ICA 2007 PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

Participation in a workshop requires that the registration fee be paid in advance

PRECONFERENCE #1

Joint Preconference of the ICA Philosophy of Communication, Intercultural/Development Communication, and the Public Relations Divisions; and the Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School of Communication, U of Pennsylvania.

Title:      Methodologies of Comparative Media Research in a Global Sphere:  Paradigms-Critique-Methods

Time:     Wednesday, May 23 and Thursday, May 24, 2007, 8:15 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Limit:     120 persons

Cost:      Members:  $130.00 USD

            (Includes refreshments)

Media and communication studies are in the process of transformation. Global or international communication delivered through satellite and Internet redefine conventional concepts of media, of the mass audience, of gatekeeping and agenda setting, of power, and of communication itself. It is timely to address methodological issues in this increasingly worldwide research context.

This preconference will provide a broad platform for the discussion of new emerging paradigms, approaches and parameters relevant to today’s globalized research terrains.

Wednesday. May 23

8:15 – 9:00 a.m.     Registration / Light Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.       Welcome

9:15 - 9:30 a.m.       Opening Remarks

Media Research in a Globalized Sphere: Parameters and Visions

Ingrid Volkmer, U of Melbourne, Australia    

9:30 – 10:15 a.m.     Keynote

Can Media Research Cope with Glocalization? Reflections on Global Challenges and Local Applications

Cees Hamelink, U of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

10:15 – 10:45 a.m.    Coffee Break

Mapping the Globalized Space

10:45 – 11:15 a.m.    Marwan Kraidy, American U, Washington, DC

What in the World is Global Media Studies ?

11:15 – 11:45 a.m.    Joe Straubhaar,  U of Texas, Austin

Multiple Television Flows for Multilayered Cultural Identities ?

11.45a.m. – 12:15p.m.   Patricia Aufderheide / Katja Wittke, American U, Washington, DC

Mapping Global Publics in Open Media: Claims and Connections Online

12:15 – 1:15 p.m.   Lunch

Comparing Media Flows; Experiences and Practices

1:15 – 1:45 p.m.  Akiba Cohen, Tel Aviv U / Ven-Hwei Lo, National Chengchi U, Teipei, Taiwan

Comparative Research on Television Foreign News

1:45 – 2:15 p.m.  Frank Esser,  U of Zuerich / Barbara Pfetsch, U of Hohenheim/HarvardU

Conceptual Challenges to the Paradigms of Comparative Political Communication in a Globalized World

2:15 – 2:45 p.m.  Lothar Mikos / Claudia Toepper, U of Film and Television, Potsdam, Germany

Challenges of Comparative Media Research – Report of Two Empirical Studies

2:45 – 3:00 p.m.  Coffee Break                                                                                                        

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.  Methodologies of Comparison in Different Contexts

   4.30 – 4.45                                           Coffee Break                                                                        

  4.45 – 6.15                                            Panels continue

6:30 p.m.  Reception

Sponsored by the Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, U of Pennsylvania

Thursday, May 24

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.   Research Funding in a Globalized Context:

invited speakers:

Stefaan Verhulst, Chief of Research, Markle Foundation, New York, USA

Joe Karaganis, Program Director, Social Science Research Council, New York, USA

Becky Lentz, Ford Foundation, New York, USA

Consequences for Comparative Research                                                                                                                                                     

10:45 – 11:15 a.m.  Donnalyn Pompper,  Florida State U /  Edward Lee, Leeds Business School, UK

Researcher-Researched ‘Difference’: In Search for Validity in the Global Sphere

11:15 – 11:45 p.m.  Thomas Hanitzsch, / Thorsten Quandt, Ludwigs-Maximilian , U, Munich

Comparative Worlds of Journalism: Methodological Case Studies

l1:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.  Andreas. Hepp, U of Bremen, Germany

Transcultural Media Research: Perspectives for Comparative Media and Cultural Studies in Times of Globalization                                                        

12:15 – 12:45 p.m.    Susan Holmberg, Mid-Sweden U, Sundsvall, Sweden

Experiences, Lessons from a Pan-European Media Content Study            

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.  Lunch

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.  Media Industry and Comparative Media Research:

(panel with media industry representatives)

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.  Conclusion:

Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Intercultural Communication

Betteke van Ruler, Public Relations

Monroe Price, Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, U of Pennsylvania, USA

Ingrid Volkmer, Philosophy of Communication

PRECONFERENCE #2

***NOTE:  This preconference workshop is NOT in the Hilton Hotel *** 

The preconference is a joint effort by the Graduate School of Education, U of Californis, Berkeley, the international research project ‘Mediatized Stories: Mediation Perspectives on Digital Storytelling Among Youth’ www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/ based at the U of Oslo, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation, Queensland U of Technology, Australia www.cci.edu.au, and the Popular Communication and Communication and Technology Divisions

Title:      Digital Storytelling: Critical Accounts of a Californian Export

Time:     Thursday, May 24, 2007, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm U of California, Berkeley campus, Tolman Hall

Limit:     35 persons

Cost:      Members:  $30.00 USD  (includes refreshments and lunch).

