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As you know, this year's conference theme is "Matters of Communication: Political, Cultural and Technological Challenges," a theme that was meant to invite scholars and researchers to think about communication as the nexus where the material and immaterial dimensions of our world meet with each other. Our world is made of artifacts, technologies, bodies, and sites, but also of principles, passions, ideas, meanings, and values. If our world is indeed im/material, studying communication is essential to understanding the spectral nature of our experiences and exchanges.
The theme programming will comprise seven theme panels and one cross-unit panel, all of which will address various aspects of this im/material character of communication. This conference will be an opportunity to learn about how various philosophies incarnate themselves in organizational contexts (theme panel 7), why communication mattered for the 2004 Tsunami (panel 2), the material and ideational consequences of terrorist storytelling (theme panel 6), the material dimension of culture and identity (theme panel 1), the link between the symbolic and architectural aspects of spaces and places (theme panel 3), the physical aspects of the virtual (theme panel 4), and the material and immaterial dimensions of online consumer communities (theme panel 5).
Moreover, the cross-unit panel will reflect on the presumed influence hypothesis in media effect (also called the third person effect), which illustrates how the ideational and perceptual world shape reality in a variety of contexts.
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Materializing Culture and Identity in Communication
Time: Thu, Jun 24 - 4:00pm - 5:15pm
Place: SUNTEC International Convention Centre, Theater
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Matters of Communication From the Tsunami of 2004: (Inter)personal/Intercultural, Mass Media, ICTs, and Other Responses
Time: Fri, Jun 25 - 8:30am - 9:45am
Place: SUNTEC International Convention Centre, Room 313
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Mediating Space, Place, and Politics
Time: Wed, Jun 23 - 2:30pm - 3:45pm
Place: SUNTEC International Convention Centre, Theater
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Mediation and Representation: Digital Culture and Politics in Communication Studies
Time: Thu, Jun 24 - 2:30pm - 3:45pm
Place: SUNTEC International Convention Centre, Theater
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Online Consumer Communities: Opportunities, Impacts, and Challenges
Time: Sat, Jun 26 - 8:30am - 9:45am
Place: SUNTEC International Convention Centre, Theater
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The Im/materiality of Terrorism: Addressing the Political and Cultural Implications of (Counter)narratives in Strategic Communication
Time: Fri, Jun 25 - 2:30pm - 3:45pm
Place: SUNTEC International Convention Centre, Theater
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The Materialization of Immateriality in the Constitution of Organizations in Asia: Perspectives on Malaysian, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian Organizations
Time: Wed, Jun 23 - 11:30am - 12:45pm
Place: SUNTEC International Convention Centre, Theater
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Thinking That "Communication Matters" Matters: The Influence of Presumed Media Influence (Cross Unit Panel)
Time: Thu, Jun 24 - 11:30am - 12:45pm
Place: SUNTEC International Convention Centre, Room 302
In addition to displaying innovative thinking on communication and im/materiality, the papers presented in these sessions will provide evidence of the international strength of ICA. Panelists and respondents from 13 countries-including many from Singapore-will be represented in the theme sessions, reflecting the global importance of the issues addressed under the mantle of the conference theme.
Finally, as in years past, Hampton Press will be publishing a volume that includes some of the best work from the conference related to the theme. Contributions need not be presented in a theme session panel, so if your paper touches on the theme, please contact 2010 Theme Sessions Chair Timothy Kuhn (tim.kuhn@colorado.edu) to discuss submission for this book.
Looking forward to seeing you in Singapore!
François Cooren
Conference organizer
Timothy Kuhn
Theme session organizer
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