8.30 – 8.45 Welcome Addresses
Indigo Ballroom D
8.45 – 10.15 Parallel Session 1: Histories of Audience Research: Theoretical Implications and Change over Time
Indigo Ballroom D
Chair: Dave Park
- Of Docile and Unruly Audiences: On the Historic Contingency of Audience Conceptions (Anne Bartsch, Christoph Neuberger & Matthias Hastall)
- Likes and Dislikes: The Lazarsfeld-Stanton Program Analyzer and the Theory of Media Affects (Blake Hallinan)
- Audience Labor in the Long History of the Attention Economy: The Struggle for Control over the Conditions of Consumption (Brice Nixon)
- Perfecting the Body Count: Audience Measurement and the Gendered Biopolitics of Passive Metering (Jennifer Hessler)
- Data Journalism and Data-Driven Audience Understanding: History and Future (Qun Wang)
8.45 – 10.15 Parallel Session 2: Active Audiences & Audience Agency
Indigo Ballroom H
Chair: Samantha Oliver
- Informing Coverage of Evangelical Emergence: Letters to the Editor Demonstrate Unacknowledged Audience Agency (Carole Lee)
- Esperanto Journalism and Readers as ‘Managers’: A Transnational Participatory Audience (Kevin Grieves)
- From Audience to Visibility Seekers: The Changing Role of Chinese Social Media Users (Li Mengying)
- Like If You Remember! On the Formation of Past Audiences in Online Communities (Manuel Menke)
10.15 – 10.40 Coffee Break
10.40 – 11.20 Keynote 1
Indigo Ballroom D
Sonia Livingstone
Mediation or Mediatization? Where Do Audiences Figure in This Debate?
Chair: Thomas Birkner
11.30 – 12.10 Keynote 2
Indigo Ballroom D
Sabina Mihelj
Historical Audience Research: Why Does It Matter and How Should We Do It?
Chair: Christian Schwarzenegger
12.10 – 13.15 Lunchbreak
13.15 – 14.45 Parallel Session 3: Audiences as They Were Then and Are Remembered Now
Indigo Ballroom D
Chair: Gabriele Balbi
- Social Mirrors and Political Reflections: Revisiting Cinematic Audiences of Marcos Dictatorial Philippines (Marc Agon Pacoma)
- The Development of TV Audiences over Time in Brazil: A Generational Portrait of Television Usage in Lower-Middle Class Families (Joe Straubhaar & Deborah Castro)
- Resurrecting the Audience in U.S. Daytime Soap Opera History (Elana Levine)
- Olympic Audiences: Past & Present (Katerina Girginova)
13.15 – 14.45 Parallel Session 4: Strategies & Sources for the Reconstruction of Historical Users and Audiences
Indigo Ballroom H
Chair: Annie Rudd
- Reconstructing Audiences’ Media Practices beyond Oral History (Kirsten Drotner)
- Audience by Implication: Discourse Structures in Primary Documents (Kate Dunsmore)
- Rise and Fall of the Public: Communication Practices and Media Use in the Diaries of Victor Klemperer (Peter Gentzel)
- The Circulating American Magazines Project: Using Audit Bureau of Circulations Data to Understand Historical Magazine Audiences (Edward Timke)
- Between Audience Studies and Follow-up Communication: How to Reconstruct The Cosby Show‘s Audience of the 1980s and Early 1990s? (Andre Dechert)
14.45 – 15.15 Coffee Break
15.15 – 16.45 Parallel Sessions 5: Concepts & Challenges for Historical Audience Research
Indigo Ballroom D
Chair: Kevin Grieves
- The Domestication Concept and its Analytical Power for Researching Audiences from a Historical Perspective (Corinna Peil, Jutta Röser & Kathrin Müller)
- Electrical Extensions: Applying Media Archaeology to Communication History (Jaime Lee Kirtz)
- Switch Off! Media Rejection and Non-Usage of Media Technologies as a Resource for (Historical) Audience and Media Culture Research (Christian Schwarzenegger & Anne Kaun)
- The Power of Feedback: Using Listener Reports to Take Editorial Decisions and Reconstruct Listening Practices (Nelson Ribeiro)
- Challenges of Researching European Audience History (Susanne Eichner, Elizabeth Prommer & Yesim Kaptan)
15.00 – 16.45 Parallel Sessions 6: Images of the Audience in Public, Popular and Professional Discourse
Indigo Ballroom H
Chair: Nicole Maurantonio
- “Getting by the Jaded Telegraph Editor”: Images of the Audience at Associated Press in the 1920s (Gene Allen)
- Why Marmaduke Mizzle Fooled No One: Bonding Over Fake News in the Era of Journalistic Professionalization (Andie Tucher)
- Analog Audiences: Remembering Reader Relations at The Washington Post (Karin Assmann)
- Fictional Audiences: The Depiction of TV Viewers in American Novels (Cordula Nitsch)
- The Audience in Media Policy: An Historical Perspective on Ascertainment and its Lessons for Contemporary Media Policy and Practice (Philip M. Napoli, Kathleen McCollough & Anne B. Napoli)
16.45 – 17.00 Concluding Remarks, Farewell
Indigo Ballroom D
Preconference Organizers: Christian Schwarzenegger, Thomas Birkner, Kevin Grieves and Samantha Oliver.
