ANZCA 2017
Communication Worlds: Access, Voice, Diversity, Engagement
University of Sydney
4-7 July, 2017
What are the worlds of communication we inhabit, create, and reshape? And how can we interpret the dynamic expansions and contractions of our mediascapes?
ANZCA 2017 invites reflections on ancient, modern and future communication worlds, colonial and postcolonial worlds, activist and start-up worlds, ecologies, ecosystems and environments. We are interested in analyses of novel and emergent systems, such as the world of sensors, bots, algorithms and computer automation; historical studies of media evolution, transformation and obsolescence; or comparative studies of transnational phenomena and the scope of global social interaction.
We will also explore what is worldly (and unworldly) about communication in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and their regions—pondering how the spaces, places, locations, and times of communication zones in Asia and the Pacific relate to counterparts in other parts of the globe. Different types of ‘worlding’ enable and/or inhibit our access to, voice, participation and engagement in media and communication spheres. With this in mind we seek papers that also consider the following concepts:
- Access: What lies in and outside these symbolic worlds? Who has access to them and who is excluded? What are the boundaries, frontiers, borders, bridges, gulfs, and federations of different communication worlds? What knowledge, skills, resources and strategies enable us to enter these worlds? What forms of presence do these environments support, and absences to they suggest?
- Voice: Who decides, on what terms, with what consequences, who has voice in, and gets listened to, in our communication worlds? What are the design, infrastructure, technology, communication channel, repertoire, style, recommendation and preferencing decisions that shape these worlds to suit some and not others?
- Diversity: How can we reimagine communication worlds for cultural and media diversity? What are the potential options for reformatting, rethinking, and reconfiguring policy, practice, platforms, possibilities, participation, and the politics of plenty (and scarcity), if we think communication, in all its guises and potential matters?
- Engagement: How do we invite and recruit people to interact in our worlds? How might we gauge the depth, breadth or scope of their interests and responses, participation and contribution? And how might we understand the emerging social and power relations among distinct groups of workers—those making hardware, software, and infrastructure; professional content makers, immaterial and precarious labourers—and audiences, users, communities, publics, and others?
We welcome a wide range of submissions for papers and panel on this topic of communication worlds, spanning all areas of contemporary media and communications studies, policy, and practice.
You may submit a full paper, an abstract (oral-only presentation), or a panel proposal.
The deadline for submissions is Friday 3 March 2017 and all will be initially reviewed by the conference team in consultation with stream coordinators. Please submit your abstracts to ANZCA2017 EasyChair submission (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=anzca2017) by Friday 3 March. For those submitting full papers for consideration in the proceedings, the deadline is Monday 1 May.
Please note that with ALL types of submission, EasyChair will require an abstract as well as an uploaded document.
To view the full CFP and full conference details, please visit: http://anzca2017.com/call-for-papers.
