International Communication Association

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Wednesday, May 24, 2017

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Mobile Media (as Tools for) Interventions	5/24/2017	5/24/2017	8:30 AM	8:30 PM	5/24/2017 8:30 AM - 8:30 PM PRECONFERENCE #2 Preconference is off-site Title: Mobile Media as (Tools for) Interventions Division Affiliation: Mobile Communication Interest group Time: Wed, 24 May; 8:30 – 20:30 Location: U of California – San Diego Transportation: carpool from Hilton using Uber, about 45 minutes of travel Limit: 30 min, 60 max Cost: $75.00 USD (lunch is included) Registration is open to everyone. Organizer(s): Colin Agur, Mariek Vanden Abeele, Katine Cumiskey, Max Foxman, Veronika Karnowski, Christine Linke, Shin Mizukoshi, Didem Ozkul-McGeoch Description: The 14th annual ICA Mobile pre-conference aims to reflect upon the influence of mobile technologies on everyday practices through the theme “Mobile Media as (tools for) Interventions.” The pre-conference will be organized into interactive Blue Sky Workshops. These workshops will provide a forum where graduate students, new faculty, and more experienced scholars can discuss their research, ideas, and work in progress, thus creating an opportunity to cultivate a supportive and integrated community of thinkers. Contact: Colin Agur, cpagur@umn.edu
Narrative Persuasion: From Research to Practice	5/24/2017	5/24/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/24/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #3 Preconference is off-site Title: Narrative Persuasion: From Research to Practice Division Affiliation: Mass Communication Division Time: Wed, May 24; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Wallis Annenberg Hall (ANN), Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, Los Angeles California Transportation: Optional: Bus immediately following conference to San Diego Hilton ($25). Prior registration with smurphy@usc.edu required, limited seats are available for the bus and will be assigned on a first come first serve basis. Limit: 20 min, 50 max Cost: $50.00 USD (lunch is included) Organizer(s): Sheila Murphy and Nathan Walter, Annenberg/USC, Jonathan Cohen, Haifa U, Hollywood, Health & Society (Director Kate Folb and Erica Rosenthal) Sponsor(s): Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California and Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S) Description: Narrative persuasion has become a burgeoning area of research offering new theoretical and empirical discoveries regarding the underlying processes that enhance or attenuate the persuasive efficacy of stories. But while interest in and use of narratives has grown exponentially, there seems to be a substantial divide between the study of narrative persuasion and the practical use of stories to sway knowledge, attitudes and behavior in health, social and other contexts. The goal of this preconference is to bridge this gap by bringing together scholars who study narrative persuasion with entertainment industry representatives who produce narrative content, as well as practitioners who increasing apply narrative interventions to health and social problems. Contact: Sheila Murphy, smurphy@usc.edu
Populism, Post-Truth Politics and Participatory Culture: Interventions in the Intersection of Popular and Political Communication	5/24/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/24/2017 9:00 AM - 5/25/2017 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #38 Title: Populism, Post-Truth Politics and Participatory Culture: Interventions in the Intersection of Popular and Political Communication Division Affiliation: Popular Communication Division Time: Wed, 24 May & Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $100.00 USD (lunch will be off-site) Registration is open to all. Limit: 10 min, 100 max Organizer(s): Cornel Sandvoss, Stephen Harrington Sponsor(s): Centre for Participatory Culture, U of Huddersfield Description: The preconference will foster a dialogue between scholars working within different conceptual and methodological traditions in order to advance interdisciplinary debates and approaches to the study of contemporary popular and populist politics; building on this analysis the preconference concludes with reflections on how this analysis can and ought to translate into interventions on behalf of communication scholars in the political process and its communicative infrastructure. Contact: Cornel Sandvoss, c.sandvoss@hud.ac.uk
Prospective Mexican Organizational Communication	5/24/2017	5/24/2017	9:00 AM	8:00 PM	5/24/2017 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #4 Preconference is off-site Title: Prospective Mexican Organizational Communication Division Affiliation: Organizational Communication Division Time: Wed, 24 May; 9:00 – 20:00 Location: U of San Diego Transportation: participants are responsible for their own travel. Limit: 25 min, 50 max Cost: $80.00 USD Registration is open to everyone. Organizer(s): Griselda Guillen Ojeda Sponsor(s): Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Description: We will have an open call papers. The participants will be organized by discussion tables about research, teaching and practice the OC in Mexico and it’s prospective. This preconference will be also the second edition of Organizational Communication National Conference, organize with the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla and Universidad Autonoma de Baja California. Contact: Griselda Guillen Ojeda, griselda_guillen@hotmail.com

Thursday, May 25, 2017