Contact: Christian Schwarzenegger, christian.schwarzenegger@phil.uni-augsburg.de
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Participants: Download the conference papers
8:10 – 8:30 – Welcome
8:30 – 9:50 – Parallel Sessions 1 & 2
Room 1 – Crossing the Iron Curtain: Producing and Exchanging Media Content during the Cold War
- Dreaming of European Media during the Cold War: Louis Armand and the Tour Lumière Cybernétique Project (1965-1971), Dominique Trudel
- The transnational past as global present: Challenges to journalistic practice at Radio Free Europe during the cold war, Susan D. Haas
- ‘Colossal Misunderstanding’: The Transnational Media Narration of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Julia Sonnevend
Chair: Richard Popp
Room 2 – Intercultural Exchange and Media Diplomacy
- Transforming Symbolisms: Reinterpreting the Goddess of Democracy as the Victims of Communism Memorial, Samantha Oliver
- Managing China’s Image Through Their Eyes: Co-optation, Co-operation and Western Journalists in Wartime China, 1937-1945, Yong Volz
- Shifting Kanji transnationally: Japan’s national language program and a U.S. Japanese-language newspaper before and after WWII, Kristin Gustafson & Rena Kawasaki
- Beyond Western Europe: public service broadcasting as a global historical moment, Jerome Bourdon & Nahuel Ribke
Chair: Nour Halabi
9:50 – 10:10 – Coffee Break
10:10 – 11:30 – Parallel Sessions 3 & 4
Room 1 – News, Music and Propaganda on the Airwaves
- Listening in Secret: The BBC Polish Service 1939-45, Suzanne Franks & Agnieszka Morriss
- Reaching the Colonial Territories in Africa and Asia: Portuguese Media Content travelling to the Empire, Nelson Ribeiro, Rogério Santos & Sílvio Santos
- Transnational Modernity: The Case of Radio Ceylon, Biswarup Sen
- Radio ‘in Translation’ – how the pioneers of UK independent local radio (ILR) in the 1970s adapted, and were inspired by, the practices and output of commercial radio in North America and Australasia, Richard Rudin
Chair: David Park
Room 2 – Transborder Influences on Media Production and Content
- ‘Americanization of the Press’: The Success of American Journalism in the Habsburg Empire, 1850-1910, Gabriele Melischek & Josef Seethaler
- Pacific Crossings? American Progressivism and the Making of Journalism in China from the Late 19th Century to 1920s, Junbin Su
- The German immigration and its impact on the development of an advertising industry: The Case of the Land of Israel in the 1930s, Osnat Roth-Cohen
- Transnational Magazine Work in the Interwar Period: Erich Salomon and Stefan Lorant, Annie Rudd
Chair: Manuel Menke
11:30 – 12:10 – Keynote
How Holidays Travel: The Case of Purim, Elihu Katz & Menahem Blondheim
- Chair: Nelson Ribeiro
- Discussant: Michael Schudson
12:10 – 13:00 – Lunch
13:00 – 14:20 – Parallel Sessions 5 & 6
Room 1 – Empires, Surveillance & Control
- An Empire that Innis Missed: Time and Space Biases in the Persian Empire according to the Biblical Book of Esther, Elihu Katz & Menahem Blondheim
- The British Ministry of Information as Transnational Publisher, Marc Wiggam
- BBC Monitoring – Watching the World, Suzanne Franks
Chair: Nour Halabi
Room 2 – Narratives and Reception in Transnational Media
