[Commlist] CFP: 16th Annual Global Communication Association Conference - Future(s) of Communication: Promises and Predicaments

Call for papers for the 16th Annual Global Communication Association 
Conference “Future(s) of Communication: Promises and Predicaments” 
İstanbul, Türkiye

*The 16th Annual Global Communication Association Conference

May 16-18, 2024 –İstanbul Bilgi University İstanbul, Türkiye


*Call for papers and panel proposals*

https://futuresofcom.bilgi.edu.tr/#
Contact E-mail Address: (futuresofcomm /at/ bilgi.edu.tr)


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Hosted by İstanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Communication, the 
Global Communication Association invites you to submit your abstracts 
and panel proposals for the 16th annual convention to be held in 
İstanbul, Türkiye, between May 16-18, 2024.

A significant aspect of modernity enabled by media and communication 
technologies has been the collapse of time and distance. Global 
connectedness through social media platforms, flow of information 
through the internet, real-time communication through smartphones, and 
virtual meetings via Zoom have historically been credited for making the 
world a more connected place. However, unforeseen predicaments of new 
technologies have raised concerns about the lack of control over their 
use, the potential biases of machine visions and thinking, and their 
potential to facilitate crime as well as security and privacy breaches.

However, the contemporary technological assemblage does not allow time 
for such critical reflections. Paul Virilio suggests that ‘the faster 
the technology advances, the more accidents we will see’. He described 
the internet as ‘“the best and the worst of things…the advance of a 
limitless — or almost limitless — communication; and at some point, it 
is also the disaster — the meeting with the iceberg — for this Titanic 
of virtual navigation.’.’’

The Titanic metaphor refers to the disastrous nature of the contemporary 
technological assemblage and the gradual disappearance of the gap 
between the implementation of new technologies and the emergence of 
their adversary effects. The conference takes the increasing speed of 
technological development in the field of media and communication as its 
starting point and explores how and whether, if at all, the predicaments 
parallel and/or supersede the promises of the implementation of new 
technologies.

The GCA invites research papers exploring any aspect of issues related 
to the theme of the
conference, including but not limited with the following topics:

     The risk society, uncertainties, and risk
     Re-thinking communication and communication theory
     Life after social media
     The future(s) of media industry and alternative media economies
     Reconsidering the methodologies of communication
     Revisiting the discussion on communication as a discipline or area?
     Crises of democracy and the media
     Pedagogy of communication and communication technologies as 
pedagogical tools
     Media archeology and revisiting the past
     Populism and the media
     Artificial intelligence tools & applications
     AI and the transformation of society
     Humanitarian crises and the media
     Climate change and the media
     Media persistence
     Migration, forced displacement, and the media
     Media worlds of terror
     Margins of communication – re-thinking the boundaries of interactions
     Multimodality and the media
     Search for alternative modalities of the media


**** Important Dates ****

Submissions due: February 15, 2024

Acceptance notification: February 22, 2024

Conference: May 16-18, 2024
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