[Commlist] ICA 2022 call for papers - One World, One Network‽

ICA Theme Call for Papers
https://www.icahdq.org/page/ICA22CFP

The ICA 2022 conference theme One World, One Network‽ invites 
reimagining communication scholarship on globalization and networks. The 
use of the interrobang glyph - a superposition of the exclamation and 
question punctuation marks – seeks to simultaneously celebrate and 
problematize the “one-ness” in the theme.

Arguably nothing celebrates the “one-ness” of the world more than our 
existential commitment to the sustainability of our planet. Indeed, the 
blue marble photograph of Earth taken by the crew of Apollo 17 in 1972 
is one of the most reproduced images in history. In other areas, “One 
World” remains a contested slogan. Marshall McLuhan invoked visions of a 
“global village” in the 1960s. A 1980 UNESCO report titled “Many Voices, 
One World” introduced the phrase “New World Information and 
Communication Order” to recommend changes to address inequities in 
global media representations. The proliferation of the Internet, social 
media, and mobile technologies since the turn of the 21st century has 
generated a robust debate on the promises and perils of globalization.

Communication scholars have also interrogated the “one-ness” of networks 
among individuals, families, children, organizations, communities, 
cultures, media systems, and nation-states, among others. More recently, 
scholars have explored the communicative implications of networks in the 
human brain as well as networks of humans and autonomous agents (robots, 
AI). Networks offer evocative metaphors, theories, and analytical tools 
to help us understand communication processes and structures that 
undergird a wide range of domains. Communication scholars have deployed 
network approaches to understand education, healthcare, sustainability, 
policy making, as well as work and organization. They have probed the 
interplay between networks and journalism, media governance, popular 
culture, visual representations and online gaming. And, they have 
explored how networks enable and undermine social support, social 
justice, and social movements. Networks also offer us a lens to 
problematize - and address - issues such as the geo-political 
fragmentation of the Internet (“Splinternet”), cyberattacks, 
disinformation, exclusion, extremism, hate, marginalization, oppression, 
polarization, and racism. In addition to helping us reimagine our 
engagement with globalization and networks, advances in technologies are 
spurring new computational modes of intellectual inquiry alongside more 
established empirical, interpretive, discursive, rhetorical, and 
critical approaches.

The theme invites research, reflection, and critique of the “One World, 
One Network‽” discourse in communication studies on questions including 
(but not limited to) the following:

    How do we theorize and model interdependent networks nested at many 
levels (from brain cells to societies) to better understand and enable 
how communicative processes and structures shape our world?
    How do global networks organize and mobilize socio-political 
contestations online and offline? How can networks of resistance, 
solidarity, and counter-power through regional formations both beyond 
and beneath the nation-state shape “Another World”?
    How are advances in artificial intelligence, robotization, the 
Internet of Things, genetic engineering, and neuroscience, among others, 
contributing to the future trajectories of algorithmically infused 
societies and networks, at work and play, around the world?
    How are media systems – old and new - nurturing networks of 
“intimate publics” and “counter publics” among communities around the globe?
    How and why do some networks infiltrate mainstream media systems 
with disinformation, propaganda, and hate while other networks find 
themselves ignored, censored, or targeted?
    How are networks contributing to images of the Global South 
produced and consumed in the Global North - and vice versa? How do these 
asymmetries shape inequities in our responses to global challenges such 
as pandemics and sustainable development?
    How can networks change the lived experiences – training, 
mentoring, publishing, co-authoring, and recruiting - of 
under-represented scholars around the world in the field of 
communication? How do we square the circle of “oneness” while promoting 
visibility of minoritized positions? What must we do to decolonize 
communication scholarship and address methodological imperialism? How do 
we expand the notion of “One World” to also signal, inclusively, “All 
Our World(s)”?


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR THE ICA 2022 CONFERENCE THEME:

All individual and panel Conference Theme submissions must focus on 
globalization and networks and intellectually engage with at least two 
or more divisions/interest groups; all Conference Theme submissions must 
include a (maximum 100-word) narrative articulating this 
inter-divisional/interest group engagement. In addition, all submissions 
are encouraged to reflect diversity in terms of the region, ethnicity, 
gender, and career stage of those contributing as well as those cited. 
Engagement with other academic disciplines (including those beyond the 
social sciences and humanities) and non-academic entities is also 
encouraged. Submissions are invited for in-person presentations as well 
as remotely originating from either a Regional Hub meeting or individually.

NEW: Multi-lingual submissions and presentations. Submissions are 
invited in languages preferred by scholars. Provisions will be made to 
provide automated or human-in-the-loop translations for purposes of 
review and for audiences. If submitting in another language besides 
English, please list in parenthesis of the title.

NEW: Contributors of individual and panel submissions to Conference 
Theme will be requested to self-assess diversity. At the time of 
submission, individuals who seek to contribute to the conference theme 
will self-assess: (i) the extent to which the submission focuses on a 
specific region of the world or is global in its scope; (ii) the extent 
to which the submission references and builds on scholarship diverse in 
terms of region, ethnicity, gender, and career stage; (iii) the extent 
to which coauthors (if any) reflect diversity in terms of region, 
ethnicity, gender, career stage, other academic disciplines (including 
those beyond the social sciences and humanities), and non-academic 
entities (e.g., civil society, government, industry, NGOs, policy 
makers). In addition to the above, contributors to all panel conference 
theme submissions will be requested to self-assess, at submission, the 
extent to which the pane as a whole reflect diversity in terms of 
region, ethnicity, gender, career stage, other academic disciplines 
(including those beyond the social sciences and humanities), and 
non-academic entities (e.g., civil society, government, industry, NGOs, 
policy makers). These self-assessments will be used along with other 
criteria in making decisions about submission acceptances.

