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Exchanges journal (Issue 10.1, Autumn 2022 Published)
by Johnson, Gareth 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

Dear all, The latest issue of the early career researcher and interdisciplinary focussed Exchanges journal<https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/> (ISSN 2053-9665) has been published. Content overview as below: --- This is the twenty-third issue of Exchanges, published in October 2022. As usual, this issue brings together a range of articles from scholars from a variety of different disciplinary traditions around the globe. Article topics in this issue include: fakery and animals within academic publishing practices, distributional thinking about film shot duration, the five forces framework and its insights into the electro-automotive industry, realism, reflections focussing on reality and research practice, an exploration of the unpublished novels of Anita Mason, a literature review on the theory and practice of Arnstein’s Ladder and finally, a critical reflection on the use of collage as an autoethnographic method. The editorial also briefly introduces the issue, its contents and offers some insights into the development of the journal’s Editorial Board. It also reminds readers of the future opportunities for contributions to the title from authors old and new alike, and the journal’s expanding range of companion podcast episodes. Access via: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v10i1 --- The next regular issue of the journal is scheduled for April 2023, although a number of special issues continue to be in preparation. Best wishes Gareth --- Dr Gareth (Gaz) J Johnson Managing Editor-in-Chief, Exchanges Journal Room C0.10, Institute of Advanced Study, Zeeman Building, University of Warwick https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/ T: 024 765 7443 (extn 74423) E: gareth.johnson(a)warwick.ac.uk<mailto:gareth.johnson@warwick.ac.uk> B: https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/exchangesias/ Tw:@ExchangesIAS<https://twitter.com/ExchangesIAS> P: https://anchor.fm/exchangesias

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CFP, 2023 ICA postconference - Beyond Nudging, Towards Diversity: Understanding transparent algorithmic recommendation practices for media and communications
by Jonathon Hutchinson 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

---With apologies for cross posting--- Please find below the call for papers for our 2023 ICA Postconference. More details available here (registrations open soon): https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA23-prepostconferences Beyond Nudging, Towards Diversity: Understanding transparent algorithmic recommendation practices for media and communications Endorsed by the following ICA Divisions: Human Machine Communication Interest Group Deadline for abstracts: Friday, 2 December 2022 Theme Digital platforms and personalisation play an increasingly important role for how we engage with public issues online. Whether we scroll through social media, visit a streaming platform, or use a news aggregator, the content we see is at least partly determined by algorithmic curation. So far, curation algorithms are often metrics and engagement driven, thereby contributing to digital dilemmas such as click- or ragebaiting or the spread of disinformation. Moreover, the inner workings of curation algorithms and their underlying objectives often remain opaque. Building on the knowledge we have about how platform affordances shape public discourse and democratic decision making, this post conference aims at exploring future opportunities for responsible, value-sensitive platform design. As such, the goal of this post conference is twofold: First, it aims to bring together work that critically engages with the design and effects of digital platforms - particularly in relation to notions of media diversity and transparency. Second, and building on the former, it hopes to generate new ideas and approaches for researching and implementing value-sensitive platform design that facilitates social cohesion. Key aspects that we hope bring together are the promises and pitfalls of digital nudging, the need for transparency and diversity/serendipity, as well as individual-level and societal effects of diversity-aware platform design in both the short and the long term. This one-day post conference invites papers focusing on but not limited to the following topics. Given the nature of the topic, interdisciplinary work is especially encouraged, including natural language processing and computer science, as is the submission of work in progress that address: * Transparency * Digital nudging - design, effects and questions relating to paternalism and user autonomy * Value-sensitive platform design * Platform choice architecture * Recommender systems * Affordances of digital platforms * Digital intermediation practices * Content creation practices for recommender systems * Authentic nudging - engaging (reclaiming?) authenticity through automation * Nudging for media diversity and plurality * Computational implementation and analysis of algorithmic recommendation practices A selection of papers will appear in a special issue within a leading Q1 international journal - details still to be confirmed. Invited participants include: Shaina Raza (PhD Student, CS, Ryerson University in Toronto): Accuracy meets Diversity in a News Recommender System Donghee Shin (Prof, Zyaed University, Comm & Media, UAE): Nudging Users toward News Diversity in News Recommender Systems Zhixin Giselle Pu (PhD Student, Penn State, Comm) & Michael Beam (Prof, Kent State, Emerging Media & Technology): Personalized Serendipity Sanne Vrijenhoek (PhD student, UvA, Law & Information) Nicolas Mattis (PhD student, VU, Comm) & Wouter van Atteveldt (Prof, VU, Comm) Lien Michiels (PhD student, CS, U of Antwerp) Michael Ekstrand (Prof, CS, Boise State) Submission and Selection Process Authors should submit an extended abstract of 300-500 words, outlining which theme they are interested in addressing, to Nicolas Mattis: n.m.mattis(a)vu.nl Abstracts would be submitted by 2 December. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 16 December. The abstract should contain a main idea or argument, a research question, a short literature review and some empirical evidence (if relevant). We welcome a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including historical, computational, regional and scholarly approaches. The abstract should be anonymised with no details of the author(s) made obvious. The conference will be held off site from the official conference location: Date: Tuesday, 30 May Start time: 9:00am Finish: 4:00pm Location: University of Toronto Registration and Fees Registration will open in January, 2023. Cost is $US40 (waged) $US20 (Student) The preconference is open to both ICA and non-ICA members. Attendees will need to create a profile to register. 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[Social Networks, Deadline Nov. 13] Call for Papers in ICC 2023
by Jui-Yi Tsai 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

