[ecrea] New Journal: communication +1

/communication +1 /is pleased to present our inaugural issue: Futures of 
Communication <http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/>.

As its name suggests, /communication +1/ seeks to move thinking about 
communication toward unexplored terrain whose outline can be discerned 
only by continuous communications about communication. Rather than 
letting specific forms of communication guide our research agenda, 
rather than focusing on so-called “contents” or “messages” that reduce 
communication as event or process to semiotic objects, we suggest that 
we take a step back to revisit the very concept formation, with which we 
have always and already begun and on the basis which the study of 
communication may hope to mark out its distinct field of inquiry. Active 
in this project is a certain projection, a point of view by which to 
think about communication without foretelling what is to be found in our 
exploration. We hope to open a space for those for whom communication is 
at the center of their work – suggesting new lines of inquiry and 
thematizing communication as constitutive of our social being.

We are pleased to present the inaugural issue. To the authors we extend 
our deep gratitude for their contributions: /David J. Gunkel/, /Benjamin 
J. Cline/, /Gerald Voorhees/, /Kevin Driscoll/, /Mark A. Martinez/, 
/Timo Kaerlein/, /and Sabine LeBel./

To the readers we extend our invitation for inputs and suggestions.

The following pages begin a conversation we hope will continue. And it 
is to those whom have spoken we shall turn.

To access this issue please visit scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/ 
<http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/>

/communication +1 /is an open access journal supported by University of 
Massachusetts Amherst Libraries and the Department of Communication.

*Editors:*?

Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Zachary J. McDowell,?University of Massachusetts Amherst

*Advisory Board*?

Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Catherine Malabou, Kingston University, United Kingdom?

Greg Wise, Arizona State University?

Kuan-Hsin Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan?

David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University??

*About /communication +1/:*?

The aim of /communication +1/ is to promote new approaches to and open 
new horizons in the study of communication from an interdisciplinary 
perspective. We are particularly committed to promoting research that 
seeks to constitute new areas of inquiry and to explore new frontiers of 
theoretical activities linking the study of communication to both 
established and emerging research programs in the humanities, social 
sciences, and arts. Other than the commitment to rigorous scholarship, 
/communication +1/ sets no specific agenda. Its primary objective is to 
create is a space for thoughtful experiments and for communicating these 
experiments.

For more information about the project in general, as well as short 
pieces, lectures, and interviews, visit communicationplusone.org 
<http://communicationplusone.org/>.