Panel conference-theme submissions are encouraged to: (i) showcase 
and/or critique ongoing inter-divisional communication scholarship 
relevant to the conference theme; (ii) propose the development of an 
inter-divisional research agenda relevant to the conference theme; 
and/or (iii) assemble a blue-sky session for individuals to workshop 
nascent ideas that could lead to the future development of an 
inter-divisional research agenda relevant to the conference theme.

In addition to submissions to be presented during the conference, 
contributors are invited to submit proposals for pre- and post- 
Conference-theme workshops that could be in-person, online or hybrid, in 
and around Paris as well as from locations around the world.

NEW: Digital Artifacts Exhibition on Conference Theme: Contributors are 
invited to submit “Digital Artifacts” relevant to the conference theme. 
The exhibit will launch online in early 2022 and continue past the 
conference. Submissions can be in the form of artwork, information 
visualizations, oral histories, performance art, installation art, 
interactive, multimedia, 3-D, augmented reality, and virtual-reality 
offerings that highlight aspects of the conference theme. The digital 
exhibition platform will offer opportunities for online dialog and will 
be recognized with special ICA-wide awards.

Submissions to theme sessions must follow all general guidelines put 
forward by ICA. Proposals for papers, panels, material and digital 
artifacts, as well as pre- and post- conference workshops on the 
conference theme are invited from all sectors of the field and will be 
evaluated competitively by anonymous reviewers selected by the 
Conference Theme Committee. 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 
submitted 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, a 100-word 
rationale articulating how the panel intellectually engages with 
multiple divisions/interest groups, plus a separate 150-word summary of 
the rationale to appear in the conference program.

	
	
	

Click the following links for more information for:
General Guidelines for All Submissions
https://www.icahdq.org/page/confsubguide


Division's and Interest Group's Conference Calls for Papers
https://www.icahdq.org/page/ICA22CFP

    Activism, Communication and Social Justice Interest Group
    Children, Adolescents & the Media Division
    Communication & Technology Division
    Communication History Division
    Communication Law & Policy Division
    Communication Science and Biology Interest Group
    Computational Methods Division
    Environmental Communication Division
    Ethnicity & Race in Communication Division
    Feminist Scholarship Division
    Game Studies Division
    Global Communication/Social Change Division
    Health Communication Division
    Human-Machine Communication Interest Group
    Information Systems Division
    Instructional and Developmental Communication Division
    Intercultural Communication Division
    Intergroup Communication Division
    Interpersonal Communication Division
    Journalism Studies Division
    Language & Social Interaction Division
    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Interest Group
    Mass Communication Division
    Media Industry Studies Interest Group
    Mobile Communication Interest Group
    Organizational Communication Division
    Philosophy, Theory and Critique Division
    Political Communication Division
    Popular Media & Culture Division
    Public Diplomacy Interest Group
    Public Relations Division
    Sports Communication Interest Group
    Visual Communication Studies Division

GENERAL PROPOSALS

As always: Papers, posters, panels, Blue Sky workshops, and 
pre-conference and post-conference workshops that apply to general 
communication topics not having to do with the conference theme are also 
welcome. These are organized within the 33 ICA 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, must 
actively seek panelist diversity. Paper and panel submissions that 
involve direct collaboration with community partners, both in work and 
in authorship, are encouraged.

NEW: Non-Conference Theme Inter-Divisional/Interest Groups Panels. In 
addition, proposals are invited for panels that address significant 
issues across divisions/interest groups that are not directly related to 
the conference theme. Proposals must provide a 400-word rationale for 
the intellectual and/or societal significance of the panel, a 100-word 
rationale articulating how the panel intellectually engages with 
multiple divisions/interest groups, plus a separate 150-word summary of 
the rationale to appear in the conference program. Inter-divisional 
non-conference theme panels will NOT count toward the slots allocated 
for each Division/Interest Group.

To summarize, the 2022 ICA Call for Papers invites multi-lingual 
contributions to: (i) Conference Theme ICA-wide individual submissions, 
(ii) Conference Theme ICA-wide Panel Submissions, (iii) Conference Theme 
ICA-wide Digital Artifacts, (iv) Conference Theme ICA-wide pre- and 
post-Conference workshops, (v) Non-Conference Theme ICA-Wide 
Inter-Divisional/IG panels, (vi) Non-Conference Theme Division/IG 
individual, panel and pre-/post conference workshop submissions,(vii) 
Sponsored Panels, and (viii) Blue Sky sessions.

NEW: ICA 2022 Conference Theme Podcast miniseries. Stay tuned for an ICA 
conference theme podcast miniseries, where the first episode features a 
discussion among the six conference-theme co-chairs and each of the 
remaining six episodes is hosted by one of the conference-theme co-chairs.
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