- The PRESSA (International Press Exhibition Cologne 1928) and the conceptualisation of the press as a transnational agent of peace, Stephanie Seul
- Broadcasting in the Cause of Peace, David Goodman
- Spreading Vice: The establishment of Vice Magazine and Vice Media as transnational phenomenon in the 1990s, Henrik Bødker
- Transnational media-reception as a mundane practice: Historical development of routines, motives and logics of cross-border media use, Christian Schwarzenegger
Chair: Nicole Maurantonio
14:20 – 14:40 – Coffee Break
14:40 – 16:00 – Parallel Sessions 7 & 8
Room 1 – Communicating Transnational History
- History sells! But what kind of historical narratives are sold? An analysis of the presentation of transnational history in European popular history magazines, Manuel Menke & Susanne Kinnebrock
- Producing global media memories: Media events and the power dynamics of transnational television history, Lars Lundgren & Christine E. Evans
- “The 10 most evil people in history”– How Ordinary People Communicate History in Social Media: (Trans)national Perspectives, Historical Factuality and the race for maximized attention, Christian Schwarzenegger
- Transnational History and Media Memories: Facebook as Transnational Digital Archive?, Anne Kaun & Fredrik Stiernstedt
Chair: Thomas Birkner
Respondent: Gabrielle Balbi
Room 2 – Media Form and Content: Transnational Circulation
- Learn to produce classic TV: BBC’s influences on China’s early television drama production, George Guo
- “Fashion” in the Socialism New China: The Chinese version of international fashion magazines during the 1980s and 1990s, Xiyang Tang
- Beyond Orientalism, or who’s the “great imitator?”: Critical reflections on Japanese transcultural influence, Fabienne Darling-Wolf
- Japanese animation as a model of cross-cultural communication, Vincenzo De Masi
Chair: Nelson Ribeiro
16:10 – 17:00 – Roundtable
Researching Transnational Media History: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges
- Barbie Zelizer
- Sandra Braman
- Susanne Kinnebrock
Chair: David Park
8:30 AM
Welcome
8:40 AM – 10:00 AM
Communications and the State in the Early Modern Era
- “The Cotswold Olimpick Games: Sport, Politics and Faith in early modern England,” Mark Brewin (The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States)
- “Misunderstanding the Mongols: Intercultural Communication in Three Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Travel Accounts,” Kathryn Montalbano (Columbia University, New York, United States)
- “A Republic Run as a Chamber of Commerce: The Role of the State in Structuring Communications in Renaissance Venice,” Juraj Kittler (St. Lawrence University, New York, United States)
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“The Post Office and State Formation in World Historical Time,” Lane Harris (Furman University, South Carolina, United States)
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Moderator: Rick Popp (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States)
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Coffee
10:15 AM – 11:35 AM
Communication Networks — Mail, Telegraph, Telephone
- “Communications and the States: The Swiss Influence on the origins of ITU, 1855-1876,” Gabriele Balbi (Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland), Simone Fari, Giuseppe Richeri.
