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ICA Phoenix Opening Plenary: Telling Stories of Community: The Lost Boys of Sudan
Sponsored Sessions
Thu, May 24 – 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Cynthia Stohl, U of California – Santa Barbara, USA
Participants
Kuol Awan, Arizona Lost Boys Center, USA
Diing Arok, Arizona Lost Boys Center, USA
The 21st century has witnessed unparalleled efforts at community building and resilience as well as community decay and dissolution. For more than 20 years, the Lost Boys of Sudan have been on an extraordinary journey, a journey that began when 27,000 young boys fled their villages in southern Sudan to escape the horrors of civil war. In 2001, after 14 years of living in refugee camps,first in Ethiopia and then, when war came there,fleeing to camps in Kenya, more than 6,000 Sudanese young men were resettled in the United States. Over 500 came to live in the Phoenix area. In this plenary session, Kuon Awan and Diing Arok of the Arizona Lost Boys Center will reflect upon the dynamic community efforts to support these young men and woman rebuild their lives and how a digital archive of their refugee records, based on interviews recovered by a researcher in 2004, has reconnected them with their past. Theirs are stories of strength, stories of communication and organization, of loss and triumph, It is a story that is still unfolding locally and globally, as these men, using their education and skills now dedicate themselves to rebuilding their homes and communities and their country, The Republic of South Sudan.
Knowledge and Expertise: Communication in the Management and Performance of Knowledge
Organizational Communication
Fri, May 25 – 9:00am – 10:15am
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Alana Mann, U of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Participants
“Why Won’t You Just Tell Me How It Works?” Factors Affecting Knowledge Hoarding in Organizations
Bart J. van den Hooff , VU U – Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Colin Otto, VU U – Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Conceptual Legitimation in Organizational Communities
Drew Berkley Margolin, Northeastern U, USA
Peter Monge, U of Southern California, USA
Fast Transfer of Complex Knowledge in Global Firms: Learning Principles From Templates
Casey B. Spruill, Northwestern U, USA
Paul Leonardi, Northwestern U, USA
Lessons From the Private Sector: Using Enterprise Approaches to Define Incentives and Constraints for Web 2.0 Adoption
Jaclyn Lee Selby, U of Southern California, USA
Respondent
Noshir S. Contractor, Northwestern U, USA
Challenges of Researching on/With Communities of Practice
Communication Law & Policy
Fri, May 25 – 10:30am – 11:45am
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Elizabeth Bird , U of South Florida, USA
Participants
Media Justice and Reform: Challenges of Collaborative Research
Minna KM Aslama, U of Helsinki, FINLAND
“I’d just like to know…”: Exploring What People Don’t Think About, With Them
Patricia A. Aufderheide, American U, USA
Whose History? Crossing the Sociotechnical Border
Sandra Braman, U of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, USA
Space, Place, and Participation in Studies of Online Activism
Leah A. Lievrouw, U of California – Los Angeles, USA
The field of communication has close relationships with a variety of communities of practice for which the field provides training—journalists, filmmakers, broadcasters, public relations and marketing specialists, political strategists, policymakers, policy advocates, among others. Researchers also develop relationships with communities in a wide variety of specific areas in which researchers focus on communications issues–e.g. public health, defense, e-government implementers. Such research often results in policy recommendations, either at the institutional or societal level, and has gravitas because of the academic location of the research. Research conducted over time with particular communities engages longstanding issues of appropriate process, from acceptable involvement with subjects to perceived ownership of information to distinctions between applied and theoretical research. It requires an understanding of the culture of the community to be studied, in order to structure the design appropriately. Such research also often faces challenges of acceptance within the academy, and raises questions about the role of the communications scholar as a public intellectual.
This panel focuses on several experiences of long-term relationships with communities of practices, and features researchers with conclusions about best practices. Speakers address questions of research design, research methods, ethical challenges and the public face of scholarship. Their remarks will be a platform on which attendees can initiate a discussion that can be continued after the panel ends, both in person and virtually.
