability. Odense, Denmark, 24–26 August 2022.
2021
Branding by design: a hybrid methods paradigm for analyzing multimodal web documents. In: 10ICOM international conference on multimodality: multimodality for transformation. Valparaíso, Chile, 23–27 August 2021.
Towards multimodal genre analysis of web homepages. In: The 2021 Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association conference: impact: research, education, industry. Brisbane, Australia, 29 September–1 October 2021.
2019
Multimodal discourse of hypermodal web pages: a semiotic landscape of the enterprise university. In: Multimodal research 2019 – international conference. Auckland, New Zealand, 8–11 December 2019.
Laba N (2024, January 5) In: Morton A and Maud S (hosts), Unreliable Renaissance: Endjourney (no. 3), Chat G – Navigating the future of AI, one thought at a time [audio podcast]. https://open.spotify.com/show/32bpTznVDsbJMuifZYeRGZ.
Laba N (2023, October 20) In: The Fingertip War: Digital Media and Participatory Warfare, a documentary project in MECO2602 Media Production [video].
Laba N (2023, July 6) In: Threads Takes on Twitter | SBS On the Money, an interview for Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Australia [video].