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Audiences? The familiar unknown of communication historiography	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	8:00 AM	5:45 PM	5/25/2017 8:00 AM - 5:45 PM PRECONFERENCE #16 Title: Audiences? The Familiar Unknown of Communication Historiography Division Affiliation: Communication History Time: Thurs, 25 May; 8:00 – 17:45 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Limit: 42 min, 100 max Cost: $120.00 USD (lunch is included) Registration is open to all. Organizer(s): Christian Schwarzenegger, Thomas Birkner, Kevin Grieves, Samantha Oliver, David Park Sponsor(s): ECREA Communication History Section, the IAMCR History Section, and the DGPuK Communication History Section. Description: Media consumers have largely remained in the shadows of communication history research. Methodological hurdles abound, and the relevance of this type of research to the broader field of communication scholarship has not always been clearly articulated. These challenges present an opportunity to advance the conversation on audiences, and to chart new directions for communication research. This ICA preconference is dedicated to bringing together scholars from across the spectrum of communication research and from around the globe to illuminate the history of audiences, media practices and media use. Submissions are invited to consider the full breadth of intellectual engagement with audiences, media users and media practices in the past. Contact: Christian Schwarzenegger, christian.schwarzenegger@phil.uni-augsburg.de
Communicating environmental issues among racial/ethnic minorities	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	8:00 AM	12:00 PM	5/25/2017 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #25 Title: Communicating Environmental Issues Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities Division Affiliation: Environmental Communication, Ethnicity and Race in Communication Time: Thurs, 25 May; 8:00 - 12:00 (half-day) Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $30.00 USD/ $15.00 USD for students (lunch is included) Registration is open to everyone. Limit: 25 min, 30 max Organizer(s): Bruno Takahashi, Anamik Saha, Sonny Rosenthal Sponsor(s): the UC San Diego Center for Global Justice, College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Michigan State University Description: The aim of this preconference is twofold. First, it seeks to highlight current and future scholarship in the intersection of race and ethnic studies and environmental communication. We hope to expand the scholarly discussion in environmental communication to become more inclusive of the unique theoretical and conceptual lenses that scholars working in studies on environmental justice and racism use. Second, it seeks to foster collaborations between scholars across the Environmental Communication Division and the Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division. We seek submissions that address the spectrum of environmental communication and race/ethnicity from diverse international perspectives, methods and subfields within communication and related fields/disciplines. Contact: Bruno Takahashi, btakahas@msu.edu
Digital Inequalities in the Big Data Era	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	8:00 AM	4:00 PM	5/25/2017 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #17 Title: Digital Inequalities in the Big Data Era Time: Thurs, 25 May; 8:00 – 16:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Limit: 10 min, 30 max Cost: $60.00 USD (lunch is off-site) Registration is open to all. Organizer(s): Jenifer Sunrise Winter, Nyle Sky Kauweloa, Wayne Buente Sponsor(s): Pacific Information and Communication Technology for Development Collaborative, College of Social Sciences, U of Hawaii at Manoa Description: This preconference session seeks to advance understanding of digital inequalities and discrimination related to big data and big data analytics. Co-sponsored by the Pacific ICTD Collaborative, the School of Communications at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the Institute for Information Policy, Penn State University. Contact: Jenifer Sunrise Winter, jwinter@hawaii.edu
Online and Newsworthy: Have Digital Sources Changed Journalism?	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	8:00 AM	12:30 PM	5/25/2017 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM PRECONFERENCE #14 Title: Online and Newsworthy: Have Digital Sources Changed Journalism? Division Affiliation: Journalism Studies, Political Communication Time: Thurs, 25 May; 8:00 – 12:30 (half-day) Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Limit: 16 min, 30 max Cost: $35.00 USD (lunch is not included) Registration is open to all. Organizer(s): Sophie Lecheler, Sanne Kruikemeier, Sarah Van Leuven Description: This preconference will serve scholars who are interested in how digitalization has changed journalistic news sourcing techniques. The use of reliable sources is one of the most important aspects of journalistic news production. However, when making news, journalists now increasingly use social media, websites, wikis, and online encyclopedias as sources. In today’s 24/7 news cycles, online sources offer a quick, convenient, cheap, and effective way for journalists to gather information on developing stories, and they increasingly also trigger news stories. But, what are the consequences of online sourcing for the quality of news and the journalistic profession? Can all online sources be reliably verified? Do online sources change the power relationship between political actors and journalists? Contact: Sophie Lecheler, sophie.lecheler@univie.ac.at