Organizing Occupy Wall Street: A Test Case For Theories of Internet Politics
Theme Sessions
Fri, May 25 – 12:00pm – 1:15pm
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Joshua M. Pasek, U of Michigan, USA
Participants
The Internet, Occupy Wall Street, and the Tea Party
Jennifer Earl, U of California – Santa Barbara, USA
Is Social Media a Political Opportunity? Reconciling Social Movement Theory With Occupy Wall Street
Joshua M. Pasek, U of Michigan, USA
The OWS Movement: Analyzing the Contexts and Role of Media in Mass Mobilization
Daniel Kreiss, U of North Carolina, USA
Ontologies of Organizing Within the Occupy Wall Street Movement
David Karpf, Rutgers U, USA
In this panel, we examine the formation and organization of Occupy Wall Street through four preeminent perspectives that dominate theorizing on online social networks. Namely, we ask whether the movement represents a case of (1) technology enabling new social practices, (2) technology redirecting what might otherwise be effective social activism, (3) social practices enabled through the confluence of preexisting networks and technological tools, or (4) a traditional social movement organization for which Internet use simply supplanted the use of older media but provided no additional enabling or suppressing effects.
At the time of this panel proposal, #OWS is still an ongoing phenomenon. We are proposing to bring together leading thinkers on Internet politics to share insights and findings from each of these four perspectives. The confluence of technology and social structure embodied in the theoretical work to date both succeed and fail to explain aspects of the #OWS movement. Our discussion considers the implications of these findings for the literatures on both social movement formation and the influence of online social networking. Occupy Wall Street is, in many respects, outside of the standard theoretical frames for social movement organizations. It therefore elicits the consideration of potential novel conditions for collective action.
Miniplenary: Infusing Social Signals into Search
Sponsored Sessions
Fri, May 25 – 1:30pm – 2:45pm
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Janet Fulk, U of Southern California, USA
Participant
Stephan Weitz, Microsoft, USA
Respondents
Elizabeth J. Van Couvering, London School of Economics, UNITED KINGDOM
Alexander Campbell Halavais, SUNY – Buffalo, USA
Jonathan J.H. Zhu, City U of Hong Kong, HONG KONG
Social signals are being infused into the next generation of web-based search results because of the understanding that human curation can do things machines can’t. What has been missing from search, according to Stefan Weitz, the Senior Director of Search at Microsoft and Director of its search engine Bing, is the emotional connection to other people when making decisions. A 14 year veteran of Microsoft, prior to Search, Weitz led the strategy to develop the next generation MSN portal platform and developed Microsoft’s muni WiFi strategy and implementation, leading the charge to blanket free WiFi access across metropolitan cities. In this session Weitz will discuss why the social adaptation side of search is so intrinsic to the human experience. Looking at how we as humans really rely on signaling from each other to make good decisions Weitz and the discussants will explore the opportunity to infuse social interactions into the online decision/search process.
Popular Culture and Political Communication Around the World
Popular Communication, Political Communication, and Global Communication and Social Change
Fri, May 25 – 3:00pm – 4:15pm
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (Hebrew U – Jerusalem) kere...@mail.huji.ac.il
Participants
Political Communication and Popular Culture in the United States
Michael X. Delli Carpini, U of Pennsylvania, USA
Bruce A. Williams, U of Virginia, USA
Participation First, Politics Next
Aswin Punathambekar, U of Michigan, USA
Popular Communication and Politics in Iran
Mehdi Semati, Northern Illinois U, USA
Azadeh Nazer Fassihi, Northern Illinois U, USA
Intimate Leaders: Media Coverage of the Personal Lives of National Leaders in Seven Democracies
James Stanyer, Loughborough U, UNITED KINGDOM
Global Approaches to News Parody
Geoffrey Baym, U of North Carolina – Greensboro, USA
This panel brings together prominent scholars from the fields of popular communication and political communication, whose work addresses the intersection of politics and popular culture in different parts of the world. The purpose of the panel is to provide a basis for conceptualizing the ways in which the relationships between popular culture and political communication are articulated in different geopolitical contexts and media environments. It is also hoped that this panel will contribute to the building of new bridges between popular and political communication scholarship.