- “Mail Order Fraud, Postal Inspectors, and the Remaking of Consumer Capitalism in the United States, 1850-1900,” Rick Popp (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States)
- “Media of Resistance: Organizing the Anti-Colonial Movements in the Dutch East Indies, 1920-1927,” Rianne Subijanto (University of Colorado Boulder, United States)
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“International Copyright and Access to Education: A History,” Sara Bannerman (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
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Moderator: Christine Evans (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States)
11:35 AM – 12:40 PM
Lunch
- Participants provide their own lunch
12:40 PM – 2:00 PM
International Dimensions of Broadcasting and the State
- “News and Propaganda in the Cold War: Associated Press and the Voice of America, 1945-1952,” Gene Allen (Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada)
- “Colonization through Broadcasting: Rádio Clube de Moçambique and the Promotion of Portuguese Colonial Policy,” Nelson Ribeiro (Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal)
- “A House Divided: The SABC during World War Two,” Ruth Teer-Tomaselli (University KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
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“Subsidizing Content and Conduit: Global Wireless Communications and the State,” Heidi Tworek (Harvard University, United States)
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Moderator: Dominique Trudel (New York University, United States)
Communications and the State: The Case of Germany
- “A Story of Transition and Failure? The State and the East German Media Reform 1989-1991,” Mandy Tröger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
- “Presence and Absence: The Berlin Wall as a Strategic Platform,” Samantha Oliver (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
- “Heads of State as Communicators: A Comparative Analysis of State of the Union Addresses of American Presidents and Regierungserklärungen of German Chancellors since 1945/49,” Thomas Birkner (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany)
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“The Necessary Restraints of National Security: Cold War U.S. Government-Journalism Negotiations and the Communist Reaction,” Mike Conway (Indiana University, United States) and Kevin Grieves (Ohio University, United States)
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Moderator: Dave Park (Lake Forest College, United States)
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Coffee
2:15 PM – 3:35 PM
The State and Infrastructure
- “How the French State did not Construct Nicholas Schöffer’s Tour Lumière Cybernétique?,” Dominique Trudel (New York University, United States)
- “Minitel and the State,” Julien Mailland (Indiana University, United States) and Kevin Driscoll (Microsoft Research, United States)
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“Connected and Divided: Satellite Networks as Infrastructures of Live Television,” Christine Evans (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States) and Lars Lundgren (Södertörn University, Sweden)
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Moderator: Mike Conway (Indiana University, United States)
The State and Communication Across Borders
- “Media, Communications and the State in the Nordic Region: The History of the Media Welfare State,” Trine Syvertsen and Gunn Enli (University of Oslo, Norway), Ole J. Mjøs and Hallvard Moe (University of Bergen, Norway)
- “‘Home Is Where Your Heart Is’: Mediated Longing for the State,” Ekaterina Kalinina (Södertörn University, Sweden) and Manuel Menke (Augsburg University, Germany)
- “Theorizing Political Communication Policies,” Tim Vos (University of Missouri, United States)
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“Commercial cross-border radio: Popular culture, advertising, and the erosion of state communication power in comparative perspective: Britain, India and America,” John Jenks (Dominican University, United States)
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Moderator: Heidi Tworek (Harvard University, United States)
3:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Closing Plenary: The State of the Field
- Daniel Hallin (University of California, San Diego, United States)
- Richard John (Columbia University, United States)
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Adrian Johns (University of Chicago, United States)
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Moderator: Michael Stamm (Michigan State University, United States)
Preconference Organizers: Gene Allen, Ryerson University and Michael Stamm, Michigan State University.
Contact: Gene Allen, gene.allen@ryerson.ca
The Communication History Division of ICA had a highly successful sponsored preconference, “Making Sense of Memory & History,” May 22, 2014 at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI). An impressive day of panels and roundtables were scheduled, and the conference was attended by a cross-field, cross-disciplinary program featuring scholars within communication studies, rhetoric, public history, and the digital humanities more broadly.
Featured panelists include:
- Dr. S. Elizabeth Bird, University of South Florida
- Dr. Carolyn Kitch, Temple University
- Dr. Carolyn Marvin, University of Pennsylvania
- Dr. Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania
Preconference Outline
History and memory—two modes of thinking about the past that often appear at odds—have an intimate, albeit at times strained, intellectual relationship. Despite the argued antagonism between history and memory studies, historians
Preconference Organizers: Nicole Maurantonio, University of Richmond and David W. Park, Lake Forest College.
Contact: Nicole Maurantonio, nmaurant@richmond.edu
This preconference seeks to broaden, internationalize, and advance the history of communication study as a family of overlapping configurations and practices. It aims to bring together scholars from ICA, ECREA, IAMCR, NCA, and select rhetoric societies in an effort to stoke new, cross-national and cross-field conversations about the study of communication in long and broad historical perspective. It aspires to push the empirical and theoretical boundaries of histories and pre-histories of the field by attending to overlooked research areas, emerging conceptual orientations, and new axes of understanding and comparison among distinct traditions cutting across communication, media studies, cultural studies, journalism, and rhetoric, among other fields—and across institutional, intellectual, social, cultural, discursive, and material history. More specifically, it takes as its aims:
(1). To further internationalize the history of the fields and subfields of communication through papers that
- are centered on world regions or nations that have received relatively little historical attention to this point;
- are focused on the history of trans-national flows of influence, ideas, paradigms, texts, methods, research technologies, people, politics, power, other agentic forces contributing to the study of communication in the past; or
- take up comparative analysis across nations or regions.
