[ecrea] 'Communication Worlds' ANZCA 2017 CFP

*ANZCA (Australia & New Zealand Communication) Conference 2017 – **Call 
for Papers* <http://anzca2017.com/call-for-papers/>

*/Communication Worlds: Access, Voice, Diversity, Engagement/*

*University of Sydney, Wednesday 5 – Friday 7 July, 2017 (PhD/ECR Day – 
Tuesday 4 July)*

**

*Deadline for abstracts: Friday 3 March 2017*

What are the worlds of communication we inhabit, create, and reshape? 
And how can we interpret the dynamic expansions and contractions of our 
mediascapes?

ANZCA 2017 invites reflections on ancient, modern and future 
communication worlds, colonial and postcolonial worlds, activist and 
start-up worlds, ecologies, ecosystems and environments.

We are interested in analyses of novel and emergent systems, such as the 
world of sensors, bots, algorithms and computer automation; historical 
studies of media evolution, transformation and obsolescence; or 
comparative studies of transnational phenomena and the scope of global 
social interaction.

We will also explore what is worldly (and unworldly) about communication 
in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, and their regions—pondering how the 
spaces, places, locations, and times of communication zones in Asia and 
the Pacific relate to counterparts in other parts of the globe.

Different types of ‘worlding’ enable and/or inhibit our access to, 
voice, participation and engagement in media and communication spheres.

With this in mind we seek papers that also consider the following concepts:

/Access:/What lies in and outside these symbolic worlds? Who has access 
to them and who is excluded? What are the boundaries, frontiers, 
borders, bridges, gulfs, and federations of different communication 
worlds? What knowledge, skills, resources and strategies enable us to 
enter these worlds? What forms of presence do these environments 
support, and absences do they suggest?

/Voice:/Who decides, on what terms, with what consequences, who has 
voice, and gets listened to, in our communication worlds? What are the 
design, infrastructure, technology, communication channel, repertoire, 
style, recommendation and preferencing decisions that shape these worlds 
to suit some and not others?

/Diversity:/How can we reimagine communication worlds for cultural and 
media diversity? What are the potential options for reformatting, 
rethinking, and reconfiguring policy, practice, platforms, 
possibilities, participation, and the politics of plenty (and scarcity), 
if we think communication, in all its guises and potential matters?

/Engagement:/How do we invite and recruit people to interact in our 
worlds? How might we gauge the depth, breadth or scope of their 
interests and responses, participation and contribution? And how might 
we understand the emerging social and power relations among distinct 
groups of workers—those making hardware, software, and infrastructure; 
professional content makers, immaterial and precarious labourers—and 
audiences, users, communities, publics, and others?

We welcome a wide range of submissions for papers and panels on this 
topic of /communication worlds/, spanning all areas of contemporary 
media and communications studies, policy, and practice.

ANZCA 2017 is hosted by the Department of Media and Communications 
<http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/>, University of Sydney.

For more information, visit the ANZCA 2017 Conference website 
<http://anzca2017.com/>. For any enquiries, contact: 
(anzca.meco /at/ sydney.edu.au) <mailto:(anzca.meco /at/ sydney.edu.au)>


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