ICA Plenary: Creating Community: A Special Performance by Jana Mashone
Sponsored Sessions
Fri, May 25 – 4:30pm – 5:45pm
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
J. Alison Bryant, PlayScience LLC, USA
Participant
Jana Mashone, International Talent Organization, Inc., USA
Jana Mashone, an award-winning Native American singer-songwriter, will perform and discuss the ways her music and the Jana’s Kids Foundation address the challenges of community, communication, cultural pride, identity, motivation, and ambition. Jana has performed at prestigious international venues, most recently at Carnegie Hall in New York City and her work has been recognized globally. Her music video The Enlightened Time has won awards at major film festivals around the world. In 2010 Jana released the highly acclaimed New Moon Born on Miss Molly Records, the first Native American-owned label to be distributed by RED/BDG, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment/BDG. She also recently published her first book, American Indian Story—the Adventures of Sha’kona, based on her grammy- nominated album of the same name. Besides recognition for her extraordinary artistry, Jana was honored as the 2011 “Woman of the Year” by the Year of the Woman Foundation for her work in business and philanthropy. In this plenary session, the remarkable Jana Mashone shares her unique vision of our conference theme, Communication and Community.
Networks in Context: Ecological Approaches, Communication, and Healthy Communities
Theme Sessions
Sat, May 26 – 9:00am – 10:15am
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Jack M. McLeod, U of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
Participants
Understanding Individuals in the Context of Their Environment: Communication Ecology as a Concept and Method
Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach, U of Southern California, USA
Carmen Gonzalez, U of Southern California, USA
Minhee Son, U of Southern California, USA
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, U of Southern California, USA
Communication Ecology: A Brief Review of Theory
Lewis A. Friedland, U of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
Nakho Kim, U of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
Communication Asset Mapping: An Ecological Application Toward Building Healthy Communities in South Los Angeles
George Allen Onas Villanueva, U of Southern California, USA
Garrett Manuel Broad, U of Southern California, USA
The Communicative Construction of Bridging and Bonding Civic Engagement for Healthier Neighborhoods
Matthew D. Matsaganis, SUNY – Albany, USA
Holley A. Wilkin, Georgia State U, USA
This panel contributes theoretical, methodological and empirical insights to those fields of research that analyze the intersections of communication and community. It brings together researchers from across the academic career spectrum, all of whom are bound by a recognition that an ecological approach to communication and media studies offers a grounded understanding of how communicative dynamics serve to shape community, at the same time as communication is shaped by broader environmental structures. In developing their theoretical assumptions, the works draw from a wide body of scholarly traditions and critiques from across several disciplines. From there, the papers blend innovative measures and methodologies with traditional research practice as a means to encompass the range of challenges and opportunities that are present in efforts to build healthy communities.
Extended Session: Revisiting Cultural Imperialism, Interrogating Social Change
Global Communication and Social Change
Sat, May 26 – 10:30am – 1:15pm
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Participants
Paolo Sigismondi, U of Southern California, USA
Radhika E. Parameswaran, Indiana U, USA
Colin Stuart Sparks, Hong Kong Baptist U, HONG KONG
Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Bowling Green State U, USA
Silvio R. Waisbord, George Washington U, USA
Karin Gwinn Wilkins, U of Texas, USA
Marwan M. Kraidy, U of Pennsylvania, USA
The extended session will provide a forum for provocative and lively discussion on the question of whether and to what extent power is shifting globally, particularly in the arena of culture and media. We will also broach the possible implications of such a shift or lack of shift, including implications for social change. Finally, as part of the inquiry we will interrogate the meaning of social change, including its shifting meanings at the current historical juncture and across different locations globally. After invited participants present their position succinctly, in no more than 8 minutes each, there will be ample opportunity for multi-directional, interactive discussion with the audience. The idea is to put forward innovative and even heretical ideas to move the conversation forward.