Organizational Communication Division Doctoral Consortium: Cultivating Local and Global Professional Identities	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	8:30 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #18 Title: Organizational Communication Division Doctoral Consortium: Cultivating Local and Global Professional Identities Division Affiliation: Organizational Communication Division Time: Thurs, 25 May; 8:30 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Limit: 30 min, 60 max Cost: $50.00 USD (lunch will be off-site) Registration is open to everyone. Organizer(s): Stacey Connaughton Sponsor(s): Special thanks to the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University and Professor Marifran Mattson, Head of School, for helping to sponsor this pre-conference. Description: This interactive preconference is an ICA Organizational Communication tradition! This full-day workshop brings together doctoral students and faculty to examine contemporary issues related to the development of our next generation of scholars. During this interactive session, faculty mentors will help advanced doctoral students think about how to develop their professional identities locally (in their home institutions and communities) and globally. We will address topics such as: (a) transitioning from graduate school to becoming a professional colleague; (b) cultivating one’s professional identity with novel research approaches; (c) publishing one’s work; (d) cultivating collaborations with new colleagues and disciplines; and (e) advancing identities related to teaching and engagement. Faculty mentors include: • J. Kevin Barge, Texas A&M University • William Barley, University of Illinois • Brenda Berkelaar, The University of Texas at Austin • Boris Brummans, University of Montreal • Patrice Buzzanell, Purdue University • Heather Canary, University of Utah • Janet Fulk, University of Southern California • Amanda Porter, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam • Craig Scott, Rutgers University • Jeff Treem, The University of Texas at Austin • Bart Van den Hooff, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam • Elizabeth Williams, Colorado State University • Ted Zorn, Massey University No paper submissions necessary. Just come ready to engage, share, network, and learn! Our pre-conference should have a minimum of 20 students. We can accept up to 48 doctoral students. Acceptance will be on a first come, first serve basis. Contact: If you have any questions, please contact Stacey L. Connaughton, Purdue University, Vice Chair, Organizational Communication Division,sconnaug@purdue.edu; 732.685.3907.
Tryst with Democracy: 70 Years of Media in Independent India - Successes, Challenges, Interventions	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	8:30 AM	4:00 PM	5/25/2017 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #9 Preconference is off-site Title: Tryst with Democracy: 70 Years of Media in Independent India - Successes, Challenges, Interventions Division: Global Communication and Social Change, Communication and Technology, Communication and Law and Policy, Journalism Studies, Mass Communication, Media Industry Studies, Mobile Communication, Popular Communication Time: Thurs, 25 May; 8:30 – 16:00 Location: U of California - San Diego Transportation: Participants are responsible for their own travel. Limit: 40 min, 50 max Cost: $40.00 USD (regular), $30.00 USD (student) (lunch is included) Registration is open to all. Organizer(s): Sudeshna Roy, Daya Thussu, Vipul Mudgal Description: August 15, 2017, marks 70 years of India’s functioning as the world’s largest democracy post-independence. Indian media have come a long way in operating in a country of such depth and complexity. One of the great achievements of India is its free and vibrant press. Yet, the drawbacks are many. In the intersections of such accomplishments and seemingly insurmountable challenges of the Indian media, lie spaces for interventions. This preconference focuses on theses spaces. Contact: Sudeshna Roy, roys@sfasu.edu
Varieties of Publics and Counterpublics	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	8:45 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #40 Title: Varieties of Publics and Counterpublics Time: Thurs, 25 May; 8:45 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $0.00 USD (lunch is included) Registration is open to all. Limit: 20 min, 60 max Organizer(s): Zhongdang Pan, Guobin Yang, Lu Wei Sponsor(s): College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang U Description: This preconference invites submissions that highlight the rich varieties of publics and counterpublics in modern societies. We encourage scholars to interrogate the assumptions of unified publics and to examine the forms, meanings and functions of multiple publics and counterpublics. It is the third annual conference of Communication and the Public, an international refereed journal by Zhejiang University and SAGE. The Editors hope to publish a special issue or symposium from the presentations at the preconference. Contact: Zhongdang Pan, zhongdangpan@wisc.edu
Comments, Anyone? Multidisciplinary Approaches for Analyzing Online User Comments across News and Other Content Formats	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	4:30 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Title: Comments, Anyone? Multidisciplinary Approaches for Analyzing Online User Comments across News and Other Content Formats Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 16:30 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $50.00 USD (lunch will be off-site) Registration is open to all. Limit: 10 min, 50 max Organizer(s): Nina Springer, Marc Ziegele, Pablo Jost, Scott Wright Description: Studies of the user comments 'below the line' on websites and social media sites of news organizations, companies, and other public figures/institutions continue to grow, though these studies are scattered across various disciplines. One reason for this situation is that comments are analyzed using different theoretical and empirical approaches. First, user comments are of interest to journalism and public relation scholars because they affect professional work routines and induce a change in the relationships between professional mass communicators and audiences. Second, because user comments often have persuasive intent and potentially