Spotlight on 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 Multilingual and Multicultural Communication, ICA Political Communication 2013 Graduate Student Preconference, The Political Communication of Young Citizens through Social Media, Language and Engagement in Changing Forms of Public Interaction, Organizational Communication Division Doctoral Consortium: Expanding Your Scholarly Comfort Zone, Internationalizing Journalism Studies, The BRICS Nations: Between National Identity and Global Citizenship, and Audiences, Elsewhere? Reviewing the Applicability of Audiences and Audience Research to Those in Other Fields. To learn more information about these and other preconferences, visit https://www.icahdq.org/conf/2013/confdescriptions.asp.
Multilingual and Multicultural Communication
(Cosponsors: SOAS, IALSP (the International Association of Language and Social Psychology) and Mercator (the European Center on Multilingualism and Language Learning, Fryske Academy, the Netherlands))
Time: Monday, 17 June; 8:15 – 17:30
Location: Room V211, Vernon Square Campus, School of Oriental and African Studies, U of London
Cost: $35.00 USD Regular (50% discount for students)
Description: There has recently been an exponential increase in daily multilingual contacts in urban environments around the world; London is home to several hundred languages. Prominent researchers in this field will not only present their own work, but also roundtable with a view to crafting a testable interdisciplinary model of multilingual communication
Contact: Howard Giles (HowieGiles@cox.net) and/or consult IALSP website for any updates on the program: www.ialsp.org
ICA Political Communication 2013 Graduate Student Preconference
Time: Monday, 17 June; 8:30 – 16:00
Location: London School of Economics, London, UK
Cost: No Fee
Description: A preconference graduate workshop focused on providing guidance, feedback and professional socialization to political communication graduate students.
The preconference goals include providing guidance, feedback and professional socialization to political communication graduate students at the master's and doctoral levels, introducing graduate students to ICA and inviting them to take part in the academic discourse on political communication through ICA, and cultivating a network among young political communication scholars. To achieve these goals, the preconference will bring together a select group of graduate students working on political communication projects and provide them with the opportunity to present and discuss their projects in a constructive atmosphere.
Contact: Claes H. De Vreese (c.h.devreese@uva.nl)
The Political Communication of Young Citizens Through Social Media
Time: Monday, 17 June; 8:30 – 16:00
Location: Room STC.S75 on the ground floor of the St Clements Building. At the London School of Economics, U of London
Cost: $100 USD academic rate, $65 USD student rate
Description: This preconference explores the influence of social media communications technologies upon the participatory culture of young citizens. It brings together leading international communications scholars to examine the role of social media upon patterns of political socialization; the potential of social media to ameliorate young people’s political inequality; the use of social media communications for enhancing the civic education curriculum; and evidence for social media manifesting new forms of political engagement and participation by young citizens.
Contact: Brian Loader (brian.loader@york.ac.uk)
Language and Engagement in Changing Forms of Public Interaction
Time: Monday, 17 June; 8:30 – 17:00
Location: Hilton Metropole London Hilton
Cost: $95.00 USD
Description: This preconference bring together scholars interested in the discourse and language of political, mediated interaction and includes presentations by and discussions with the Ross Priory Broadcast Talk Group, a group of scholars who have been researching these issues for 20 years.
The preconference involves two kinds of sessions (1) panel presentations analyzing different facets of language/discourse in media and in political settings, and (2) smaller group discussions (15-20 people) that will involve viewing of selected media discourse segments accompanied by a transcript (i.e., data session). Panels will include a two-part panel exploring “Media Discourse and Changing Forms of Public Interaction,” and a third panel, titled “The Discourse of Public life.”
Contact: Karen Tracy (Karen.Tracy@colorado.edu)
Organizational Communication Division Doctoral Consortium: Expanding Your Scholarly Comfort Zone
Time: Monday, 17 June; 8:30 – 17:00
Location: Hilton Metropole London Hotel
Cost: $40.00 USD (for students)
Description: Every two years the division has sponsored its doctoral consortium to help socialize students as they move toward finishing their degrees. This full-day workshop brings together doctoral students and faculty to examine contemporary issues related to the development of our next generation of scholars. This is open to all doctoral students, but targeted toward more advanced students who are dissertating and/or who are about to finish coursework.
Contact: Craig Scott (crscott@rutgers.edu)
Internationalizing Journalism Studies
Time: Monday, 17 June; 8:30 – 12:30
Location: Rooms DLG03/DLG08, Social Sciences Building, Graduate School of Journalism, City U London
Cost: $50.00 USD
Description: Although Journalism Studies has matured rapidly as a scholarly field in recent years, the question of the attention it pays to its object of study globally remains a vexed one. Even the terminology of ‘internationalization’ is contested. The aim of this preconference, following on from the journalism extended session organized by Stephanie Craft in Phoenix, is to explore why and how Journalism Studies may become more routinely attuned to the multiplex nature of journalism through theorization and methodological practices. Its objective is to offer suggestions for enhancing the internationalization of the field through individual scholarship and institutional infrastructure.
Contact: Michael Stuart Bromley (Michael.bromley.1@city.ac.uk)
The BRICS Nations: Between National Identity and Global Citizenship
(Sponsors: Communication and Media Research Institute, U of Westminster, the Department of Communication and Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Georgia State U, Journalism and Social Development Research Center (JSDRC), School of Journalism and Communication, Remin U of China, and the Division of Global Communication and Social Change, ICA)
Time: Monday, 17 June; 8:45 – 18:00
Location: Regent Street Campus, U of Westminster, London
Cost: $65.00 USD
Description: This one-day preconference compares and contrasts the construction of national identities and global citizenship among five leading emerging economies—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa or the “BRICS” nations. It draws particular attention to the internal and external challenges and opportunities the five countries face in the process of construction and reconstruction of their national and global identities in the broader context of each nation's search for modernity, the rise of consumer culture and the digital environment. We aim to advance research regarding emerging nations by bringing together scholars who conduct interdisciplinary research with a comparative approach.
Contact: Hongmei Li (hli@gsu.edu)
Audiences, Elsewhere? Reviewing the Applicability of Audiences and Audience Research to Those in Other Fields
(Sponsored by COST Action IS0906, ECREA's Audience and Reception Studies section and ICA's Communication and Technology division)
Time: Monday, 17 June; 9:00 – 15:40
Location: Garendon Room, 4th Floor of the Charles Wilson building at the U of Leicester
Cost: $50.00 USD
Description: More than five decades after the appearance of audiences in communications research, this preconference asks, what if at all, the idea of audiences and insights from reception studies might imply for those in other fields. We ask - which insights need updating in the age of media convergence? How can audience research communicate itself better to researchers elsewhere?
For more information, visit http://audienceselsewhere.wordpress.com/.
Contact: Ranjana Das (rd207@le.ac.uk)