72ND ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (ICA) CONFERENCE

05/27/2022 00:00:00

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The hybrid 72nd Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference

Regional Hub – Jakarta

 

 

Background

 

Last year International Communication Association is initiating Regional Hub, an amplification of the annual conference. The regional hub is held offline and online in the city of the host, with participants around the area. This year the School of Communication, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, is approved to have Greater Jakarta Hub for the second time. Besides Indonesia, there are also ten other regional hubs in South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, India, China, Russia, Nigeria, and Chile.

 

 

The hubs aim to create a global network of hubs during this conference that may grow into their own robust ICA communities. For further information on Regional Hubs please visit: https://www.icahdq.org/page/2022RegionalHubs. 

 

Based on the aim of the regional hub therefore the theme of this event is the same as the annual conference 2022. The ICA 2022 conference theme One World, One Network?! invites reimagining communication scholarship on globalization and networks. The use of the interrobang glyph - a superposition of the exclamation and question punctuation marks – seeks to simultaneously celebrate and problematize the “one-ness” in the theme.

 

Arguably nothing celebrates the “one-ness” of the world more than our existential commitment to the sustainability of our planet. Indeed, the blue marble photograph of Earth taken by the crew of Apollo 17 in 1972 is one of the most reproduced images in history. In other areas, “One World” remains a contested slogan. Marshall McLuhan invoked visions of a “global village” in the 1960s. A 1980 UNESCO report titled “Many Voices, One World” introduced the phrase “New World Information and Communication Order” to recommend changes to address inequities in global media representations. The proliferation of the Internet, social media, and mobile technologies since the turn of the 21st century have generated a robust debate on the promises and perils of globalization.

 

Communication scholars have also interrogated the “one-ness” of networks among individuals, families, children, organizations, communities, cultures, media systems, and nation-states, among others. More recently, scholars have explored the communicative implications of networks in the human brain as well as networks of humans and autonomous agents (robots, AI). Networks offer evocative metaphors, theories, and analytical tools to help us understand communication processes and structures that undergird a wide range of domains. Communication scholars have deployed network approaches to understand education, healthcare, sustainability, policymaking, as well as work and organization. They have probed the interplay between networks and journalism, media governance, popular culture, visual representations, and online gaming. And, they have explored how networks enable and undermine social support, social justice, and social movements. Networks also offer us a lens to problematize - and address - issues such as the geopolitical fragmentation of the Internet (“Splinternet”), cyberattacks, disinformation, exclusion, extremism, hate, marginalization, oppression, polarization, and racism. In addition to helping us reimagine our engagement with globalization and networks, advances in technologies are spurring new computational modes of intellectual inquiry alongside more established empirical, interpretive, discursive, rhetorical, and critical approaches.

 

The theme invites research, reflection, and critique of the “One World, One Network?!” discourse in communication studies on questions including (but not limited to) the following:

 

• How do we theorize and model interdependent networks nested at many levels (from brain cells to societies) to better understand and enable how communicative processes and structures shape our world?
• How do global networks organize and mobilize socio-political contestations online and offline? How can networks of resistance, solidarity, and counter-power through regional formations both beyond and beneath the nation-state shape “Another World”?
• How are advances in artificial intelligence, robotization, the Internet of Things, genetic engineering, and neuroscience, among others, contributing to the future trajectories of algorithmically infused societies and networks, at work and play, around the world?
• How are media systems – old and new - nurturing networks of “intimate publics” and “counter publics” among communities around the globe?
• How and why do some networks infiltrate mainstream media systems with disinformation, propaganda, and hate while other networks find themselves ignored, censored, or targeted?
• How are networks contributing to images of the Global South produced and consumed in the Global North - and vice versa? How do these asymmetries shape inequities in our responses to global challenges such as pandemics and sustainable development?
• How can networks change the lived experiences – training, mentoring, publishing, co-authoring, and recruiting - of under-represented scholars around the world in the field of communication? How do we square the circle of “oneness” while promoting the visibility of minoritized positions? What must we do to decolonize communication scholarship and address methodological imperialism? How do we expand the notion of “One World” to also signal, inclusively, “All Our World(s)”?

 

Venue

 

Date     : Friday - Saturday, 27 - 28 May 2022

Time     : 08:00 – 17:30

Room   : Yustinus Building 14-15^th Fl. – Unika Atma Jaya, Semanggi Campus

 

Program

 

Friday, 27 May 2022

 

08:00 – 08:30 registration & coffee morning

08:30 – 09:00 Welcoming and Opening

              -  Coordinator of Jakarta Hub – DR. Dorien Kartikawangi

              -  Chair of ASPIKOM – DR. Muhammad Sulhan

              -  Dean of FIABIKOM Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia – DR. Eko Widodo

              -  Official picture

 

09:00 – 11:00 Session 1. One world, one network?! Multilevel Communication Perspectives

              - Prof. Billy Sarwono, Universitas Indonesia

              - Prof. Atwar Bajari, Universitas Padjadjaran

              - DR. Agus Sudibyo, Dewan Pers

                Moderator: Dr. Satria Kusuma

 

11:00 – 13:00 Praying & Lunch break

13:00 – 17:15 Session 2-4. Connect to Paris

- Theorizing Media Activism: Towards Understanding the Communicative Dynamics for Movements in Digital Times
Chairs(s): Anne Kaun (Södertörn U) 
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM; Room 252B (Palais des Congres)

Moderator: Natalia Widiasari, M.Si.

