Reimagining Communication: Epistemologies and the Future of Communication Studies
ICA Preconference 2022 | Paris, France
Event Details
This event ran in May 2022.
Background
In 2020, over 80 scholars from 19 countries came together as published authors in the new Routledge Communication Studies book series, Reimagining Communication, across four volumes: Meaning, Experience, Action and Mediation. The chapters collectively undertook a major forward-looking, interdisciplinary and international investigation of the general ‘information architecture’ of communication. But due to the global pandemic, a planned in-person symposium exploring the future of media studies was unable to take place. The editors and contributors to these volumes have thus organized this preconference event to continue lines of inquiry opened up by this new network of researchers, and to engage with other scholars on the theme of Epistemologies and the Future of Communication Studies.
Theme
Communication has always been rife with tensions between the critical traditions of humanistic scholars, data-driven research of social scientific researchers, the professional orientation of media practitioners, and applied technical communication design practices such as audiovisual media production and electronic publishing. If we include related fields such as computational methods and computer mediated communication, which are traditionally associated with computer science, we can say that in its richest interdisciplinary configurations, communication methodologies cut across all four of the general epistemic domains identified by Cresswell: constructivist, pragmatist, transformative and post-positivist. Our objective with this pre-conference is to interrogate, catalogue, and thematize the epistemic transgressions and emergent methodologies — including both conceptual and technological tools — that facilitate intellectual leavening and disciplinary boundary expansion, similar in spirit to the ICA-supported Rethinking Communication volumes (Dervin, Grossberg, O’Keefe, & Wartella, 1989) that appeared 30 years prior to exemplify and advance “the diversity of perspectives and theoretical problems that currently occupy the attention of the field.”
Division Affiliation
Philosophy, Theory and Critique
When
Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
Location
Getting There
Université Paris 8
2, rue de la Liberté
93 200 Saint-Denis
Metro: line 13, stop “Saint-Denis Université”
Tram: line 5, stop “Guynemer”
Bus: line 154, 253, 255, 256, 268, 356 and 361, stop “Saint-Denis Université”.
The event will be held in the Maison de la recherche, which is the brown building at the far left below, in room MR 002 which is right at the main entrance:
Schedule
8:30–8:50 — Coffee / Refreshments
8:50–9:00 —Opening Remarks
9:00–10:00 — Presentations #1: Industry
10:00–10:30 — Presentation Panel #1, Q&A
10:30–10:45 — Coffee / Refreshments
10:45–11:45 — Presentations #2: Social Media
11:45–12:15 — Presentation Panel #2, Q&A
12:15 -1:45 — Lunch Break (90 min)
1:45–2:45 — Presentations #3: Technologies
2:45–3:15 — Presentation Panel #3, Q&A
3:15–3:30 — Coffee / Refreshments
3:30- 4:30 — Presentations #4: Information (incl. Keynote)
4:30–5:00 — Presentation Panel #4, Q&A
5:00–5:30 — Coffee / Refreshments Wind Down
Presentation Groupings:
Presentations #1: Industry, panel moderated by Henrik Bødker
Translating positivist audience data into pragmatic action in media industry — Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt & Marju Himma-Kadakas
Third Way Media: Toward a New Framework of Media Analysis — Joe Cruz
History and the Culture Industry From the critique of the media to the critique of contemporary capitalism — Christophe Magis
Presentations #2: Social Media, panel moderated by Sara Monaci
Reframing documentary and social media through a media theory informed by platformization and ‘the stack’ — Sean Maher
Like, Share, Survive: A Semantic Network Analysis of Dedicated Mental Health Twitter Accounts and the Creation of Virtual Networks of Social Support — Lee Shaw
Disinformed citizenship and other deliverables of polluted information ecosystems— Maria Elizabeth Grabe and Erik Page Bucy
Presentations #3: New Technologies, panel moderated by Christophe Magis
Interfaces. Towards an integrated eco-evolutionary approach to socio-technological change — Carlos A. Scolari
Touching Holograms: Reaching out for the Feel of Visual Media — Jason Archer & Thomas Conner
New Systems of Creative Communication: a transdisciplinary inquiry — Michael Filimowicz
Presentations #4: Information, panel moderated by Sean Maher
Seasonal Journalism and Cyclical Communication — Henrik Bødker
Infodemia and information disorder: The role of dominant voices networking in spreading Twitter disinformation — Sara Monaci & Simone Persico
Keynote Speaker: Derrick de Kerckhove
Venue
Grand Amphi de la Recherche at Université Paris 8
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