[Commlist] CFP: Comparative Communication Research in a Globalized Risk Arena

ICA Pre-Conference Paris 2022, co-organized with UNESCO (Free Flow of 
Information Division), Paris

Comparative Communication Research in a Globalized Risk Arena:

Paradigms – Methods – Critique


Time: Wednesday May 25, 2022, 8.30AM to 5.00PM

Venue: UNESCO Headquarter, Paris

Please note: date change from May 26 to *May 25*

It is now a hybrid event: on-site / online participation possible

Registration fee: USD 85.00

Call for Papers

Numerous debates have shaped the parameters of international comparative 
research over the last decade. Nevertheless, a new dimension of 
globalized crisis interaction is emerging from the COVID pandemic. The 
pandemic, as a globalized risk reveals new forms of inequality while 
increasing existing inequities and situations of high uncertainty for 
citizens across the globe. Communications during the pandemic, it 
follows, have been characterized by an amalgamation of all kinds of 
communicative actors: ranging from journalists, governments, citizens, 
to scientists who engage with each other on digital platforms beyond 
national borders. The communicative interactions to which they 
contribute reveal a sphere of ‘reflective interdependence’ unfolding 
across continents, rather than nationally bound connections establishing 
‘networked subjectivities.’ Of interest, therefore, is to what extent do 
we really live in ‘one world, one network’?

In response, this ICA preconference, co-organized with UNESCO’s Free 
Flow of Information division, will provide a platform for the discussion 
of new dimensions of comparative communication research. It will address 
cosmopolitan approaches, assess globalized ontologies, and explore, 
overall, those inclusive frameworks which characterize today’s 
globalized risk arena. In turn, the preconference will outline the key 
challenges to existing paradigms and methodological approaches and seek 
to establish a critical dialogue in the field. Overall, this 
preconference will provide a platform for the discussion of new 
approaches to post- pandemic comparative communication research!

The preconference will begin with remarks from the UNESCO's Chief of the 
section for Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists, alongside a 
podium discussion with key stakeholders.

Following the preconference, selected contributions will be published in 
an edited volume.

Generally, paper submissions could focus on (but are not restricted to):

• conceptualizing comparison

• comparative methods

• approaches for inclusion

• digital analysis

• Global South crisis communication

• engage with potential challenges to existing paradigms and 
methodological approaches.


Abstracts of max. 300 words should be submitted here


In case the link above does not work, please copy/paste the following 
URL into your browser window:

https://houstoncommunication.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3TM6tpus3NG9lQO


by February 18, 2022.


We will notify all authors of acceptance/rejections by March 4, 2022.


For questions regarding the pre-conference and/or abstract submission, 
please email Ingrid Volkmer, University of Melbourne: 
(ivolkmer /at/ unimelb.edu.au).


Conference chair: Ingrid Volkmer, University of Melbourne

Co-Chairs:

Ansgard Heinrich, University of Groningen, The Netherlands,

Lea Hellmueller, City, University of London, UK


Conference team (in alphabetical order):

Hanan Badr, Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait

Saba Bebawi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Rasha El-Ibiray, Future University, Egypt

Julian Matthews, University of Leicester, UK

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