International Communication Association Annual Awards and Presidential Address
Sponsored Sessions
Sat, May 26 – 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Larry Gross, U of Southern California, USA
Cultural Issues in Health Communication: Relationships, Interventions, and Communities
Health Communication
Sat, May 26 – 3:15pm – 4:00pm
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Khadidiatou Ndiaye, Michigan State U, USA
Participants
Cross-Cultural Assumptions of Cultural Variation and Self-Criticism on Depression in Mental Health
Ayano Yamaguchi, Reitaku U, JAPAN
Min-Sun Kim, U of Hawaii, USA
Negotiating Health in the US: Understanding International Students Beliefs and Health Care Experiences
Khadidiatou Ndiaye, Michigan State U, USA
Jie Zhuang, Michigan State U, USA
Neala Havener, Michigan State U, USA
Nicole Sparapany, Michigan State U, USA
Jonathan Kurian, Michigan State U, USA
Yashu Chen, Michigan State U, USA
Reducing STD/HIV Stigmatizing Attitudes Through Community Popular Opinion Leaders in Chinese Markets
Ronald E. Rice, U of California – Santa Barbara, USA
Zunyou Wu, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CHINA, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF
Li Li, U of California – Los Angeles, USA
Roger Detels, U of California – Los Angeles, USA
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, U of California – Los Angeles, USA
Reproductive and Sexual Health Portrayals on Primetime Television
Katrina Louise Pariera, U of Southern California, USA
Heather Jane Hether, U of the Pacific, USA
Sheila Teresa Murphy, U of Southern California, USA
Sandra de Castro Buffington, Hollywood, Health & Society, USA
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, U of Southern California, USA
The Relative Impacts of Uncertainty and Mother’s Communication on Hopelessness Among Palestinian Youth in Lebanese Refugee Camps
Walid Afifi, U of California – Santa Barbara, USA
Tamara D. Afifi, U of California – Santa Barbara, USA
Stephanie A Robbins, U of California – Santa Barbara, USA
Najib Nimah, Phoenix Foundation, USA
Excellence and Quality in Journalism
Journalism Studies
Sat, May 26 – 4:45pm – 6:00
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Howard Tumber, City U London, UNITED KINGDOM
Participants
Beyond New Toolsets and New Skillsets to New Mindsets: Journalist-Faculty and the Promotion of Excellence in Journalism
Michael Stuart Bromley, U of Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Cold War Mindedness as a Questionable Quality Marker for U.S. Journalism
Barbie Zelizer, U of Pennsylvania, USA
Postprofessional Journalism? Challenges and Responses to Jurisdictional Control
Silvio R. Waisbord, George Washington U, USA
Investigating Journalism Prizes and Awards: Resolving the Problem of the Construction and Validation of Excellence in Journalistic Practices
Howard Tumber, City U London, UNITED KINGDOM
Transparency of Processes as a Way to Enhance Credibility, Public Relevance and Quality of Journalism
Joaquim Fidalgo, U of Minho, PORTUGAL
There is no general consensus about what constitutes journalistic quality or indeed how to measure it, as the existing accounts fail to provide a standard and empirically-grounded definition which could be universally accepted. However, there have been several attempts to tackle this problematic issue. The development of new digital technologies poses significant challenges and new problems to journalistic quality. The emergence of grassroots journalists is part of the wider phenomenon of citizen-generated media and should not be seen as a necessary threat to traditional journalism, but as a unique opportunity to do better journalism (Gillmor, 2006; Benkler, 2006). The call is to incorporate new forms of news reporting, new tools, and a new relationship with readers. Despite all these efforts to conceptualise journalistic quality, the question over how to measure it effectively on a practical basis remains; as does the confusion, uncertainty and ambiguity over what journalistic quality comprises.
“Comparatively Speaking” Revisited: Building a Future Agenda for Comparative Communication Research
Sponsored Sessions
Sun, May 27 – 9:00am – 10:15am
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Frank Esser, U of Zürich, SWITZERLAND
Participants
Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths College, U of London, UNITED KINGDOM
Wolfgang Donsbach, Technical U – Dresden, GERMANY
Daniel C. Hallin, U of California – San Diego, USA
Thomas Hanitzsch, U of Munich, GERMANY
Young Yun Kim, U of Oklahoma, USA
Jack M. McLeod, U of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
Claes H. De Vreese, U of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
The purpose of this session is to build an agenda for comparative communication research and open up new avenues of study. Following issues and suggestions for future directions of research will be discussed by the panelists:
(1) Comparativists need to better explain what we gain from a comparative perspective; its relevance for the understanding of substantive questions must be demonstrated.
