Highlighting ICA Preconferences
In each Newsletter leading up to the conference, we will highlight eight different preconferences and postconferences that have been planned for London. This month, learn more about the "Objects of Journalism: Media, Materiality, and the News," "Exploring and Remaking Critical Studies of Advertising," The Power of Play: Motivational Uses and Applications," "4th Annual Doctoral Consortium of the Communication and Technology Division," "Communication Science – Evolution, Biology, and Brains: Innovation in Theory and Methods," "New Media and Citizenship in Asia: Researching the Practices, Functions, and Effects of the New Media in Asian Politics," "Teaching CAM: Pedagogical Issues and Practical Strategies for Sharing Theory and Research Related to Children, Adolescents and Media," and "Global Media Ethics: Problems and Perspectives."
To learn more information about these and other preconferences, visit https://www.icahdq.org/conf/2013/confdescriptions.asp.
The Objects of Journalism: Media, Materiality, and the News
(Cosponsors: Journalism Studies Division, Communication History Division, Two-Knight Center (CUNY), and ReSIC (ULB))
Time: Monday, 17 June; 8:30 – 17:00
Location: the Frontline Club, London, UK
Cost: $35.00 USD
Description: The preconference aims at looking at the role of actual, material things in the journalism production process. It is an effort towards fully embodying, in a sociohistorical perspective, a vast set of heterogeneous objects that were or are enrolled in the making of the news: from the carrier-pigeon to algorithms, from typewriters to robot-journalism. It requires us to think afresh about the ontology, methods and fields of investigation of journalism studies.
*Visit this preconference blog for more details: http://objectsofjournalism.wordpress.com/
Contact: Juliette De Maeyer (Juliette.du.maeyer@ulb.ac.be) and C.W. Anderson (Christopher.anderson@csi.cuny.edu)
Exploring and Remaking Critical Studies of Advertising
Time: Monday, 17 June; 8:45 – 16:00
Location: Hilton London Metropole Hotel
Cost: $10.00 USD
Description: This preconference program assesses and reformulates approaches to the critical study of advertising in society. Many established approaches are premised upon highly centralized, professionalized and routinized advertising and media systems. Current practices emerging from digitization and a host of social, political, economic, and cultural developments outstrip the reach of traditional modes of critique. This program probes the historicity of traditional critiques of advertising, and explores approaches with a better fit to current historical conditions.
Contact: James Hamilton (Hamilton@uga.edu)
The Power of Play: Motivational Uses and Applications
(Cosponsors: Annenberg School of Communication-U of Southern California, Brian Lamb School of Communication-Purdue U, Department of Communication Studies-Northwestern U School of Communication, ERC Project SOFOGA / Thorsten Quand- Westfälische Wilhelms-U Münster, and Telecommunication Information Studies and Media-Michigan State U)
Time: Monday, 17 June; 9:00 – 16:30
Location: Hilton Metropole London Hotel
Cost: $50.00 USD
Description: The goal of the preconference, “The Power of Play,” is to shed light on the motivational aspects of digital games and gameplay, how they relate to the ways in which games are used for entertainment and other purposes, the domains in which they are applied, the challenges in their design and application, and the ways in which they are studied.
Contact: Zeynep Tanes-Ehle (tanesz@duq.edu)
James D. Ivory (jivory@vt.edu)
Thorsten Quandt (thorsten.quandt@uni-muenster.de)
Jan Van Looy (J.VanLooy@ugent.be)
Rabindra A. Ratan (raratan@gmail.com)
Amy Shirong Lu (amylu@northwestern.edu)
Mathias Crawford (mathiasc@stanford.edu)
4th Annual Doctoral Consortium of the Communication and Technology Division
Time: Monday, 17 June; 9:00 – 17:00
Location: Hilton Metropole London Hilton
Cost: $75.00 USD
Description: The consortium brings together PhD candidates working on Communication and Technology to give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The goals of the event are to provide feedback and advice to participating PhD candidates on their in-progress research thesis.
Contact: Miriam Metzger (metzger@comm.ucsb.edu)
Communication Science – Evolution, Biology, and Brains: Innovation in Theory and Methods
(Cosponsored by Mass Communication Division- David Tewksbury & René Weber, Information Systems Division- Elly Konijn & David Prabu, Communication and Technology Division- Kwan Min Lee & James Danowski, and the U of Michigan-Department of Communication Studies)
Time: Monday, 17 June; 9:00 – 17:00
Location: Hilton London Metropole Hotel
Cost: Undergraduate and doctoral students: $45.00 USD; Faculty: $85.00 USD
Description: The goal of this preconference is to bring together scholars who are working across subfields of communication studies using evolutionary theory, neuroscience and other biological measures to address core questions in communication studies.
*For more information about the preconference, please visit: http://cn.isr.umich.edu/ica2013 and/or http://www.medianeuroscience.org/conference_presentations_ica_2013.
Contact: Emily Falk (ebfalk@umich.edu)
New Media and Citizenship in Asia: Researching the Practices, Functions, and Effects of the New Media in Asian Politics
(Cosponsors: U of Michigan, Nanyang Technological U, Academy of Korean Studies, and ICA Political Communication Division)
Time: Monday, 17 June; 9:00 – 17:30
Location: Hilton Metropole London Hotel
Cost: $100.00 USD
Description: This preconference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining various subjects concerning the role of social media, mobile phones, and other new communication technologies in the formation of democratic citizenship writ large—in Asia. In particular, the preconference welcomes research on recent national elections in Asian countries, which present a theory-driven analysis of the role of social media in real-world, offline civic and political action.
Contact: Nojin Kwak (kwak@umich.edu)
Teaching CAM: Pedagogical Issues and Practical Strategies for Sharing Theory and Research Related to Children, Adolescents and Media(Sponsored by Children, Adolescents & Media Division)
Time: Monday, 17 June; 9:30 – 12:30 (half-day workshop)
Location: Hilton Metropole London Hotel
Cost: $50.00 USD
Description: "Teaching CAM" is an interactive workshop for scholars who communicate in the children, adolescents and media arena. CAM members have volunteered to share their pedagogical “best practices” for teaching and learning in the field. Teaching CAM will tackle key topics with short presentations and question and answer sessions. Registered preconference participants will receive a resource packet of syllabi and assignments that can be useful supplements for teaching and outreach.
Contact: Amy B. Jordan (ajordan@asc.upenn.edu)
Global Media Ethics: Problems and Perspectives
Time: Monday, June 17; 13:00-16:00 (half-day preconference)
Location: City U, London, UK
Cost: $25.00 USD
Description: The preconference will examine key issues in the emerging field of global media ethics through a number of panels featuring leading scholars and journalists. Global scholars will explore such issues as universals across media systems, new principles and practices for global media, and media coverage of global issues from immigration to climate change.
Contact: Stephen J. A. Ward (sjward2@wisc.edu)