*SCOPE AND MOTIVATION* Recently, social network research has advanced rapidly with the prevalence of online social applications and mobile social communications systems. Metaverse has emerged as one of the future Internet for business, socialization, entertainment, and education in fully connected, immersive, and engaging online 3D virtual experiences. Nevertheless, the ongoing pandemic via contact social networks has caused tremendous human life and economic loss around the world, and infodemic is one of the major social impacts that make people difficult to discriminate trustworthy sources, from false and manipulative information sources. Therefore, researchers are increasingly interested in addressing a wide spectrum of challenges in social networks, such as developing social-aware algorithms for communications systems, identifying the topological common structures and information/influence flows, analyzing the social media and evolutions of social graphs, and exploiting location-based and contextual information embedded in mobile social networks to create innovative applications. Due to its increasing prevalence and interdisciplinary nature, social networks have also attracted intensive research interests across multiple disciplines, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data analytics, information security and privacy protection, psychology, and marketing. In light of the above crucial needs, Selected Areas in Communication Symposium in Social Networks will serve as a forum for researchers and technologists from academia, industry, and government to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their cutting-edge innovations and contributions, and set future directions in all aspects of social networks. The symposium seeks original contributions in the following topical areas, plus others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related. - Artificial Intelligence for social networks and applications - Social network analysis on epidemic diagnosis and asymptomatic infector tracking for COVID-19 and other pandemic - Convergence and interplay between Metaverse and the underlying communication networks - Infrastructure, platform, protocol design, and optimization for mobile social networks, social vehicular networks, mobile social clouds, social Internet-of-Things, and new paradigm of future social-aware communication networks - Social network graph modeling, analysis, measurements, and experiments using big data for a better understanding of social network influence, reputation, recommendation, and community structure - Data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, signal processing, and artificial intelligence in social media and social contexts - Trusted networking, privacy and security, user behaviors and dynamics, and digital right management for big data from social networks - Innovative social networks applications and services to mobile Internet, multimedia networks, mobile commerce, cyber-physical systems, and their potential social, economic, and cultural impacts - Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on social networks The authors of selected papers from this symposium will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for fast-track review and possible publication in the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society *IMPORTANT DATES* - Deadline for paper submission: 13 November 2022 (Firm) - Date for notification: 18 January 2023 - Deadline for final paper submission: 15 February 2023 *SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS* All papers for technical symposium should be submitted via EDAS. Full instructions on how to submit papers are provided on the IEEE ICC 2023 website: https://icc2023.ieee-icc.org/