(2). To deepen, enrich, and empirically fill out the history of communication study through papers that
- throw light on understudied dimensions of the academic study of communication as it developed over time;
- make use of archival materials, oral histories, or other primary sources that have not found their way into the published history of the field to date, or have been underused;
- advance a social history of the field that goes beyond ‘great men,’ landmark texts, and dominant forms of research—drawing attention, e.g., to patterns of labor, ordinary practitioners, pedagogical texts and practices, and points of articulation with everyday life and with publics beyond the academy;
- provide institutional histories of important departments, journals, and professional associations
- apply historical consideration to domains that have received less attention than some other subfields in the extant historiography of the field, including: internet studies, interpersonal communication research, forgotten avenues of communication research, marginal formations of all kinds, and more;
- bring newer or under-utilized theoretical paradigms and analytic frameworks to bear on the history of the field—e.g. new materialisms, archaeology, post-colonial and critical race theory, feminist theory, and queer theory; or
- critically engage existing histories and revise dominant understandings of individuals, institutions, ideas, schools, and practices.
(3). To broaden and cross-fertilize the history of communication study and related academic and non-academic fields through papers that
- consider commercial, governmental, philanthropic, religious, therapeutic, or other non-academic versions of the study of communication as a family of social practices; or
- draw out points of intellectual or socio-historical connection among communication-related fields whose histories and presents have often been kept separate of one another—e.g. rhetoric, hermeneutics, literary studies, journalism studies/Zeitungwissenschaft, information, media studies, cultural studies, and social scientific communication research.
Preconference Organizers: David W. Park, Lake Forest College, and Peter Simonson, University of Colorado.
Contact: David W. Park, park@lfc.edu
This ICA preconference brought together communication scholars pursuing historiographic work as well as various historians addressing areas of interest to communication scholars. The preconference succeeded in its goal to provoke intersections and encounters to set in motion potential interventions with urgent issues currently facing our discipline, schools, communities, and countries.
The day’s schedule remains online
- Keynote address by Anna Everett, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
- Invited scholar panel, “What Counts as Communication History?” featuring Norma Coates, Don Wright Faculty of Music and Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario; and Christian Schwarzenegger, Institute for Media and Educational Technology, Augsburg University.
- Interactive Korsakow System documentary by Mary Elizabeth Luka
- Paper presentations from South Africa, Israel, Mexico, Canada, and the United States on recovered histories, critical practice, policy engagements, and interdisciplinarity
Organized by Travers Scott and Devon Powers. Questions? Contact Travers Scott
Participants: Download the conference papers
8:10 – 8:30 – Welcome
8:30 – 9:50 – Parallel Sessions 1 & 2
Room 1 – Crossing the Iron Curtain: Producing and Exchanging Media Content during the Cold War
- Dreaming of European Media during the Cold War: Louis Armand and the Tour Lumière Cybernétique Project (1965-1971), Dominique Trudel
- The transnational past as global present: Challenges to journalistic practice at Radio Free Europe during the cold war, Susan D. Haas
- ‘Colossal Misunderstanding’: The Transnational Media Narration of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Julia Sonnevend
Chair: Richard Popp
Room 2 – Intercultural Exchange and Media Diplomacy
- Transforming Symbolisms: Reinterpreting the Goddess of Democracy as the Victims of Communism Memorial, Samantha Oliver
- Managing China’s Image Through Their Eyes: Co-optation, Co-operation and Western Journalists in Wartime China, 1937-1945, Yong Volz
- Shifting Kanji transnationally: Japan’s national language program and a U.S. Japanese-language newspaper before and after WWII, Kristin Gustafson & Rena Kawasaki
- Beyond Western Europe: public service broadcasting as a global historical moment, Jerome Bourdon & Nahuel Ribke
Chair: Nour Halabi
9:50 – 10:10 – Coffee Break
10:10 – 11:30 – Parallel Sessions 3 & 4
Room 1 – News, Music and Propaganda on the Airwaves
- Listening in Secret: The BBC Polish Service 1939-45, Suzanne Franks & Agnieszka Morriss
- Reaching the Colonial Territories in Africa and Asia: Portuguese Media Content travelling to the Empire, Nelson Ribeiro, Rogério Santos & Sílvio Santos
