ICA 2024 Pre- and Postconferences
16-26 June 2024 | Gold Coast, Australia
During the 74th Annual ICA Conference, PMC will be the affiliated division of four pre-/post conferences.
Reviving Qualitative Audience Research for the Streaming Era
Pre-conference
Time: Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
OFF-SITE: Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (Kelvin Grove campus)
Division Affiliation: Popular Media & Culture, Media Industry Studies
This full-day preconference will provide a space for those studying audiences through interviews, focus groups, ethnography, and other human-based qualitative approaches to share both findings and methodological tips and interrogations.
We invite scholars working on any medium (television, music, film, streaming, games, podcasts, print; entertainment or news; social or legacy media) and/or with any audience, who are interested in discussing the state of audience research and in designing its future. Papers (20 minutes max.) may focus more on findings, on methods (especially methodological innovations), or consider both. Work in progress can also be presented (please indicate in your abstract).
Please submit a title and 400-word abstract about the work you will present and its level of completion. Submit to Jonathan Gray at jagray3@wisc.edu no later than 1 December 2023.
Past, Present, and Future of the Korean Wave (Hallyu): An Emerging Communication Research Agenda
Pre-conference
Time: Thursday, 20 June 2024| 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Location: Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre (GCCEC)
Division Affiliation: Popular Media & Culture
Organizers:
Hye-Jin Paek, Department of Advertising & Public Relations, Hanyang University ERICA, South Korea
Hye Eun Lee, Department of Communications & Media, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Sun Kyong Lee, School of Media & Communication, Korea University, South Korea
Jongmin Park, Department of Media, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Dr. Henry Jenkins, Provost Professor in the School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California (https://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/henry-jenkins), will be the keynote speaker for the first session.
Submission deadline for extended abstracts: 15 January 2024
Please email extended abstracts of no more than 3000 words in length (excluding references) as a PDF attachment to hyeeunlee77@ewha.ac.kr and include your name, title (i.e., independent scholar, graduate student, postdoc, assistant professor, etc.), affiliation/institution if you have one, and preferred email address in the body of the email.
If you have any questions regarding this call for participation, feel free to reach out to our committee at hyeeunlee77@ewha.ac.kr
Selected extended abstracts from the preconference will be invited to submit full papers to a special issue of Asian Communication Research (Scopus indexed journal)
Evolving Screen Stories in the 21st Century: The State of National Drama Production
Post-conference
Time: Tuesday, 25 June 2024 | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
OFF-SITE: Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane
Division Affiliation: Popular Media & Culture, Media Industry Studies
Organizers: Amanda Lotz
This post-conference explores the consequences of the internationalization of screen industries and digital distribution for national storytelling in different national markets. We seek papers drawing on media studies approaches that blend industrial and textual awareness to link textual developments with the particular industrial conditions (economics, regulatory, technology) and pre-digital video culture that structure various national contexts.
We plan a day of paper presentations and conversations aimed at better understanding patterns internationally and allowing grounded comparative analysis. Our focus is on scripted fiction storytelling – dramas and comedies, series or movies.
Please submit a 400-word abstract by 1 December 2023 to amanda.lotz@qut.edu.au and anna.potter@qut.edu.au if interested in presenting.
The Impact of Public Relations and Promotional Communication on Human Rights, Inequalities and Social Justice: Interdisciplinary Reflections and Future Directions
Post-conference
Time: Tuesday, 25 June 2024 | 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
OFF-SITE: Gardens Point Campus, Room P419, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Division Affiliation: Public Relations, Popular Media and Culture
Organisers:
Lee Edwards, London School of Economics and Political Science, l.edwards2@lse.ac.uk
E. Ciszek, UT Austin, eciszek@utexas.edu
Jenny Hou, Queensland University of Technology, jenny.hou@qut.edu.au
Kate Fitch, Monash University, kate.fitch@monash.edu
In this post-conference, we aim to extend the potential of existing research by fostering productive, interdisciplinary conversations between scholars from across media and communications who have an interest in the influence of public relations and other promotional professions on struggles over rights, inequalities, and social justice.
We invite papers that engage critically with PR and other promotional industries, tools and practices, as well as the ambivalence that promotion introduces both for those who claim rights and recognition, and for those who try to preserve their own power and privilege.
Abstract of 500 words should be submitted to the conference email PromoPostCon2024@gmail.com by January 26, 2024. Submissions should include author names, affiliations, and contact information for the corresponding author.