Popular Communication Call:
The Popular Communication Division provides a forum for scholarly investigation, analysis, and dialogue among communication researchers interested in popular communication and popular culture. The Division invites papers, panels, and roundtable proposals, from diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, that explore a wide range of artifacts, processes, meanings, effects and affects associated with the shaping of popular communication and popular culture. The division particularly values critical research that regards popular communication and popular culture as productive sites for the examination of everyday life, and modern/postmodern culture, society and economy. The Division welcomes research analysing cultural industries, texts, and audiences alike, as well as the role of technology in relation to them. Submissions that address the conference theme are particularly welcomed.
The following submission formats are permissible:
full papers (either for paper panels or the interactive paper session)
panel proposals and roundtable proposals.
Please note that the Popular Communication Division does not accept paper abstracts and extended paper abstracts.
Panel submissions must include the following:
- Official panel listing as it is to appear in the program
- A 400-word rationale for the panel
- A 150-word abstract for each of the papers on the panel followed by a description of the panelists' qualifications regarding the proposed topic Complete contact information for each panelist
- A 75-word description of the panel for the conference program.
- Panels should consist of 4 or 5 panelists (or 4 panelists and a respondent).
Panel organisers are invited to use the Division's discussion forum on the ICA website in seeking panelists (go to the list of ICA sections at http://www.icahdq.org/sections/sectioninfo.asp, click on "Popular Communication", and click on "Visit the Forum" on the far right of the screen).
Panels should aim to reflect and juxtapose different interregional, international, transnational, and global perspectives. Panels consisting entirely of panelists from a single department or institution are strongly discouraged.
Those seeking help in organising cross-divisional panel submissions as special theme sessions are invited to contact the Division Conference Programme Planner (and Division Vice-Chair), Jonathan Gray: jagray3@wisc.edu.
Questions? Contact:
Jonathan Gray
Dept of Communication Arts
U of Wisconsin, Madison
6117 Vilas Hall
821 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 263-2541
E-mail: jagray3@wisc.edu