- Transnational Modernity: The Case of Radio Ceylon, Biswarup Sen
- Radio ‘in Translation’ – how the pioneers of UK independent local radio (ILR) in the 1970s adapted, and were inspired by, the practices and output of commercial radio in North America and Australasia, Richard Rudin
Chair: David Park
Room 2 – Transborder Influences on Media Production and Content
- ‘Americanization of the Press’: The Success of American Journalism in the Habsburg Empire, 1850-1910, Gabriele Melischek & Josef Seethaler
- Pacific Crossings? American Progressivism and the Making of Journalism in China from the Late 19th Century to 1920s, Junbin Su
- The German immigration and its impact on the development of an advertising industry: The Case of the Land of Israel in the 1930s, Osnat Roth-Cohen
- Transnational Magazine Work in the Interwar Period: Erich Salomon and Stefan Lorant, Annie Rudd
Chair: Manuel Menke
11:30 – 12:10 – Keynote
How Holidays Travel: The Case of Purim, Elihu Katz & Menahem Blondheim
- Chair: Nelson Ribeiro
- Discussant: Michael Schudson
12:10 – 13:00 – Lunch
13:00 – 14:20 – Parallel Sessions 5 & 6
Room 1 – Empires, Surveillance & Control
- An Empire that Innis Missed: Time and Space Biases in the Persian Empire according to the Biblical Book of Esther, Elihu Katz & Menahem Blondheim
- The British Ministry of Information as Transnational Publisher, Marc Wiggam
- BBC Monitoring – Watching the World, Suzanne Franks
Chair: Nour Halabi
Room 2 – Narratives and Reception in Transnational Media
- The PRESSA (International Press Exhibition Cologne 1928) and the conceptualisation of the press as a transnational agent of peace, Stephanie Seul
- Broadcasting in the Cause of Peace, David Goodman
- Spreading Vice: The establishment of Vice Magazine and Vice Media as transnational phenomenon in the 1990s, Henrik Bødker
- Transnational media-reception as a mundane practice: Historical development of routines, motives and logics of cross-border media use, Christian Schwarzenegger
Chair: Nicole Maurantonio
14:20 – 14:40 – Coffee Break
14:40 – 16:00 – Parallel Sessions 7 & 8
Room 1 – Communicating Transnational History
- History sells! But what kind of historical narratives are sold? An analysis of the presentation of transnational history in European popular history magazines, Manuel Menke & Susanne Kinnebrock
- Producing global media memories: Media events and the power dynamics of transnational television history, Lars Lundgren & Christine E. Evans
- “The 10 most evil people in history”– How Ordinary People Communicate History in Social Media: (Trans)national Perspectives, Historical Factuality and the race for maximized attention, Christian Schwarzenegger
- Transnational History and Media Memories: Facebook as Transnational Digital Archive?, Anne Kaun & Fredrik Stiernstedt
Chair: Thomas Birkner
Respondent: Gabrielle Balbi
Room 2 – Media Form and Content: Transnational Circulation
- Learn to produce classic TV: BBC’s influences on China’s early television drama production, George Guo
- “Fashion” in the Socialism New China: The Chinese version of international fashion magazines during the 1980s and 1990s, Xiyang Tang
- Beyond Orientalism, or who’s the “great imitator?”: Critical reflections on Japanese transcultural influence, Fabienne Darling-Wolf
- Japanese animation as a model of cross-cultural communication, Vincenzo De Masi
Chair: Nelson Ribeiro
16:10 – 17:00 – Roundtable
Researching Transnational Media History: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges
- Barbie Zelizer
- Sandra Braman
- Susanne Kinnebrock
Chair: David Park
8:30 AM
Welcome
8:40 AM – 10:00 AM
Communications and the State in the Early Modern Era
- “The Cotswold Olimpick Games: Sport, Politics and Faith in early modern England,” Mark Brewin (The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States)
- “Misunderstanding the Mongols: Intercultural Communication in Three Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Travel Accounts,” Kathryn Montalbano (Columbia University, New York, United States)
- “A Republic Run as a Chamber of Commerce: The Role of the State in Structuring Communications in Renaissance Venice,” Juraj Kittler (St. Lawrence University, New York, United States)
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“The Post Office and State Formation in World Historical Time,” Lane Harris (Furman University, South Carolina, United States)
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Moderator: Rick Popp (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States)
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Coffee
10:15 AM – 11:35 AM
Communication Networks — Mail, Telegraph, Telephone
- “Communications and the States: The Swiss Influence on the origins of ITU, 1855-1876,” Gabriele Balbi (Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland), Simone Fari, Giuseppe Richeri.