reach the same audience as the (news) content to which they are attached, comments are researched by mass communication and media effect scholars in diverse contexts (e.g., perceptions of public opinion, persuasion research, and health communication). Third, scholars studying political communication investigate the quality of user-generated public discussions and analyze comments through the lens of normative theories. Fourth, scholars in cultural studies and discourse analysts are interested in how commenters appropriate news and other content formats as well as how they use language to construct subjective social realities, to disclose their identities and values, and to engage in discussions with others. Fifth, computer scientists develop new methods of collecting and automatically analyzing large datasets of user comments. This list could easily be continued, but it already illustrates that user comments are researched by scholars from numerous disciplines. The results of these various research efforts are, however, mainly communicated and recognized within the boundaries of the specific disciplines. Moreover, the validity of research on user comments is often limited to single countries and specific cultures. The preconference therefore aims at synthesizing multidisciplinary and international research on online user comments. Scholars from various disciplines are invited to present and discuss their current work on user comments with a focus on how this research can cross the boundaries of single research divisions. Additionally, the preconference will host two workshops with a focus on 'meta issues' in user comment research, such as new theoretical approaches, methodological obstacles, and lessons to be learned from comparative investigations. The preconference will take place on 25 May 2017 (9am to 5.30pm) in the ICA conference hotel (Hilton San Diego Bayfront). The preconference fee will be $50 and includes coffee breaks. We expect 20 to 50 participants. Please find the Call for Papers online: https://goo.gl/TgGR9T Contact: Nina Springer, springer@ifkw.lmu.de
Computational Tools for Text Mining and Processing	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #26 Title: Computational Tools for Text Mining and Processing Division Affiliation: Computational Methods Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $75.00 USD non-student, $50.00 USD student (lunch is not included) Registration is open to all. Limit: 18 min, 80 max Organizer(s): Dror Walter, Wouter van Atteveldt, Sijia Yang Description: Based on a survey disseminated among several ICA divisions this workshop will engage with topics related to computational textual analysis: data acquisition (scraping and preprocessing), theme extraction (topic modelling and semantic networks) and classification/sentiment-analysis (machine learning). We hope participants will leave this full-day workshop not only with ready-to-use tools for their day-to-day research but also with a more comprehensive understanding of these methods’ assumptions, properties, theories and debates. Sponsors: The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania Contact: Dror Walter, dwalter@asc.upenn.edu
Digital Asia: Recent Research and Practice	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #28 Title: Digital Asia: Recent Research and Practice Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $75.00 (faculty/non-member), $40.00 USD (student) (lunch is included) Registration is open to all. Limit: 25 min, 35 max Organizer(s): Nojin Kwak, Marko Skoric, Natalie Pang, Baohua Zhou, Tetsuro Kobayashi, Muneo Kaigo, Scott Campbell, Junho Choi Description: The role of new communication technologies—such as the internet, social media, and mobile phones—in political and civic engagement has generated significant interest not only from scholars, but also organizations, politicians, and ordinary citizens. While recent events in parts of the world, such as the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong and prominent roles of social media in elections, help recognize the potential of new communication media as an agent contributing to macro-level political changes, these new communication tools are also actively utilized in more traditional political processes, such as electoral campaigns. Also important is the everyday use of new communication technologies, that provides individuals with an opportunity to encounter public affairs news and discourse, enhance their understanding of issues, and get involved in civic and political activities. One of the critical elements that we should pay attention to when appreciating the role of new media—perhaps underlying all of these processes and practices—would be values, traditions, and history that define each Asian country and the region. Sponsor(s): U of Michigan Nam Center for Korean Studies, Nanyang Technological University, City U of Hong Kong, the Underwood Foundation Contact: digitalasiaICA2017@umich.edu
Future Directions of Strategic Communication: Towards the Second Decade of an Emerging Field	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #29 Title: Future Directions of Strategic Communication: Towards the Second Decade of an Emerging Field Division Affiliation: Public Relations, Organizational Communication, Public Diplomacy, Health Communication, Mass Communication, Global Communication and Social Change Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $105.00 USD (lunch is included) Registration is open to all. Limit: 25 min, 100 max Organizer(s): Dr. Howard Nothhaft, Dr. Dejan Verčič, Dr. Kelly Page Werder, Dr. Ansgar Zerfass Description: This preconference will address questions about the future directions of strategic communication. It builds the ground for the next decade of strategic communication research. First, panel discussions with key proponents will stimulate debate. Second, contributors of papers are invited to analyze the current and past debate, bring in new perspectives. The focus will be on conceptual papers; however, insights based on empirical data are suitable as well. Finally, participants will engage in an interactive session. Sponsor(s): "International Journal of Strategic Communication (Routledge / Taylor & Francis) Contact: Howard Nothhaft, howard.nothhaft@isk.lu.se
