Tag: history of communication discipline

CFP Gen Z & Global Communication ICA Preconference (Canada but Hybrid)

ConferencesCall for proposals: Generation Z and Global Communication, International Communication Association Preconference, 25 May 2023, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel (Hybrid: On-site and online). Deadline: 1 March 2023.

Generation Z (Gen Z), the first to have been born after the mass-adoption of the Internet, is the most electronically connected generation in history. Growing up with many high-tech devices, these digital natives are used to having access to a vast number of diverse information, doing real-time communication with their friends and others regardless of physical location and generating content instantaneously to all kinds of international digital platforms. Exposed fully to the Internet-based world, how are the attitudes and beliefs of Gen Z influenced by the virtual world, especially the world of social media? How are the media use of Gen Z similar or different between countries? What are differences between Gen Z and previous generation in terms of their perceptions and knowledge of their own countries and other countries? How does video games, the most globalized content around the world affecting the young generation?

Organizers welcome innovative and original research studies addressing the theme on Generation Z and authenticity in global communication from all disciplines, methodologies, and professions, including case studies, quantitative and qualitative research, data and network science, etc.

The preconference will have paper awards for full paper submissions but welcome extended abstract submissions (up to 500 words). All full papers and abstracts will go through double-blind review. First Place paper will receive USD300 cash award, Second Place paper will receive USD200 cash award, and Third Place paper will receive USD100 cash award. Online Media and Global Communication will reserve the first right of refusal for publishing the award-winning submitted papers in the themed issue.

CFP History of Communication ICA Preconference (Online)

ConferencesCall for proposals: Exclusions in the History and Historiography of Communication Studies, International Communication Association Remote Preconference, May 27, 2021. Organizers: David W. Park, Jefferson Pooley, Peter Simonson. Deadline: 20 December 2020.

The broader field of communication studies is in a moment when we are—or should be—intensively interrogating patterns of exclusion and hegemony that have continued to constitute it: around global region (de-Westernizing, theory from the South, persistent patterns of American influence/hegemony), race (#communicationsowhite), gender (#metoo, #gendercom, Matilda effects,), and indigeneity/colonization (postcolonial and decolonial initiatives). To frame these exclusions as constitutive is to head off any easy solutions in terms of greater inclusivity, though that needs to be part of the mix; rather, it is to invite us to consider all of the ways in which these and other exclusions have functioned to center certain problems, theories, methods, languages, nations, social identities, and publication venues; and to exclude or marginalize others that are cast as differentially less valuable, lower status, Other, and more. To frame them as constitutive is also to draw attention to how those exclusions are performatively enacted on an ongoing basis through the full range of practices, social and epistemological, through which the field (re)produces itself.

It is time to animate our histories of communication and media studies with similar problematics, recognizing the patterns and performances through which the field(s) has organized itself around constitutive exclusions and continues actively to do so in its historiography. How have particular geopolitical locations (including but not limited to nations) achieved centrality, established standards and status hierarchies, and accumulated advantages and various forms of capital through marginalization and exclusion? How has colonialism and its persistent structural effects fueled communication study around the globe, and how does our historiography maintain that form of dominance and exclusion? How have gender/patriarchy, race/racism, and ethnicity fueled analogous processes? What forms of resistance and counter-hegemonies have arisen or persisted?

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CFP Communication History

A Century of Communication Studies
CALL FOR CHAPTER  PROPOSALS
The editors (Pat J. Gehrke, University of South Carolina and William M. Keith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), in cooperation with the National Communication Association, invite chapter proposals for the National Communication Association’s 100-year anniversary volume, contracted for publication by Routledge in 2014.

We invite authors to propose chapters that promise to accomplish four things:

1. Take as its central focus a clustered theme that bridges the disciplinary sub-divisions. Recommended themes include:
*Speech  / Speaking / Voice / Orality
*Identity / Identification / Self
*Context / Situation / Event
*Interdisciplinarity / Disciplinarity
*Politics / Power / Efficacy / the Political
*Science / Method / Epistemologies
*Psychology / Mind / Thought
*Body / Embodiment / Performance
*Relating / Dialogue / Discussion / Relationships
*Organizing / Sociality / Movements / Collectives
*Purpose / Goal / Outcome / Effect
*Audience / Listener / Persona / Receiver
*Media / Medium / Mediation
*Meaning / Significance

2. Give consideration to the past 100 years of the discipline, including teaching and research as appropriate. This includes finding a lineage, genealogy, or history that can weave the clustered theme into a relationship with the discipline’s history and story since the early twentieth century. Chapters should adopt a critical and thoughtful relationship to the discipline and its history, rather than offering uncritical adulation or simplistic idealization. We encourage authors to consider opportunities not only to celebrate the accomplishments of the discipline, but to explore the challenges and controversies in communication scholarship. Such studies may likewise offer perspectives on possibilities and prospects for future research, scholarship, and teaching.

3.  Use a variety of sources, as appropriate, including journals, books, and archival resources.  These sources might include our current journals back to their beginnings, journals no longer published (such as the Public Speaking Review), books, collected papers of specific scholars, and the archives of associations, departments, or institutions.

4. Proposals should include a plan for having a complete draft of no more than 8,000 words to the editors by September of 2013. 

Each chapter should cut orthogonally across the current categories and subdivisions of communication studies, drawing together diverse materials to explore the richness of the communication literature by following concepts rather than professional affiliations. Chapters need not be completely discrete and we anticipate some overlap between them. Each recommended theme is specific enough to provide a core node for the organization of a history, and a touchstone for both the authors and readers.  However, each is also broad enough and dispersed enough across the specializations within the discipline that the authors will need to account for a variety of orientations and methods in analyzing the function of that theme for communication studies. Each theme has its challenges and its insights, and each has made a strong appearance in our scholarship of teaching and learning, as well as our research. Likewise, these themes can be traced not only across the range of our sub-fields but at least back to the earliest years of the national association. Chapter proposals organized around additional themes are welcome, but should likewise meet these same general criteria.

Proposals should be 500-1000 words, submitted along with a copy of the authors’ curricula vitae, by electronic mail to Pat Gehrke at PJG@PatGehrke.net by August 15, 2012. We prefer Adobe Acrobat (pdf) file format, if possible. Microsoft Word (doc/docx) or Open Document (odt) are also acceptable. We especially encourage proposals from pairs or small groups of authors who represent a diversity of backgrounds, methods, or academic ranks. All proposals will receive confirmation of receipt within three business days. The editors will finalize the list of contributors by early September 2012.

Please direct questions or inquiries to Pat Gehrke or Bill Keith