[Air-L] ICA/CAT Preconference: Digital Media & Comm Research: A Venture in Forecasting and Intervention
Leah Lievrouw
llievrou at ucla.edu
Tue Mar 14 13:54:18 PDT 2017
Hello all AoIR colleagues! For those of you planning to attend ICA in
San Diego in May, you may be interested in this preconference on May 25,
being organized by myself and /Information, Communication & Society/
editor Brian Loader (as you know, iCS publishes special issues for
AoIR). See details below -- highlights include Delphi rounds ahead of
the preconference for all registered participants, discussion sessions
convened by contributors to the forthcoming /Routledge Handbook of
Digital Media & Communication/ (Lievrouw & Loader, eds.), a closing
session featuring as respondent Lee Rainie, Director of Internet,
Science & Technology Research at the Pew Research Center, and a report
on our results in a special section of /iCS/. We hope to see you there!
Leah Lievrouw
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*Call for Open Registration: ICA 2017 Preconference*
*Division Sponsor: Communication and Technology (CAT)*
**
*/Digital Media and Communication Research:/**/ A Venture in
Forecasting and Intervention/*
May 25, 2017, San Diego Hilton Bayfront Hotel
*See
also*http://www.icahdq.org/resource/resmgr/Conference/2017/PC19-schedule.pdf
_Organizers_:*Leah A. Lievrouw*, Dept. of Information Studies,
University of California, Los Angeles, and *Brian Loader*, Dept. of
Sociology, University of York
_Registration Fee_:$100.00 USD; open registration (no CFP). Register at
http://www.icahdq.org
_Description_: In his landmark 1976 volume, /The Coming of
Post-Industrial Society/, sociologist Daniel Bell advanced a sweeping
vision of the impending economic, cultural, and social changes
associated with the dramatic post-war growth in media networks and
institutions, information technologies, knowledge work, and services in
developed societies. His modest subtitle -- /A Venture in Social
Forecasting /-- hardly suggested the controversies and debates his book,
and his vision, would provoke among early new media scholars,
researchers and critics.
More than 40 years on, after decades of socio-technical change that Bell
could scarcely have imagined, participants in this day-long intensive
preconference will engage in a new “venture” in forecasting to identify
fruitful ways ahead for digital communication/new media studies. Using
themes from the forthcoming /Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and
Communication/ (Lievrouw & Loader, eds.) as points of departure,
preconference participants and /Handbook /contributor-panelists will
collaborate on a wide-ranging, prospective agenda for the next decade of
theory, research and practice in communication and media studies under
conditions of pervasively networked, digital mediation.
*The preconference results/findings, highlights of the preconference
discussions and participant contributions will be summarized and
published in a special issue of the journal /Information, Communication
& Society/, as part of celebrations marking iCS's twentieth year of
publication. *
In April 2017, the organizers will open an exclusive online forum where
pre-publication selections from the /Handbook/ will be available to
participants as background for discussion. Participants and panelists
will be invited to engage in two to three brief Delphi-style rounds via
the site ahead of the San Diego meeting, to focus their expert views on
the most compelling, under-explored, or likely future issues, problem
areas, and opportunities for intervention in digital/new media and
communication research, scholarship and practice.
On the preconference day, the /Handbook/ editors/conveners and
contributor/panelists will lead all participants in a series of
interactive plenary sessions which will explore the Delphi results and
the book's main themes: the /artifacts/ (design, use and affordances of
technology and devices, and the material conditions and embodiment of
use), /practices/ (emerging and established forms of communicative
action and engagement, cultural change and critique), and
social/institutional /arrangements/ (macro-scale legal, economic or
policy issues, social/political movements, industry trends,
institutional and organizational formation and change) of
digitally-mediated communication. Formats and activities of each session
will depend on the topics being explored.
The preconference will conclude with a general session, moderated by the
organizers and *Lee Rainie, Director of Internet, Science and Technology
Research of the Pew Research Center*, in which the main themes and
issues identified throughout the day will be reviewed and summarized
into a rough preliminary agenda for research and action. Following the
ICA conference, the organizers will edit the preconference contributions
into a collection for publication in /iCS/, circulating drafts and
soliciting any further suggestions from participants via the
preconference site.
_Preconference Agenda_[TENTATIVE; session schedule and participants
subject to change]
8:30-9:00 am***Coffee and Introductions, Preconference Goals *
**Review of Preconference Activities & Schedule
*Leah A. Lievrouw*, University of California, Los Angeles
*Brian Loader*, University of York
9:00-10:45 am*Session I: Artifacts*
Conveners (additional panelists TBA):
*Finn Brunton*, New York University
*Taina Bucher*, University of Copenhagen
*Radhika Gajjala*, Bowling Green State University
*Lee Humphreys*, Cornell University
*Matt Ratto*, University of Toronto
10:45-11:00 am*Break (refreshments provided)*
11:00-12:45 pm*Session II: Arrangements*
Conveners (additional panelists TBA):
*Julie Cohen*, Georgetown University
*Terry Flew*, Queensland University of Technology
*Barry Wellman*, University of Toronto
12:45-1:45 pm*Lunch (participants on their own)*
1:45-3:30 pm*Session III: Practices*
Conveners (additional panelists TBA):
*Shiv Ganesh*, Massey University
*Antero Garcia, *Stanford University
*Nancy Jennings*, University of Cinncinnati
*Gunnar Liestøl*, University of Oslo
*Irina Shklovski*, IT University of Copenhagen
*Cynthia Stohl*, University of California, Santa Barbara
3:30-4:00 pm*Break (refreshments provided) *
4:00-5:15 pm*Closing Session: Recap and Priorities*
Moderators:Lievrouw & Loader
Guest Respondent:*Lee Rainie*, Director, Pew Internet Project,
Washington, D.C.
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Leah A. Lievrouw, Professor
Department of Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
216 GSE&IS Building | Box 951520
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
Tel +1 310 825 1840 Fax +1 310 206 4460
Email llievrou at ucla.edu
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/llievrou/LeahLievrouw/Welcome.html
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