Student members of the Popular Communication division wishing to take part in the preconference could apply by a letter to the division chair, Professor Lynn Schofield Clark (Lynn.Clark@du.edu) by February 15, for need-based travel grants of $300. Indicate need and any other sources of support for the conference attendance, and attach a CV.

Transport:  Guided transport to the site at U of California, Berkeley departs from the ICA Hilton conference hotel in San Francisco at 9:00 am on May 24th. Transport will be by the metro (BART). The venue at U of California, Berkeley, Tolman Hall (room 2515), is close to the Berkeley BART station on the line from downtown San Francisco. The participants pay their own BART tickets ($6.50 USD roundtrip).

                                               
Digital Storytelling is evolving as a participatory media practice around the globe. Individuals in a variety of institutional settings tell short, self-representational stories with standard digital equipment. These personal narratives are usually made with self-sourced images and told with the own voice.

Although there are many forms of digital storytelling, this pre-conference takes as its point of departure the approach that was developed at the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley from the early 1990s (www.storycenter.org).

Their ideas of Digital Storytelling have spread throughout the world. Why has this Californian export become so popular? Which further-developing forms of digital storytelling should be observed? What are the broader meanings, the textual characteristics, its democratic and participatory potential, and future developments of digital storytelling? How could digital storytelling be understood as mediation practices and to which extent could it contribute to media literacy? Such questions deserve critical and constructive scholarly interest.

The preconference will trace the roots and the take-up of the Digital Storytelling movement, and raise research questions from three different corners of the world: from the ICA host state of California, from Europe and from Australia.

Schedule:
10:10–10:25 a.m. Introduction by Knut Lundby, U of Oslo, and Glynda Hull, U of California, Berkeley.

The Spread of Digital Storytelling:
10:25–11:00 a.m. ‘The Story of Digital Storytelling’. Joe Lambert, Center for Digital Storytelling, U of   California, Berkeley, US.

11:00–11:10 a.m. Coffee

11:10–11:35 a.m. ‘A Critical Account of Digital Storytelling as it Appeared in Britain’. Nancy Thumim, London School of Economics & Political Science, UK.
11:35 a.m.–12:00 p.m. ’Digital Storytelling in Australia and Beyond’. Kelly McWilliam, Queensland U of Technology, Australia.

12:00–1:00 p.m. Lunch

Reflections on Digital Storytelling:
1:00–1:25 p.m. ‘Taking, and Mistaking, the Show on the Road: Multimedia Self-Presentation and Social Transaction’. Glynda Hull and Mark Nelson, U of California, Berkeley, US.
1:25–1:50 p.m. ‘Mediatized Stories: Autobiography and Authenticity in Digital Storytelling’. Birgit Hertzberg Kaare and Knut Lundby, U of Oslo, Norway.
1:50–2:15 p.m. ‘The Problems of Expertise and Scalability in Self-Made Media: Lessons from Digital Storytelling in Australia’. John Hartley, Queensland U of Technology, Australia

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2:15–2:25 p.m. Coffee

2:25–3:00 p.m. Future directions – Concluding discussion: Kirsten Drotner, U of Southern Denmark,
Jo Tacchi, Queensland U of Technology, Australia, and Larry Friedlander, Stanford U, US

Chair: Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths College, U of London. UK

PRECONFERENCE #3

Title:      Making Communication Studies Matter: Field Relevance/Irrelevance to Media, Library, Electronic, Communication System, Designs, Policies, Practices

Time:      Thursday, May 24, 2007, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Limit:     75 persons

Cost:       $75.00 USD (includes snacks)

This working symposium draws on the results of a four-stage dialogic surround of the challenges of interdisciplinarity and interspectivity in user/audience studies and their applications to system and communication design. policy, and practice. In stage 1, a set of in-depth interviews were conducted with 114 international experts in three fields -- communication and media studies, library and information science, and human computer interaction/information technology -- focusing on gaps between fields in their understandings of (and modes of studying) users and audiences. The work at this stage was funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. In stage 2, some 15 of the experts (sometimes working with graduate student teams and supplemented with additional colleagues) wrote 45 impressionistic essays resulting from their readings of the interview set. In stage 3, an initial grounded theory thematic analyses of the interviews was completed. In stage 4, a panel discussion at the American Society for Information Science and Technology conference in November 2006 brought together six teams, 2 each from each of the three fields, to focus on "Being user oriented: Convergences, divergences, and the potential for systematic dialogue between disciplines and between researchers, designers, and providers."  URL for this panel is at: http://imlsosuoclcproject.jcomm.ohio-state.edu/imls_papers/asist06panel_list.html.