Global Health, Social and Behavioral Change Communication Intervention Research	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #30 Title: Global Health, Social and Behavioral Change Communication Intervention Research Division Affiliation: Health Communication, Global Communication and Social Change Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $75.00 USD regular, $50.00 USD students Registration is open to all. Limit: 10 min, 100 max Organizer(s): Evelyn Ho, Terry Flew, Rania Elessawi, Iccha Basnyat, Holley Wilkin, Shiv Ganesh Description: The main objective of this pre-conference is to leverage the professional and research connections of the organizers to bring together scholars as well as development practitioners working on global and applied health communication to meet and explore forging possible partnerships. One of the expected outcomes of this interaction will be for researchers and practitioners to form interdisciplinary teams to work on grant-writing, data analysis, formulating research priorities or other on-the-ground applied/intervention projects, particularly in the area of social and behavioral change communication. In doing this, the preconference will meet the mandate of the conference to highlight applied and translatable research. Throughout ICA there are new scholars looking to join or form research teams, established scholars who are seeking sites to test their research out into the field, and practitioners/NGOs/agencies who come to ICA looking to meet particular methodological or theoretical experts. In addition, there are researchers and practitioners with access to research funds but no other community partners to work with for their applied work and agencies with funding but not enough expertise to carry out the kinds of research that ICA members could easily do. In the international development practice, practitioners/NGOs/agencies are aiming to better articulate and develop partnerships and networking with and among academia. From this perspective this preconference will provide an opportunity to develop partnerships that could: · support capacity development interventions across /among academic institutions to develop research capacities for applied communication research in different contexts · develop research partnerships that are funded or require funding · develop research agenda that has potential for tripartite partnership aligned with social development outcomes (from priority donors/sponsors/foundations) · help scholars outside of the more dominant ICA countries to meet people and actually form working relationships, in other country contexts with challenging social development agendas. Contact: Iccha Basnyat (icchabasnyat@nus.edu.sg) Evelyn Ho (eyho@usfca.edu; Chair, Health Communication Division)
How to Quantify the Unquantifiable?	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	12:30 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PRECONFERENCE #31 Title: How to Quantify the Unquantifiable? Division Affiliation: Feminist Scholarship, LGBTQ, Mass Communication Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 12:30 (half-day) Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $25.00 USD Registration is open to all. Limit: 19 min, 30 max Organizer(s): Sabine Reich, Stine Eckert, Natalia Rybas, Habil Daniela Schlutz Description: Mass communication research is tasked with reducing complex constructs like gender to quantifiable categories. Similarly, research on media representations applies categorical systematics to dimensions of identity. Both standardized and deconstructivist approaches have struggled with these. The pre-conference brings together scholars from different backgrounds to inspire alternative approaches. We will elaborate on and think about ways to critically appraise intersecting dimensions of identity within the quantitative paradigm. Keynote: Prof. Dr. Susanne Kinnebrock (University of Augsburg, Germany) Sponsor(s): Hanover U of Music, Drama, and Media, Germany, Wayne State U Contact: Sabine Reich, sabine.reich2@gmail.com
Innovations in Narrative-Based Intervention Design, Development, and Evaluation	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #32 Title: Innovations in Narrative-Based Intervention Design, Development, and Evaluation Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $100.00 USD regular, $75.00 USD student (lunch is not included) Registration is open to all. Limit: 30 min, 50 max Organizer(s): Joycee Chatterjee, Helen Hua Wang, Angeline Lee Ann Sangalang, Michael J. Cody Description: This preconference aims to highlight and discuss selected innovative approaches in designing, developing, monitoring, and evaluating narrative-based interventions to address complex issues in public health and social justice in today’s societies. We also hope to bring together both scholars and practitioners to share the state-of-art projects in thinking and action as well as brainstorming on strategies to overcome the challenges in research and practice. Contact: Joycee Chatterjee, joyeec@ait.asia