 

- Hybrid Session: Images and People: Interactive Methodologies for Understanding Visual Communication
Chairs(s): Hanna Morris (U of Pennsylvania)
Discussant(s): Allison Kwesell (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U)
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM; Hyatt - Regency 15 (Hyatt)

Moderator: IGN. Adithya, M.A.

 

- The Empowerment Communication Practices, Processes, and Paradigms of Emerging Social Justice Networks
Chairs(s): Alice Mattoni (U of Bologna)
Discussant(s): Claudia Magallanes Blanco (Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla)
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM; Room 342B (Palais des Congres)

Moderator: Avianto Nugroho, M.Si.

 

17:15 – 17:30 closing day 1

 

Saturday, 28 May 2022

 

09:00 – 09:30 registration & coffee morning

 

09:30 – 10:00 Session 4.

Social listening on Work from Home: A Network Analysis – DR. Dorien Kartikawangi;

Moderator: Alfonso Harrison, M.Si (Connect to Thailand)

 

10:00 – 10:30 Session 5.

Closing Gender Gaps in Digital Spaces through Digital and Financial Literacy – DR. Nia Sarinastiti;

Moderator: Stefanus Andriano, M.Si.

 

10:30 – 11:00 Session 6.

Public Policy – Prof. Gati Gayatri, National Research and Innovation Agency;

Moderator: Deddy Irwandi, M.Si. LSPR Communication and Business Institute

 

11:00 – 11:30 Session 7.

Communication Ethics – Prof. Alois A. Nugroho;

Moderator: DR. Sarwititi Sarwoprasodjo, Intitut Pertanian Bogor

 

11:30 – 12:00 Lunch break

 

12:15 – 15:30 Connect to Paris

- Session 8.

One world, one network?! Leaders Perspectives:

DR. Muhamad Sulhan - Chair of ASPIKOM/UGM

Prof. Noshir Contractor - President-Elect of ICA

DR. Agustinus Prasetyantoko - Rector of AJCU

 

Book Launching

07:15 AM – 08:00 AM (Paris – Jakarta connection room)

Moderator: Dorien Kartikawangi

 

- Session 9.

QualifiCATions of Algorithmic Uses and Failures Within Systems
Chairs(s): Aleksandra Urman (U of Zurich)
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM; Hyatt - Lab 10 (Hyatt)

Moderator: DR. Nia Sarinastiti

 

- Session 10.

Uncertainty Reduction Strategy in Interpersonal Relationship of Different Cultures through Online Dating Applications

– El Chris Natalia

09:30 AM – 10:45 AM

 

Room 352A (Palais des Congres), Internationalizing Interpersonal Communication Studies: A Roundtable Discussion,

Roundtable proposal, Interpersonal Communication, Chairs: Leena Mikkola, Tampere U; Chairs: Jeffrey Hall, U of Kansas;

Discussant: Elizabeth Dorrance Hall, Michigan State U; Discussant: Jimmie Manning, U of Nevada, Reno;

Discussant: Alexander Schouten, Tilburg U; Discussant: Liesel Sharabi, Arizona State U

Moderator: El Chris Natalia, M.Si.

 

16:00 – 16:30 Closing ceremony

- Conclusion & Recommendation (DR. Dorien Kartikawangi)

- Closing Speech from the Dean (DR. Eko Widodo)

Official picture

 

General Requirements:

 

• Strictly applied health protocol based on the latest government regulations.
• Bring a tumbler, food equipment, pray equipment.
• Commits to participate for two days
• Commits to be active in discussion
• Commits to writing short conclusions and recommendation
• ICA Headquarters’ requirement:

When/if you talk about your event on social media, please use the tags #ICA22 and #ICA22hubs so that you can help create a sense of community around these events as being part of the main conference. We hope to see photographs of our various regional hubs shared on social media during the conference!

 

Committee:

 

Steering Committee

- Prof. Alois A. Nugroho

- Dr. Eko Widodo (Dean of FIABIKOM)

- Rosdiana Sijabat, Ph. D. (Vice Dean of FIABIKOM)

 

Organizing Committee

- Coordinator                  : Dr. Dorien Kartikawangi, M.Si.

- Academic Partnership : Dr. Nia Sarinastiti, M.A.

                                         Adre Zaif Rachman

- Finance                        : V. Rini Widiyastuti

- Secretariat                   : Dian Sekaring Putri

                                       : Freddy Marbun

- Program                       : Dr. Satria Kusuma, M.Si.

                                       : Natalia Widiasari, M.Si.

- Registration                 : El Chris Natalia, M.Si.

                                       : MarkComm – students’ staff

- Hospitality                    : Anastasia Nawang Sasmita

- Documentation            : Alfonso Harrison, M.Si.

                                       : Lab – students’ staff

- Equipment & IT            : Stefanus Andriano, M.Si.

                                       : Antonius Sutarno

                                       : BPPS

                                       : BSTI