[Commlist] CFP for ICA 2019 Preconference: "Communicating with Machines: Boundless Imagination"

CFP for ICA 2019 Preconference
"Communicating with Machines: Boundless Imagination"
Date: May 24 (Friday)
Time: Full-day
Location: Conference hotel

Submission due date: January 31 (Extended abstracts)

Brief description:
As information communication technology continues to develop and merge, 
we are increasingly interacting with digital interlocutors such as 
voice-based agents, chatbots, and social robots. We also are sending and 
receiving messages to and from wearable devices. We directly interact 
with the technologies surrounding us, and digital entities have been and 
continue to stand in for humans in everyday communication contexts. In 
the past few years alone, a whole host of robotic and digital 
technologies, from Apple's Siri to Softbank’s Pepper, have been made 
available to the average consumer. This recent surge of digital 
interlocutors into everyday routines has been accompanied by questions 
regarding the ramifications of these technologies and our interactions 
with them. Scholars and practitioners of communication are uniquely 
situated to be leaders in discussions in Human-Machine Communication (HMC).

In HMC, technology is conceptualized as more than a channel or medium: 
it enters into the role of a communicator, and the messages flow between 
and among humans and machines. In this preconference, we will focus on 
the individual, cultural, and philosophical implications of such 
interactions. Possible topic areas for participant presentations 
include, but are not limited to, communicative practices between humans 
and digital interlocutors, the incorporation of AI into journalism and 
other media industries, the integration of artificial entities into 
private, professional, and political spaces, the cultural discourse 
surrounding these technologies, relationship dynamics between humans and 
machines, reinterpretations and representations of humans as digital 
entities, and intercultural aspects of HMC. We invite scholars from 
ICA’s many divisions to discuss their work regarding the individual, 
cultural, and philosophical implications of machine/digital 
interventions. We seek to raise awareness of and further develop HMC 
research and the scholarly community surrounding it.

For more information: http://humanmachinecommunication.com


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