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podcast episode on Elon Musk and Twitter
by Paul Levinson 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

20-min interview <https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vvOUqp4xhtAuJNWb83bL6?si=8baadd7233d447f6>conducted last night -- the link is to Spotify, but Bob Mann's Hot Media podcast is available in all the usual places -- PL

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CFP 2023 ECREA Communication and Democracy Section Conference
by Giuliana Sorce 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

The Communication & Democracy section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) is pleased to invite submissions for next year’s section conference titled TECHNOLOGY IN MOVEMENT, MOVEMENT IN TECHNOLOGY to be held at the University of Copenhagen from May 08-10, 2023. The event, which includes a for-credit PhD course, is co-organized by the grant project "To Use or Not to Use? A Relational Approach to ICTs as Repertoire of Contention" (Independent Research Fund Denmark) and The Center on Digital Culture and Communication (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania). Abstracts of 300-500 words are due by December 15, 2022. See full call below. For inquiries, feel free to contact the section management: Jun Liu(liujun[at]hum[dot]ku[dot]dk) or Giuliana Sorce (giuliana.sorce[at]uni-tuebingen[dot]de). * * * * * * * * * * ECREA Communication & Democracy international section conference and PhD course "Technology in Movement, Movement in Technology" Conference Website: https://comm.ku.dk/research/information-technology-and-connections/to-use-o… <https://comm.ku.dk/research/information-technology-and-connections/to-use-o…> Confirmed keynote speakers: Donatella della Porta / W. Lance Bennett / Hazem Kandil / Guobin Yang Scope: Rapidly emerging technologies have become a crucial component of movement and contention, ranging from strikes and protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution and war. We have witnessed the widespread use of digitally mediated communication during large-scale political protests in promoting social justice like Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement, but also intelligence and information warfare that contribute to precise strikes, effective surveillance, and reconnaissance in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Interest in this field endures, while interrogation of the role of technology in movement proliferates. Still, contestation over the nature and degree of effectiveness of technology in movement and contention remains. And theoretical and methodological reflections are badly needed to identify challenges and opportunities for advancing the field. This international conference seeks to address and advance such discussion. We look for original, rigorous, and creative contributions and reflections that examine technology and movement/contention. Submissions can be primarily theoretical or based on empirical studies but may also include innovative suggestions for overcoming methodological challenges. In all forms, the submissions should make explicit, original, and substantial contributions to the relevance and implications of the role of technology in movement. PhD Course: An international PhD course with the same theme on technology and movement will be offered in the conference. The participant will receive 3 European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) if s/he join both the conference with presentation and the PhD seminar (on 10 May, 2023), or 1.5 ECTS (for those who only join the PhD seminar). Possible Submission Topics: • Theoretical developments in the sociology of technology in movement • The historical, social, and political contingency of the role of technology in movement • Technology and gender, sexuality, feminism, and LGBTQI issues in movement • Technology and class, social, and digital inequalities in movement • Big data and computational approaches to studying technology and movement (as well as critiques of these approaches) • Safety and security issues of technology and movement • Comparative empirical analyses of technology and movement across (a) historical eras and/or (b) countries, regions, and societies • Legal, social and ethical issues of technology and movement • Promise and peril of technology and movement Key Dates: Deadline: Abstracts of 300-500 words excluding references must be sent to techinmovement(a)ku.dk <mailto:techinmovement@ku.dk> by December 15, 2022. Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2023 Deadline for Registration: February 28, 2023 Conference: May 8 - 9, 2023 (9:00-17:00 CEST) PhD Course: May 10, 2023 (9:00-17:00 CEST) -- Dr. Giuliana Sorce Eberhard Karls University Tübingen Institute of Media Studies Wilhelmstr. 50, 72074 Tübingen (Germany) E giuliana.sorce(a)uni-tuebingen.de T +49 (0)7071-2976817 W https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/137551 <https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/137551>

