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%2Fscholarworks.umass.edu%2Fcpo%2Fvol9%2Fiss1%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cproyal2%40groute.uic.edu%7C14661cf0f48246a02c8b08dabb7d2a54%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638028443540131380%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Y%2Fs2gWQkxy%2Bq9luiD8WmdaeCIgBYJtToW61iiXceqe8%3D&reserved=0> 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