[Commlist] CFP - Comparative Communication Research in a Globalized Risk Arena: Paradigms – Methods – Critique

*ICA Pre-Conference Paris 2022*

*Comparative Communication Research in a Globalized Risk Arena:*

*Paradigms – Methods – Critique*

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Time: Thursday, May 26, 2022, 8.30AM to 5.00PM

Venue: off-site (TBA)

Registration fee: USD 85.00

Conference details and abstract submission (https://tinyurl.com/axyh963r)

*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 will provide a broad 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 thoughts 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.

It is planned to host the preconference at UNESCO (tbc).

*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 challenges to existing paradigms and methodological
    approaches.
*Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted here - 
*https://tinyurl.com/3tybpxmr*by February 18, 2022*. For questions 
regarding the pre-conference and/or abstract submission, please email 
Ingrid Volkmer, University of Melbourne: *(ivolkmer /at/ unimelb.edu.au).*

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*Conference organizers (in alphabetical order):*

Hanan Badr, Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait

Saba Bebawi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Lea Hellmueller, University of Houston, USA

Ansgard Heinrich, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Rasha El-Ibiray, Future University, Egypt

Julian Matthews, University of Leicester, UK

Ingrid Volkmer, University of Melbourne, Australia

*Conference chairs:*

Ingrid Volkmer, University of Melbourne, Australia

Ansgard Heinrich, University of Groningen, The Netherlands


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