- “Mail Order Fraud, Postal Inspectors, and the Remaking of Consumer Capitalism in the United States, 1850-1900,” Rick Popp (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States)
- “Media of Resistance: Organizing the Anti-Colonial Movements in the Dutch East Indies, 1920-1927,” Rianne Subijanto (University of Colorado Boulder, United States)
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“International Copyright and Access to Education: A History,” Sara Bannerman (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
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Moderator: Christine Evans (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States)
11:35 AM – 12:40 PM
Lunch
- Participants provide their own lunch
12:40 PM – 2:00 PM
International Dimensions of Broadcasting and the State
- “News and Propaganda in the Cold War: Associated Press and the Voice of America, 1945-1952,” Gene Allen (Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada)
- “Colonization through Broadcasting: Rádio Clube de Moçambique and the Promotion of Portuguese Colonial Policy,” Nelson Ribeiro (Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal)
- “A House Divided: The SABC during World War Two,” Ruth Teer-Tomaselli (University KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
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“Subsidizing Content and Conduit: Global Wireless Communications and the State,” Heidi Tworek (Harvard University, United States)
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Moderator: Dominique Trudel (New York University, United States)
Communications and the State: The Case of Germany
- “A Story of Transition and Failure? The State and the East German Media Reform 1989-1991,” Mandy Tröger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
- “Presence and Absence: The Berlin Wall as a Strategic Platform,” Samantha Oliver (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
- “Heads of State as Communicators: A Comparative Analysis of State of the Union Addresses of American Presidents and Regierungserklärungen of German Chancellors since 1945/49,” Thomas Birkner (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany)
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“The Necessary Restraints of National Security: Cold War U.S. Government-Journalism Negotiations and the Communist Reaction,” Mike Conway (Indiana University, United States) and Kevin Grieves (Ohio University, United States)
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Moderator: Dave Park (Lake Forest College, United States)
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Coffee
2:15 PM – 3:35 PM
The State and Infrastructure
- “How the French State did not Construct Nicholas Schöffer’s Tour Lumière Cybernétique?,” Dominique Trudel (New York University, United States)
- “Minitel and the State,” Julien Mailland (Indiana University, United States) and Kevin Driscoll (Microsoft Research, United States)
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“Connected and Divided: Satellite Networks as Infrastructures of Live Television,” Christine Evans (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States) and Lars Lundgren (Södertörn University, Sweden)
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Moderator: Mike Conway (Indiana University, United States)
The State and Communication Across Borders
- “Media, Communications and the State in the Nordic Region: The History of the Media Welfare State,” Trine Syvertsen and Gunn Enli (University of Oslo, Norway), Ole J. Mjøs and Hallvard Moe (University of Bergen, Norway)
- “‘Home Is Where Your Heart Is’: Mediated Longing for the State,” Ekaterina Kalinina (Södertörn University, Sweden) and Manuel Menke (Augsburg University, Germany)
- “Theorizing Political Communication Policies,” Tim Vos (University of Missouri, United States)
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“Commercial cross-border radio: Popular culture, advertising, and the erosion of state communication power in comparative perspective: Britain, India and America,” John Jenks (Dominican University, United States)
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Moderator: Heidi Tworek (Harvard University, United States)
3:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Closing Plenary: The State of the Field
- Daniel Hallin (University of California, San Diego, United States)
- Richard John (Columbia University, United States)
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Adrian Johns (University of Chicago, United States)
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Moderator: Michael Stamm (Michigan State University, United States)
Preconference Organizers: Gene Allen, Ryerson University and Michael Stamm, Michigan State University.
Contact: Gene Allen, gene.allen@ryerson.ca
The Communication History Division of ICA had a highly successful sponsored preconference, “Making Sense of Memory & History,” May 22, 2014 at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI). An impressive day of panels and roundtables were scheduled, and the conference was attended by a cross-field, cross-disciplinary program featuring scholars within communication studies, rhetoric, public history, and the digital humanities more broadly.
