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The International Communication Association (ICA) is a leading global network of communication scholars, practitioners, and students. Each year, ICA's Annual Conference convenes thousands of participants from around the world to exchange research findings, explore emerging trends, and foster collaboration in the field of communication.
Preconference: Echoes and Overlaps in Arab and African Thought on Media and Culture
Organizers: Clovis Bergère, Marwan Kraidy, and Nabil Echchaibi
From Point Zero: Alienation and the Epistemology of Political Confrontation
Chafic Tony Najem
Mapping Excess: The Arab-African Nexus
Marwan M. Kraidy
Williams Sassine and the Theorization of Youth as a Concept for Media Research
Clovis Bergère
The Tijaniyyah as a Transregional Intellectual Network: Disrupting Colonial SilosBetween Africa and the Arab World
Safae Daoudi
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: CASE E390
Decolonizing Theory and Critique
Rethinking Generation in Global Media Studies
Clovis Bergère
Time: 12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Location: Mineral D (Regency 3)
InterAsian Digitalities: Disrupting Geopolitical Frames in Our Work and the World
Chair: Marwan Kraidy
Organizer: Clovis Bergère
The 3M Framework and Region as Disruption
Heather Jaber
The Transnationality of Identification Systems: Mobilities, Mediations, Methods
Harsha Man Maharjan
Time: 12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Location: Mineral D (Regency 3)
Media, War, and Conflict
Digital Pyropoesis and Rogue Affects
Marwan M. Kraidy
Time: 1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Location: Mineral A (Regency 3)
Media Temporality
Time as Violence: Smuggled Technologies, Mundane Images, and Temporal Suffering in Lebanon’s Prisons
Chafic Tony Najem
Time: 9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Location: Capitol 3 (Regency 4)
KOT-alyzing Connections: Digital Identity, Disaster Tech, and AI Geopolitics
An InterAsian Digitalities Framework: A Proposal for Digital Identification Systems Studies
Harsha Man Maharjan
Time: 9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Location: Mt. Oxford (Grand 3)
HIGH-DENSITY: Feminist Activism, Hashtags and Social Media
#guineennedu21esiecle and the Radical Potential of Feminist Activism in Contemporary Guinea
Clovis Bergère
Time: 10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Location: Centennial A (Regency 3)
Between Public and Private
Digital ID Dependency in the Global South: The Political Economy of the National Identification System in Nepal
Harsha Man Maharjan
Time: 10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Location: Mt. Columbia (Grand 3)
HIGH-DENSITY: Opportunities and Challenges of Mobile Media for Specific Subpopulations
Digital Carceral Mobilities: Mobility and Smuggled Mobile Technologies in Prisons
Chafic Tony Najem
Time: 12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Location: Centennial H (Regency 3)