This working symposium for ICA will constitute stage 5 of the dialogue with special emphasis on the communication field and its subfields. The presentations in the morning will come from an eclectic set of speakers representing the different fields as well as approaches and perspectives too often considered incommensurate. The speakers will focus on their "readings" of the results from stages 1 through 4 of the dialogue, combined with their understandings based on their own specialties of the challenges of interperspectivity and interdisciplinarity, to address these focal questions: 

* Beyond surface stereotypes, what differences stand between fields and perspectives in how they see and study users and audiences, and how they conceptualize and execute the challenges of the design and practice of systems to meet human needs?

* Beyond impractical idealisms, what procedural and structural interventions might improve our capacities to communicate and make a difference across disciplines and perspectives? 

In the afternoon, all enrollees and presenters will break into small groups.  Each small group will begin with background presentations by the group facilitators focusing on a variety of theory-research informed attempts to build dialogic bridges in different contexts.  The remainder of the small group time will be spent discussing the two focal questions set forth above.  Each group will report back to the symposium as a whole at the end of the day.

A potential goal from the working symposium will be to advance the dialogue into a stage 6 -- to organize an international working group to propose and seek funding for an international symposium.  The purpose of the workshop is not to arrive at "right" ways to do user/audience research but rather more effective ways of building bridges between the many different efforts being made to understand users/audiences and apply results of the work to communication and system design.

The Challenges of Being Dialogic
  Brenda Dervin, Ohio State U, USA
 
Overview of the Three-Field Dialogue
  CarrieLynn Reinhard, Ohio State U, USA
 
Disciplined Dialogue and its Implications for the Evaluative Explorations of Information Quality Issues
  Roberta Brody, CUNY - Queens College, USA
 
Bringing Contemplative Attention to the Dialogue Between Teacher/Adviser and Student
  Kathleen Clark, U of Akron
 
Systematically Nnurturing Creativity in Innovative Projects
  Angela Coco, U Of Queensland, Australia
 
Using Sense-Making Self-Interviews to Facilitate Student Explorations into How They Construct Social Theories
  David Easter, Ohio State U – Lima, USA
 
Helping Communication Practitioners to Bridge the Dialogic Gap Between Institutions and Their Publics
  Lois Foreman-Wernet, Capital U, USA
 
Bridging Ourselves: Self-Reflexivity and Digital Storytelling in the Media Classroom
  John Higgins, Menlo College, USA
 
Using Dialogic Interviewing to Understand Youth Radio Producers' Personal, Social, and Political Transformations
  Robert Huesca, Trinity U, USA
 
Cyberproject Case Study of Training Effects on Team Communication of Ecologists and Computer Scientists
  Samantha Katz, U of New Mexico, USA
 
Mediating Diversity and Uniformity: Using Web Pages to Evolve Systematic Content Analysis Methods
  HongChun Lee, Keio U; Youichi Ito, Keio U - Shonan Fujisawa, Japan
 
Using Sense-Making as Dialogic Approach to Elicit and Transfer "Deep Smarts" for Leadership Transitions 
    Albert Linderman, The Sagis Group, Inc.,  Arden Hills, MN
    email linde017@tc.umn.edu
 
Communicating the Importance of Communication Research Through Real-World Practice and Research Projects
  Tingting Lu, Ohio State U, Japan
 
The Role of Dialogue in Organizational Communication
  Paul Nelissen, Radboud U Nijmegen, The Netherlands
 
Communication-Peace Bridge
  Christlin Rajendram, Eastern U - Sri Lanka
 
Experiences with a Sense-Making Interdisciplinary Dialogue Among Researchers and Practitioners Studying Users/Audiences
  CarrieLynn Reinhard, Ohio State U, USA
 
Using Sense-Making in Online Discussions to Facilitate Southeast Asian Student Readings of Indian Cinema
  David Schaefer, Franciscan U – Steubenville, USA
 
Building Dialogic Bridges Across Theories/Disciplines: Teaching Core Social Theory to Undergraduates in Seven Departments
  Peter Shields, Eastern Washington U, USA
 
Identifying Gaps, Building Bridges: Communicating Dance Between Dean and Faculty in a Collective Bargaining Environment
  Vickie Shields, Eastern Washington U, USA
 
Using Knowledge Workers Sense-Making of Situationality as Tool for Adapting to What Matters
    Patricia Souto, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK
    P.C.Nascimento-Souto@lboro.ac.uk
 
Use of Sense-Making Interviewing for Capturing Software Requirements
  Georg Strom, U of Copenhagen, Denmark