Invention & Intervention: Blending Research with Practice to Develop Effective Media for Youth	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #33 Title: Invention & Intervention: Blending Research with Practice to Develop Effective Media for Youth Division Affiliation: Children, Adolescents, and the Media Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $100.00 USD Regular, $50.00 USD Student (lunch is included) Registration is open to all. Limit: 75 min, 100 max Organizer(s): This preconference is a joint initiative organized by the Center for research on Children, Adolescents, and the Media at the University of Amsterdam; the Center on Media & Human Development at Northwestern University, and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center Description: Today’s youth are among the fastest adopters of new technology – eager to use, learn from, and experience the vast potential that interactive media offers (including transmedia forms such as television programs, videogames, and apps). Yet while youth are quickly embracing new technology as a part of their media environment, the bridge between academic scholarship and media development has not been as quick to catch up. Indeed, researchers often find themselves asking how they can be most influential in the design of children’s media while media producers similarly find themselves wondering what the latest research shows, how they can use this information, and how they can improve their own approach to in-house research. This preconference is designed to address these gaps. Preconference Aims By bringing together media producers, industry researchers, and children’s media scholars from around the world, the intent of this preconference is to: (1) provide guidance and information to academic researchers on the types of research currently conducted within the children’s media industry, … (2) identify how academic researchers might be influential in conducting research that will drive more impactful media productions, and … (3) brainstorm ways to facilitate improved communication between researchers and (media) practitioners Importantly, conversations will focus not only on the design of youth-focused media (“invention”), but in line with the 2017 conference theme, will also highlight current examples of media products that have successfully merged research with practice to support the healthy development of youth today (“intervention”). In doing so, this preconference is likely to be of interest not only to members of the Children, Adolescents, and Media division of ICA but also members of the Health Communication and Mass Communication divisions. This daylong preconference (lunch included) will include three panel sessions with research scholars and industry leaders as well as a keynote luncheon speaker. Speakers will include: (1) World-renowned children and media scholars with experience bridging research with practice (2) Scholars (PhDs) who currently work in the children’s media field that can speak to the influence of their formal training in their industry research (3) Industry leaders and developers who are successfully incorporating research into their design process (with an emphasis on media exemplars designed to improve the health and/or well-being of youth today) Speakers have experience across various media, with an emphasis on interactive media (i.e., online content, videogames, app development) and transmedia applications. Contact: Jessica Taylor Piotrowski, j.piotrowski@uva.nl
Media Justice: Race, Borders, Disability and Data	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #10 Preconference is off-site Title: Media Justice: Race, Borders, Disability and Data Division Affiliation: Communication and Technology Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Sherman Heights Community Centre Transportation: Participants are responsible for their own travel. Limit: 20 min, 150 max Cost: $50.00 USD (lunch is included) Registration is open to everyone. Organizer(s): Tanja Dreher, Gerard Goggin, Sasha Costanza-Chock Sponsor(s): U of Sydney Description: This pre-conference brings together established activists and advocates in media justice campaigns with scholars interested in developing theories and analyses focused on race, borders, disability and data. Media justice is understood very broadly, and includes questions of justice in regards to media and communications practices, infrastructures and representation – as well as the many ways in which media are vital to wider processes of social justice and transformation. Contact: Tanja Dreher, tanjad@uow.edu.au
My So-Called "Gamified" Life: How Games Intervened with Everyday Experience	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	3:00 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #11 Preconference is off-site Title: My So-Called “Gamified” Life Division Affiliation: Game Studies Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 15:00 Location: Barra Barra Saloon - 4016 Wallace Street, Old Town San Diego, CA 92110 Transportation: No transportation provided. Cost of the Trolley (Green Route) from the conference hotel to Old Town is $5 round trip. Limit: 40 min, 60 max Cost: $25.00 USD faculty, $10.00 USD student, (lunch is included) Registration is open to everyone. Organizer(s): Chad Wertley, John Velez, Tine Vyvey, Robby Ratan, Aubrie Adams Sponsor(s): Texas Tech U, Zynga, U of York Description: Gaming should no longer be seen as a separate space, or “magic circle,” from real life. Games and game mechanics have been implemented into non-game situations in order to engage and motivate people. This process of gamification has become increasingly popular in organizational, social, and health care practices. This session explores how gamification is being used in various contexts; the effectiveness of using specific game mechanics; and the social consequences of gamifying everyday life. Guest Speakers: Dr. Sebastian Deterding - Senior Research Fellow, Digital Creativity Labs, University of York, Anna Huerta - Senior Game Designer, Zynga Contact: Chad Wertley, wertley@rmu.edu