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Mastodon help?
by Dr. Emma Briant 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Hi folks, I was going to sign up but it’s saying I need to pick a server? Which should I choose? Will I be able to see others if I just pick any server? I don’t want to be unable to find anyone! This is very weird! Thanks, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin

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AoIR 2022: Undergraduate Teaching Workshop
by Holly Kruse 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Just one more day until the undergraduate teaching workshop! Some information: – If you’ve registered and I’ve sent you the link to the Google doc, but you haven’t yet entered your information in the table at the top, please do so. – If you haven’t registered but would like to attend, please check with AoIR association coordinator Michelle Gardner (ac(a)aoir.org <mailto:ac@aoir.org>) to find our if there are still spaces available, then email me for the link to the doc on which you should enter your information. – If you are auditing the workshop and entered your information, including email address, on the doc, I’ve sent you the Zoom link. The Zoom link is now also at the top of the table for auditors’ information. – If you are auditing the workshop and haven’t yet entered your information on the doc, please enter it and note the Zoom link. – If you would like to audit the workshop via Zoom, there are still spaces available. Email me, and I will send you the information. See you tomorrow! Holly ---- Holly Kruse Professor Department of Communications Rogers State University 1701 W. Will Rogers Blvd. Claremore, Oklahoma 74017 holly.kruse(a)gmail.com (preferred)

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WEBCAST NOV 1 : UK Internet Governance Forum 2022
by Joly MacFie 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

The UK just put their clocks back on Sunday, so are now running on UTC. The hot session on online safety is coming up at 10:20. It was requested that open captions be run on the livestream, which are via Google translate. Please be tolerant of muffs. Otter real time text is also running for the instant transcript, see ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/15917> for the link. [image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/15917>On *Tuesday 1 November 2022* the *UK Internet Governance Forum 2022* will be held in London. The *UK Internet Governance Forum <https://ukigf.org.uk/>* (UK IGF) is the national IGF for the United Kingdom. he purpose of IGFs is to facilitate a common understanding of how to maximise the opportunities of the internet whilst mitigating the risks and challenges that the internet presents. Messages from the UK IGF will be carried to the *Global IGF <https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2022>* in Addis Ababa at the end of November 2022. The livestream is provided by *Internet Society UK England Chapter. <https://isoc-e.org/>* *AGENDA https://ukigf.org.uk/2022-agenda/ <https://ukigf.org.uk/2022-agenda/>* *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/ukigf22 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/ukigf22>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3TNV2X3 <https://bit.ly/3TNV2X3>* *TWITTER #UKIGF22 <https://bit.ly/UKIGF22> @UKIGF @ISOCUKEngland @IntGovForum #netgov * *SIMULCASTS_* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/> *(AI Captions) *ARCHIVE_* *https://archive.org/details/ukigf22 <https://archive.org/details/ukigf22>* Permalink https://isoc.live/15917 -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: First Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

*** First Call for Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of UMAP 2023 is "Personalization in Times of Crisis”. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that critical periods (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and climate change, to name a few) can have on user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems; the focus is on investigations that capture how these trying times may have influenced user behavior and whether new models are required. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). Important Dates • Paper Abstracts: January 19, 2023 (mandatory) • Full paper: January 26, 2023 • Notification: April 11, 2023 • Camera-ready: May 2, 2023 • Conference: June 26 - 29, 2023 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) Conference Topics We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. For detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track please visit the UMAP 2023 website. Personalized Recommender Systems This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. Intelligent User Interfaces This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, and beneficial to society. Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. Research Methods and Reproducibility This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. Submission and Review Process Submissions for any of the aforementioned tracks should have a maximum length of *14 pages* (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) (Papers of any length up to 14 pages are encouraged; reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for the contribution.) Additional review criteria and submission link will be available shortly on the conference website: https://www.um.org/umap2023/ . Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. At least one author should register for the conference by the early registration date cut-off. UMAP uses a *double-blind* review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) Program Chairs • Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria • Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands Track Chairs Personalized Recommender Systems • Noemi Mauro (University of Torino, Italy) • Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA) • Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia) Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web • Daniela Godoy (ISISTAN - CONICET/UNICEN University, Argentina) • Cataldo Musto (University of Bari, Italy) Intelligent User Interfaces • Bart Knijnenburg (Clemson University, USA) • Katrien Verbert (KU Leuven, Belgium) • Wolfgang Wörndl (TU Munich, Germany) Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling Oleksandra Poquet (TU Munich, Germany) • Olga C. Santos (UNED, Spain) Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics • Michael Ekstrand (Boise State University, USA) • Peter Knees (TU Wien, Austria) Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Federica Cena (University of Torino, Italy) • Rita Orji (Dalhousie University, Canada) • Jun Zhao (Oxford University, England) Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction • Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) • Yi Zhang (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) • Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia) Research Methods and Reproducibility • Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) • Alan Said (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Contact information: umap2023-program(a)um.org