Featured panelists include:
- Dr. S. Elizabeth Bird, University of South Florida
- Dr. Carolyn Kitch, Temple University
- Dr. Carolyn Marvin, University of Pennsylvania
- Dr. Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania
Preconference Outline
History and memory—two modes of thinking about the past that often appear at odds—have an intimate, albeit at times strained, intellectual relationship. Despite the argued antagonism between history and memory studies, historians
Preconference Organizers: Nicole Maurantonio, University of Richmond and David W. Park, Lake Forest College.
Contact: Nicole Maurantonio, nmaurant@richmond.edu
This preconference seeks to broaden, internationalize, and advance the history of communication study as a family of overlapping configurations and practices. It aims to bring together scholars from ICA, ECREA, IAMCR, NCA, and select rhetoric societies in an effort to stoke new, cross-national and cross-field conversations about the study of communication in long and broad historical perspective. It aspires to push the empirical and theoretical boundaries of histories and pre-histories of the field by attending to overlooked research areas, emerging conceptual orientations, and new axes of understanding and comparison among distinct traditions cutting across communication, media studies, cultural studies, journalism, and rhetoric, among other fields—and across institutional, intellectual, social, cultural, discursive, and material history. More specifically, it takes as its aims:
(1). To further internationalize the history of the fields and subfields of communication through papers that
- are centered on world regions or nations that have received relatively little historical attention to this point;
- are focused on the history of trans-national flows of influence, ideas, paradigms, texts, methods, research technologies, people, politics, power, other agentic forces contributing to the study of communication in the past; or
- take up comparative analysis across nations or regions.
(2). To deepen, enrich, and empirically fill out the history of communication study through papers that
- throw light on understudied dimensions of the academic study of communication as it developed over time;
- make use of archival materials, oral histories, or other primary sources that have not found their way into the published history of the field to date, or have been underused;
- advance a social history of the field that goes beyond ‘great men,’ landmark texts, and dominant forms of research—drawing attention, e.g., to patterns of labor, ordinary practitioners, pedagogical texts and practices, and points of articulation with everyday life and with publics beyond the academy;
- provide institutional histories of important departments, journals, and professional associations
- apply historical consideration to domains that have received less attention than some other subfields in the extant historiography of the field, including: internet studies, interpersonal communication research, forgotten avenues of communication research, marginal formations of all kinds, and more;
- bring newer or under-utilized theoretical paradigms and analytic frameworks to bear on the history of the field—e.g. new materialisms, archaeology, post-colonial and critical race theory, feminist theory, and queer theory; or
- critically engage existing histories and revise dominant understandings of individuals, institutions, ideas, schools, and practices.
(3). To broaden and cross-fertilize the history of communication study and related academic and non-academic fields through papers that
- consider commercial, governmental, philanthropic, religious, therapeutic, or other non-academic versions of the study of communication as a family of social practices; or
- draw out points of intellectual or socio-historical connection among communication-related fields whose histories and presents have often been kept separate of one another—e.g. rhetoric, hermeneutics, literary studies, journalism studies/Zeitungwissenschaft, information, media studies, cultural studies, and social scientific communication research.
Preconference Organizers: David W. Park, Lake Forest College, and Peter Simonson, University of Colorado.
Contact: David W. Park, park@lfc.edu
This ICA preconference brought together communication scholars pursuing historiographic work as well as various historians addressing areas of interest to communication scholars. The preconference succeeded in its goal to provoke intersections and encounters to set in motion potential interventions with urgent issues currently facing our discipline, schools, communities, and countries.
The day’s schedule remains online
- Keynote address by Anna Everett, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
- Invited scholar panel, “What Counts as Communication History?” featuring Norma Coates, Don Wright Faculty of Music and Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario; and Christian Schwarzenegger, Institute for Media and Educational Technology, Augsburg University.
- Interactive Korsakow System documentary by Mary Elizabeth Luka
- Paper presentations from South Africa, Israel, Mexico, Canada, and the United States on recovered histories, critical practice, policy engagements, and interdisciplinarity
Organized by Travers Scott and Devon Powers. Questions? Contact Travers Scott