[Air-L] Reminder: ICA Pre-Conference on Debating Creator Culture — Call for Submissions (Jan 31)

[Tom Divon]

Dear AoIR Community,

This is a reminder about our thrilling ICA25 Preconference, *Debating
Creator Culture*, hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder, College of
Media, Communication, and Information, on June 11, 2025. *The submission
deadline is January 31, 2025.*

*What’s the debate all about?*
Building on recent research into creators, influencers, and digital labor
and visibility, we wish to collectively explore whether “creator studies”
constitutes a new subfield, an extension of communication studies, or
something else entirely. Revisiting foundational debates around disciplines
and field-setting, we ask (borrowing from Baym, 2005): What is the “right
term” for this scholarly community and its work? Is it an academic “field”
or “discipline”? To what extent does “creator studies” demand a unique
scholarly space strengthened by interdisciplinary epistemologies and
methods, especially from communication and media studies?

*We particularly welcome papers or panels that explore and debate topics
such as:*
# Continuities and departures from media and communication history
# Studies that bring outside or novel epistemologies, theories, and
frameworks into dialogue with existing communication scholarship
# New approaches, methods, or questions deemed central to creator studies
# Questions about the value of content-related terms, such as “format,”
“genre,” and “engagement”
# The structural and material conditions of creator industries
# The global formations and dynamics of creator industries, particularly in
peripheral markets and the Global South, and in response to the conditions
posed by platform nationalism

*For more details, including the full CFP, schedule, and submission
instructions, visit:*
https://www.ccsn.site/ica

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For any further questions, don’t hesitate to reach out also via email -
contentcreatorscholarsnetwork at gmail.com

We’re looking forward to seeing your submissions and engaging in meaningful
conversations!

The CCSN

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*Tom Divon*
Media & Culture R*esearcher*
Dept. of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC, Herzliya
Tel: +972-547-532681
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*Publications*:
Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok
#Challenges
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231157607>.
Playful Publics on TikTok: The Memetic Israeli-Palestinian War of #CHALLENGE
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377439020_Playful_publics_on_TikTok_The_memetic_Israeli-Palestinian_war_of_CHALLENGE>
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#JewishTikTok: The JewToks' Fight against Antisemitism
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359548581_JewishTikTok>.
Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 Seconds?
<https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/2022/03/24/can-you-learn-about-the-holocaust-in-60-seconds-on-tiktok/>
TikTok(ing) Ukraine: Meme-based Expressions of Cultural Trauma on Social
Media
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Moa-Eriksson-Krutroek/publication/378460815_TikToking_Ukraine_Meme-based_Expressions_of_Cultural_Trauma_on_Social_Media/links/65d9f11be7670d36abda037e/TikToking-Ukraine-Meme-based-Expressions-of-Cultural-Trauma-on-Social-Media.pdf>
Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: Mixed Methods, Data Curation &
Anti-publics <https://jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/issue/view/17/18>
Performing Death and Trauma? Participatory Mem(e)ory and The Holocaust In
TikTok #POVchallenges
<https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/12995>

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