[Commlist] Call for Papers: ICA 2020 Conference Theme "Open Communication"

***CfP: 70th Annual ICA Conference Theme "Open Communication", Gold 
Coast, 21-25 May 2020***

Deadline: 1 November 2019

We are delighted to invite you to the 70th Annual International 
Communication Association Conference in Gold Coast, Australia from 21-25 
May 2020.

The theme of ICA 2020 is Open Communication.

The ICA 2020 conference theme aims to facilitate and deepen the 
conversation about Open Science in the field of communication. The 
international movement towards Open Science touches on many aspects of 
our research practices, and discussing the implications will enable and 
contribute to a conversation in the ICA and our field more broadly about 
Open Science. This is an inclusive conversation from which our entire 
field can benefit.

As a concept, Open Science is oriented toward advancing scholarship 
through transparency, wide-ranging collaboration, and a focus on the 
creation of public goods. It is about sharing knowledge about our 
research process, being up front about research ideas, transparent and 
thoughtful about analyzing our materials, and ensuring that, when 
possible, data and instruments are available for future scholars to 
learn from and to challenge. We need an open conversation about what the 
Open Science movement implies for the diverse field of communication 
research. This conversation should serve to further increase both the 
quality of our research and the transparency of the research process. As 
is the case with Open Access, quality and transparency will help us to 
build better communication research with a broader appeal.

Open communication science is not a one-size-fits-all. But how can we 
develop best practices and share experiences in creating an ‘Open 
Communication Science’ space for all scholars? These are conversations 
that we should have as communication scholars, at our home universities, 
with our funders, and also within the ICA.

With the theme of Open Communication, we encourage research and panels 
that cut across research domains and practices. We invite researchers to 
look beyond divisional and sub-disciplinary boundaries and also bring in 
perspectives from adjacent disciplines in the humanities and social 
sciences. In particular, we also encourage submissions that focus on 
digital communication, the lockdown of platforms, and the interesting 
tensions between data science and open science practices.

With the Open Communication conference theme, we encourage scholars to 
address key questions that relate to collaboration in and the 
accessibility of our work, such as:

•            What are good open science practices and how can they be 
adopted in our discipline?

•            What does open science imply for the norms and values that 
underlie our research work?

•            How do we develop an inclusive open science culture that is 
respectful of epistemological differences?

•            How do we square developments towards data science, 
algorithms, and artificial intelligence with open science principles and 
practices?

•            How can open science enable the communication field to be 
inspired by, and inspire, adjacent fields?

•            How do we educate both emerging and established 
communication scholars about open science?

•            What are the roles and responsibilities of different actors 
(universities, funders, associations, research groups, journals, 
individual researchers)?

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR THE ICA 2020 THEME CATEGORY:

• All submissions must focus on the topic of Open Communication;

• Work that debates, advances, or practices open science principles in 
communication can be submitted as papers so as to allow the theme chair 
to create panels that discuss and/ or showcase open science practices;

• Panels for the theme should be cross-divisional (having broad appeal 
across all units of ICA),

• Innovative (and interactive) and educational format s are encouraged.

Submissions to theme sessions must follow all general guidelines put 
forward by ICA. Proposals for papers and panels on the conference theme 
are invited from all sectors of the field, and will be e valuated 
competitively by anonymous reviewers selected by the theme chair. 
Submissions deemed to fit only the interests of one division or interest 
group rather than the conference as a whole will be forwarded to that 
group for consideration. Papers or panels submit ted to the theme must 
not be submitted simultaneously for consideration to any division or 
interest group.

Panel proposals on the conference theme must include a 400-word 
rationale explaining how the panel fits the conference theme plus a 
separate 150-word summary of the rationale to appear in the conference 
program.

GENERAL PROPOSALS

As always: papers, posters, and panels that apply to general 
communication topics not having to do with theme are also welcome. These 
are organized within the 32 IC A divisions and interest groups’ Calls 
for Papers, the submission guidelines for which will be enumerated on 
the ICA website in August.

All panel submissions (general and theme) should include contributions 
from at least two different countries; not more than one contributor 
from a single faculty, department or school; and generally be mindful to 
consider panelist diversity.

QUESTIONS?

For other questions related to the 2020 conference theme, please contact 
the Conference Theme Chair: Eike Mark Rinke, (e.m.rinke /at/ leeds.ac.uk)

For conference and submission-related questions, please contact: 
(conference /at/ icahdq.org)

Submission-related information will be made available on the ICA website 
closer to the submission deadline: http://icahdq.org/


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