ICAfrica-Ghana 2018
International Communication Association (ICA) BIENNIAL Africa Regional Conference
ICAfrica-Ghana
Theme: African Digital Cultures: Emerging Research, Practices and Innovations
Date: 7-9 November, 2018
The School of Information and Communication Studies (SICS) of the University of Ghana, in collaboration with the International Communication Association (ICA) is hosting the 2018 Regional ICA conference on the theme African Digital Cultures: Emerging research, practices and innovations. The conference seeks to bring together scholars from within and outside the continent to share their research and perspectives on the cultures forming around conceptualizations, production and consumption of the digital space in Africa. We invite abstracts of empirical and conceptual papers that address the following and other relevant themes for presentation at the conference:
- Transformation of knowledge in a digital era
- Epistemologies, disciplinary developments and pedagogies in digital communication
- Theorizations of the digital
- Gendered cultures and digitization
- Youth cultures and digitization
- Rural digital cultures
- Digitization and marginalization
- Digitization, regulation and governance
- Digital colonization
- Ethical concerns related to digitization
- Newsroom norms and practices in a digital era
- Corporate communications and digitization
- Communication, entrepreneurship and digitization
- Digitization and interpersonal communication
- Audiences and digital culture
- Privacy, publicity, surveillance
- News and disinformation
- New mediation practices in a digital era
- Digitalization and visualization