(2) Another important future task is to generate more theories specifically designed for comparative analysis and to develop universally applicable concepts.
(3) We have to make sure that the concepts and measures we use are valid and reliable across cultures.
(4) We need to realize that comparison essentially constitutes a multilevel problem, which has important theoretical and methodological implications.
(5) Comparative research should allow for theoretical, epistemological and methodological pluralism than can be achieved, for instance, by way of triangulation.
(6) We need to extend our compass by including a broader range of media systems, including non-Western regions that are traditionally understudied.
(7) The units we compare deserve critical reflection. The nation-state is not the only, and in many cases not necessarily the most meaningful unit of comparison.
(8) Comparativists need to further institutionalize their networks and build an international data infrastructure.
(9) Scientific collaboration is the key to the future development of comparative communication research.
Extended Session: Looking Through the Crystal Ball: The Future of Communication Research
Information Systems
Sun, May 27 – 10:30am – 1:15pm
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Prabu David, Washington State U, USA
Participants
A Network Approach Toward Literature Review
Lidwien van de Wijngaert (Twente U)
A Pattern in Online Behavior Streams: The Transition and Repetition of Behavior Choices
Hai Liang, City U of Hong Kong, HONG KONG
Jonathan J.H. Zhu, City U of Hong Kong, HONG KONG
Morality and Media: Neural Indicators of Moral Processing Within News Stories
Allison Eden , VU U – Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Ron Tamborini, Michigan State U, USA
Lu Wang, Michigan State U, USA
Issidoros Sarinoploulos, Michigan State U, USA
The Functionality of Social Tagging as a Communication System
Poong Oh, U of Southern California, USA
Peter Monge, U of Southern California, USA
The Relationship Between Adolescent Usage of Text Messaging and Facebook and Neural Responses to Exclusion
Emily Falk, U of Michigan, USA
Matthew Brook O’Donnell, U of Michigan, USA
Joe Bayer, U of Michigan, USA
Christopher Cascio, U of Michigan, USA
Respondents
Annie Lang, Indiana U, USA
Michael A. Shapiro, Cornell U, USA
Elly A. Konijn, VU U – Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Peter Monge, U of Southern California, USA
Michael E. Roloff, Northwestern U, USA
Edward L. Fink, U of Maryland, USA
S. Shyam Sundar, Pennsylvania State U and Sungkyunkwan U, USA
Malcolm R. Parks, U of Washington, USA
The six papers will be presented two at a time, followed by comments from a panel of three journal editors and established scholars. Panelists will offer their thoughts on how the approaches used in the papers might or might not influence the future of communication research. The panel discussion will be followed by a lively Q&A before we switch to the next two papers. The papers will be made available in advance to foster online discuss well before the conference.
Contemporary Dangers in Practicing Journalism
Sponsored Sessions
Sun, May 27 – 1:30pm – 2:45pm
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chairs
Frank Esser, U of Zürich, SWITZERLAND
Stephanie L. Craft, U of Missouri, USA
Meet the Editors of ICA Publications
Sponsored Sessions
Sun, May 27 – 3:00pm – 4:
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Amy B. Jordan, U of Pennsylvania, USA
Participants
Malcolm R. Parks, U of Washington, USA
James E. Katz, Rutgers U, USA
Thomas Hanitzsch, U of Munich, GERMANY
Maria Bakardjieva, U of Calgary, CANADA
Elisia L. Cohen, U of Kentucky, USA
Michael West, International Communication Association, USA
This panel provides the ICA membership the opportunity to meet the editors of ICA’s journals and the Communication yearbook. The session is devoted to answering and addressing issues you may have about specific ICA publications.
2012 Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture: Dan Gillmor: Civic Literacy in a Networked Age
Sponsored Sessions
Sun, May 27 – 4:30pm – 5:45pm
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Steven Jones, U of Illinois – Chicago, USA
Participant
Dan Gillmor, Arizona State U, USA
In a media- and information-saturated environment, where everyone is a consumer and a creator, we need to learn — and teach — updated skills. For the people who were once only consumers, a variety of modern literacies are crucial to know what (and whom) we can trust. Media creators, too, will need to grasp some key principles that add up to being honorable. At stake is whether self-governing societies will have the information they need.