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communication +1 Volume 9, Issue 1 out now
by Peter Royal 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

On behalf of Zachary McDowell, Briankle Chang, and myself, I am pleased to announce the publication of Volume 9, Issue 1 of communication +1, with Issue 2 forthcoming in late November/early December. We thank the authors for their excellent contributions to this volume, which marks the journal’s ten-year anniversary, and we are excited to share these pieces. Please find below a description of Volume 9, a link to Issue 1, and a list of the contents of Issues 1 and 2. communication +1's 10-year anniversary: A Decade of Futures (of Communication) Edited by Zachary McDowell and Peter Royal What we proposed for this collection was to return again to explore the boundaries and the future of communication as an area of study and as an interdisciplinary and intersectional space of inquiry. communication +1's first issue, Futures of Communication (2012), did just that by addressing a wide variety of topics. The objective to address the "futures" of communication as a field of inquiry was and is not to identify research topics that may be popular or fashionable; rather, it is in the (re)establishment of "communication" as an enduring theoretical concept that cuts across the humanities and social sciences. The future of "communication" therefore designates its significance guaranteed by its interdisciplinary promise (but also arrives with its own concerns). What we offer here is a continuation of the belief that the question of “futures” is not a one-time endeavor, but instead a question that needs to be returned to time and time again, particularly in this age of changing media landscapes and new interdisciplinary discourse. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol9/iss1/ <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholarwo…> Issue 1 (out now) Zachary J. McDowell and Peter Royal - Introduction: Futures Florian Sprenger - Communication and one Zizi Papacharissi - Soft disciplines Amit Pinchevski and Johannes Bennke - Media, Mediation, Mediality John Durham Peters - What is Not a Medium? Patricia Pisters - Combustive Knowledge: Fire as Medium and Interface Peter Krapp - Secret Communication Andrea Guzman - Moving Human-Machine Communication Forward Through the Study of Non-Use and Failure David Gunkel - In the Face of the Robot Christina Vagt - Impossible Possible Machines Jonathan Sterne - Is Machine Listening Listening? Issue 2 (Late November / Early December) Briankle Chang - No Thing is not a Medium Greg Wise - Communication + Surveillance Lawrence Grossberg - Stories in Unlivable Times Cindy Tekobbe - Indigenous Communication Sean Johnson Andrews - What is hegemony now? Transformations in media, political economy, and cultural studies Florence Chee - Communication as Conscience Jeremy Hunsinger - Communication as Play Li Cornfeld - Demo at the End of the World: The Limits of Techno-futurist Performance Steve Jones - Communication Technology and the Suspension of Disbelief About the Journal 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 a space for thoughtful experiments and for communicating these experiments. communication +1 is an open access journal supported by University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries and the Department of Communication communicationplusone.org <http://communicationplusone.org/>. Editors Zachary J. McDowell, University of Illinois Chicago Peter Royal, University of Illinois Chicago Briankle Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst Best, Peter ———————————————— Peter Royal (he/him/his) Editor, communication +1 <https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/> PhD Student Department of Communication University of Illinois Chicago

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