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International Communication Association (ICA) 2020 PRECONFERENCE Conceptualizing a ‘Post-American’ Internet: Technology, Governance, and Geopolitics Date & Time: 9:00 am to 5.00 pm, May 21, 2020 Location: 2020 ICA conference venue, Gold Coast, Australia Organizers Yu Hong Zhejiang University, China hong1@zju.edu.cn Philipp Staab Humboldt University, Germany philipp.s.staab@hu-berlin.de Daya Thussu Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR dayathussu@hkbu.edu.hk Description and Objective The global internet is enteringa ‘post-American’ era in a dialectic sense. Dominant ideas, interests, andarrangements emanating from the US continue to matter. They mingle, align, anddelink with states, capitals, and social actors in various parts of the world. Ina largely asymmetric fashion, they are assembled into the global internet comprising supranational entities, corporate infrastructures, production chains, and networked publics. Nonetheless, global economic crises, and accompanying power shifts, have complicated the continuity and discontinuity of political economies, shaping and being shaped by the global internet. The rise of conservative nationalism and xenophobes in the Global North has also exposed the fragmented nature of the existing order and provoked counter proposals, alternative narratives, and new arrangements. Indeed, the topography of the global internet and its governing landscape look very different today. For example, under the pressure from China and the US, many European countries have made increased efforts to build national ICT infrastructures. Questions also arise regarding both technological dependence and initiatives of the global South during their integration into global trade and communication networks. The debates about data localization are increasingly taking a nationalist turn in India, home to the world’s second largest internet users after China. Digital transformation enabled by 5G networks drives another vector of change. New networked applications, such as the Internet of Things, smart city systems, and the Internet of Bodies, cross many boundaries, be they spatial, material, temporal, or social. They draw much innovative energy from non-Western socio-economic contexts and are likely to extend commodification and surveillance of body, land, labor, information, and communication. Again, this happens against a backdrop of heightened geopolitical struggle over technology and renewed debates over governance. In the ‘post-American’ era, internet technologies connect populations and things amidst unfixed values, contesting relations, and changing contexts. Thus, conceptualizing a ‘post-American’internet encourages scholars to delve into formative disagreement spaces, emergent geopolitical processes, and dynamic political-economic structures. This also draws attention to a range of actors, whose collaboration and contestationre-work, and sometimes transcend, conventional protocols, procedures, andtypologies, which include but are not limited to states and capitals, subnational and transnational regions, interstate relations and social formation, master narratives and social imaginations. This preconference is intended to encourage focused discussion of socio-technical transformations, geopolitical reconfigurations in the emerging context of adigital ‘Cold War’, and institutional reactions and normative debates surrounding ICT-related governance and development in a ‘post-American’ era. We welcome theoretical and empirical studies from multiple conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and scales of analysis. Keynote speakers (TBD) How to participate If you wish to present apaper at this event, please send an abstract of 300-400 words. This must be submitted to dyzxlxt@163.com by December 1, 2019. The organizers will consider these submissions and advise on acceptance by January 20, 2020. With financial support from the College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, registration fees will be waived for paper presenters (including two breaks and lunch). For other participants, $90 per person for ICA full members and $45 per person for students. Note: it is assumed that presenters will be available to attend the event for the full day. If you are coming from overseas, we recommend that you arrive on May 20, 2020, and make appropriate accommodation arrangements for that night. About Zhejiang University as the Co-host Zhejiang University was founded in 1897 and is one of the earliest modern academies of higher education in China. Its College of Media and International Culture was established in 2006, of which the Department of Journalism was set up in 1958 and is one of the oldest journalism schools in China. Currently, the College has four departments and several research institutes, covering a wide range of research programs in communication studies, journalism studies, new media and critical theory, and international culture. The College is also home for Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication Research Center, Zhejiang University. 联系与投稿信箱 editor@chinamediaresearch.cn |
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