Ordinary Citizens in the News	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #35 Title: Ordinary Citizens in the News Division Affiliation: Political Communication Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $60.00 USD faculty, $40.00 USD student (participants will be on their own for lunch) Registration is open to all. Limit: 10 min, 50 max Organizer(s): Christina Peter & Thomas Zerback Description: Over the past decades, scholars have observed a rise of ordinary citizens as actors in everyday news coverage. This trend has far reaching consequences for the audiences as well as political actors. The aim of the preconference is to shed light on the role of ordinary citizens in the news from an integrative perspective and to gain greater insight in the selection, perception, and effects of citizen depiction in news coverage. Sponsor(s): LMU Munich Contact: Christina Peter, peter@ifkw.lmu.de
Political Communication in the Online World: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Perspectives	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #37 Title: Political Communication in the Online World: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Perspectives Division Affiliation: Political Communication, Communication and Technology Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $60.00 USD (lunch will be provided by the organizers in the conference room) Registration is open to all. Limit: 45 min, 60 max Organizer(s): Patrick Roessler, Barbara Pfetsch, Gerhard Vowe Sponsor(s): Research group "Political Communication in the Online World" (funded by the German Research Foundation) Description: The preconference addresses substantial changes in political communication that have resulted from an increasing relevance of online media. The preconference will include conclusions of the research on political communication in the online world up until now, and it will include outlooks on future research: both in respect to empirical research, theories, and methods. For this, distinguished scholars from different fields of research and countries are brought together to present and discuss their work. Thus, the preconference provides a fresh update on the latest theoretical and analytical developments within a highly dynamic area of research, interlinked with several types of methodological innovation. Contact: Gerhard Vowe, vowe@uni-duesseldorf.de
Research, Intervention and Exchange Across the U.S./Mexican Border	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #13 Preconference is off-site Title: Research, Intervention and Exchange Across the U.S./Mexican Border Division Affiliation: Global Communication and Social Change Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: U of San Diego Transportation: shuttle buses Limit: 21 min, 100 max Cost: $35.00 USD (lunch is included) Registration is open to everyone. Organizer(s): Binational Association of Schools of Communication, Border Journalism Network, Organization al Communication Association of Mexico Sponsor(s): U of San Diego Contact: Dan Hallin, dhallin@ucsd.edu
Strategic Environmental Communication and Exploration of Research in Crisis, Risk and Disaster	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #44 Title: Strategic Environmental Communication and Exploration of Research in Crisis, Risk and Disaster Division Affiliation(s): Environmental Communication and Public Relations Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 - 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $50.00 USD (lunch is included) Registration is open to all. Limit: 25 min, 30 max Organizer(s): Mildred F. Perreault, Bruno Takahashi Sponsor(s): Sponsors will be the Disaster and Community Crisis Center at the U of Missouri, and Penn State College of Communications Science Communication Program. Description: This session examines the intersections of conversations taking place in Crisis, Risk and Disaster communication in the fields of Environmental Communication, Crisis Communication, Public Relations and Journalism. Scholars in these fields will discuss the theories and challenges of environmental crises and disasters. Scholars will also discuss how these strategic approaches often inform a collective understanding of environmental issues. Contact: Mildred F. Perreault, perreaultmf@appstate.edu
The Consequences of the Internet for Authoritarian Politics: Comparative Perspectives	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Title: The Consequences of the Internet for Authoritarian Politics: Comparative Perspectives Division Affiliation: Political Communication, Communication and Technology Time: Thurs, 25 May; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $50.00 USD (lunch will be off-site) Registration is open to all. Limit: 0 min, 40 max Organizer(s): Florian Toepfl, Anna Litvinenko Description: The majority of extant studies on the consequences of the Internet for authoritarian politics has focused on phenomena of political communication in one authoritarian regime only. Against this backdrop, this preconference aims at providing a forum for scholars from across the globe to discuss, and develop, comparative perspectives. Contact: Florian Toepfl, f.toepfl@fu-berlin.de
Media Performance and Democracy – The Debate Continues	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	10:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #41 Title: Media Performance and Democracy – The Debate Continues Division Affiliation(s): Journalism Studies and Political Communication Time: Thurs, 25 May; 10:00 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $50.00 USD (lunch will be off-site) Registration is open to all. Limit: 30 min, 50 max Organizer(s): Dr. Josef Seethaler, Dr. Linards Udris Sponsor(s): Austrian Academy of Sciences, U of Zurich Description: After the great success of last year’s ICA preconference on "Media Performance and Democracy", the 2017 preconference aims to continue the debate on quality indicators for journalism as tools to strengthen the democratic functions of the media. Particularly, the preconference focuses on the challenges for evaluating and measuring media quality brought about by the diversity of concepts of democracy throughout the world as well as by the growing diversity of media types and consumption patterns. Keynote Speakers: Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano; Silvia Pellegrini, Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Contact: Josef Seethaler, josef.seethaler@oeaw.ac.at