Dan Gillmor, an internationally recognized author and leader in new media and citizen-based journalism, is the founding director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and the Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship.Gillmor continues to write in blogs and other media, including a semi-regular column at Salon.com. He speaks frequently at conferences and major universities around the world on media and technology topics. For that purpose, he has traveled to Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, including several trips sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
Divine Databases
Philosophy of Communication
Mon, May 28 – 9:00am – 10:15am
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Participants
Prayer 1.0: The Biblical Tabernacle and the Problem of Communicating with a Deity
Menahem Blondheim, Hebrew U – Jerusalem, ISRAEL
Orthoprax: Judaism and Accounting
Sharrona Pearl, U of Pennsylvania, USA
Saving Information: Mormonism and Open-Source
Benjamin Peters, U of Tulsa, USA
The Theology and Technology of Omniscience
John Durham Peters , U of Iowa, USA
Respondent
Stewart M. Hoover, U of Colorado, USA
Mankind’s relationship to deity has long been loaded with communication problems. Prayers to God, like petitions to bureaucrats Elihu Katz once pointed out (1969), involve persuasive appeals aimed at clearing imbalanced power relations, hierarchies of authority, and veils of silence and uncertain response. While the communicative status between man and divinity remains subject to debate, the influence of religious thought on media studies is clear: a number of leading media and communication scholars have found in religious practices deep reservoirs of insight for rethinking both timeless and pressing communication conundrums. Backlit by this tradition, this panel directs critical attention to modern-day digital technologies and techniques that mediate between religious peoples and their mediated practices. In particular, the following panel of scholars mine for insight the technological mediation of ancient and modern minority Judeo-Christian practices. Each paper is motivated by a common concern to critically recover a longer media history understood through the mold of modern media vocabulary, such as, among others, search technologies, two-way communication, complex accounting and record-keeping, public-key cryptography, and databases.
Inclusion, Exclusion, Exploitation, and Normalization: Culture, Gender, Race, and the Video Game Industry
Game Studies
Mon, May 28 – 10:30am – 11:00am
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Dmitri Williams, U of Southern California, USA
Participants
Working as Playing? Consumer Labor and the Guild of Online Gaming in China
Lin Zhang, U of Southern California, USA
White Man’s Virtual World: A Systematic Content Analysis of Gender and Race in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
Frank Waddell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U, USA
Rommelyn Conde, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U, USA
Courtney Long, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U, USA
Rachel McDonnell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U, USA
Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion at a Video Game Studio
Robin Johnson, Sam Houston State U, USA
The Normalization of the First-Person Shooter
Gerald Alan Voorhees, Oregon State U, USA
The Games Studies Special Interest Group hosts this live “virtual” session concurrently at the conference in Phoenix and through an online site. In addition to the on-site audience, a virtual audience from all over the world is able to participate in the session online by watching a streaming feed of the presentations and offering questions, comments, and discussion via text feedback.
ICA Phoenix Closing Plenary: The Internet is the End of Communication Theory As We Know It
Sponsored Sessions
Mon, May 28 – 12:00pm – 1:15pm
Location: Valley of the Sun C
Chair
Cynthia Stohl, U of California – Santa Barbara, USA
Participants
Steven Jones, U of Illinois – Chicago, USA
Carolyn Marvin, U of Pennsylvania, USA
Jeremy N. Bailenson, Stanford U, USA
Jack Qiu, Chinese U of Hong Kong, HONG KONG
Respondent
Joseph B. Walther, Michigan State U, USA
Emerging technologies are radically changing the communication landscape. New media enable new possibilities for community, governance, participation, relationships, work, and play. What are the implications of digitalization for communication theory as it has traditionally been conceptualized? Are our methods outdated? Are our questions no longer relevant? In our closing plenary, four highly influential communication scholars, each uniquely positioned to address the relationship among technology, social practices, and the study of communication will debate the proposition “The Internet is the End of Communication Theory As We Know It.”
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