Building a Global Capability Framework for Public Relations	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	1:00 PM	4:00 PM	5/25/2017 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #42 Title: Building a Global Capability Framework for Public Relations Division Affiliation(s): Public Relations Time: Thurs, 25 May; 13:00 - 16:00 (half-day) Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Cost: $25.00 USD (lunch is not included) Registration is open to all. Limit: 30 min, 75 max Organizer(s): Dr. Johanna Fawkes Sponsor(s): U of Huddersfield Description: Concepts of competence, competency and capability are deployed in a range of fields, including human resources, management, professionalism and human development. This pre-conference will consider research findings from a global project and create space for exchange of ideas and experience in public relations and other communication disciplines. The event is hosted by University of Huddersfield researchers who are at the mid-point of a multi-national research project supported by the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management and partner universities in six continents. The event consists of interim findings from the project’s partners, including Professors Jesper Falkheimer, from Sweden, Gregor Halff from Singapore and Ronel Rensburg from South Africa, in a panel chaired by Professor Anne Gregory. There will also be presentations from a range of scholars engaged in this topic, selected from the best abstracts. The project seeks to move discussion away from the skills and tasks of competence approaches to embrace wider concepts of agency and choice in capability building. This preconference is relevant to academics, practitioners and professional body members from other communication sectors, as many of the core capabilities concern the nature of professionalism in general. Contact: Dr. Johanna Fawkes, j.fawkes@hud.ac.uk
Designing and Publishing Global Scholarship	5/25/2017	5/25/2017	1:00 PM	5:00 PM	5/25/2017 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PRECONFERENCE #15 Title: Designing and Publishing Global Scholarship Division Affiliation: Popular Communication, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Global Communication and Social Change Time: Thurs, 25 May; 13:00 – 17:00 (half-day) Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Limit: 30 min, 60 max Cost: $30.00 USD (lunch will be off-site) Registration is open to all. Organizer(s): Melissa Click, Stephen Harrington Contact: Melissa Click, melissaclick@gmail.com This preconference aims to share with particularly graduate students and junior faculty both how prominent scholars conceptualize and conduct truly "global" and "international" projects, and how book and journal editors consider and evaluate such projects. The aim, is first, to engage ongoing debates and stimulate conversations among ICA members about the stage of global and comparative media and communication research, and second, to offer participants the opportunity to hear from those who have significant experience conducting and publishing global work.

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Post Conference: Bridging practice and disciplinary perspectives on the formation and effects of country image, reputation, brand, and identity	5/30/2017	5/30/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/30/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM POSTCONFERENCE #2 Title: Bridging Practice and Disciplinary Perspectives on the Formation and Effects of Country Image, Reputation, Brand, and Identity Division Affiliation: Public Diplomacy Time: Tues, 30 May, 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront Limit: 0 min, 50 max Cost: $85.00 USD (lunch is included) Registration is open to everyone. Organizer(s): Candace White, Diana Ingenhoff, Spiro Kiousis, Alina Dolea, Alexander Buhmann Sponsor(s): USC Center on Public Diplomacy; BI Norwegian Business School Centre for Corporate Communication Description: This full day post-conference will be a meeting point for scholars and practitioners to discuss current challenges in public diplomacy and country images: migration, refugees, diaspora; the PD of international and transnational organizations; social media; the role of non-state actors, etc. We aim to debate how advancements in theory and research can contribute to the current practice of public diplomacy and are particularly interested in comparative perspectives from the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. Contact: Candace White, white@utk.edu
Post Conference: Current Trends in Global Public Relations Industry	5/30/2017	5/30/2017	9:00 AM	5:00 PM	5/30/2017 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM POSTCONFERENCE #1 Postconference is off-site Title: Current Trends in Global Public Relations Industry Division Affiliation: Public Relations Time: Tuesday, May 30; 9:00 – 17:00 Location: Public Relations Society of America, San Diego Chapter (we will be hosted by local PR agencies around the city) Transportation: public transportation Limit: 5 min, 15 max Cost: $65.00 USD (lunch is included) Registration is open to all. Organizer(s): Katerina Tsetsura, Natsuko Mochizuki Sponsor(s): SDSU School of Journalism and Media Studies Description: To connect public relations academics with the media of another culture and to experience the culture of a public relations firm. Objective: appreciate global diversity within our discipline. Contact: Katerina Tsetsura, tsetsura@ou.edu

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