The Philosophy Theory & Critique Division of ICA

Co-Winner! Includes the cover of Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood by Lilie Chouliaraki. 2025 Best Book Award, Philosophy, Theory, and Critique Division of the International Communication Association. Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu

We are pleased to announce that Lilie Chouliaraki's WRONGED is the Co-Winner of the 2025 Best Book Award from the Philosophy, Theory, and Critique Division of the International Communication Association. buff.ly/KkDTP85 @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social @icaptc.bsky.social

10.07.2025 15:32 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

#ICA25 Award Season updates continue: Congratulations to Hafsa Maqsood from the University of Calgary for winning the 2025 Decolonial Scholarship Award for the paper "Gendered Orientalism and Israeli Media" 👏👏

10.06.2025 22:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pin the #ica25 feed to keep up on conference posts this week!

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10.06.2025 14:58 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The #ICA25 conference is also award season and PTC is happy to announce the joint winners of the C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy: Victor Pickard from the Annenberg School for Communication at U Penn and Pablo Boczkowski from Northwestern U 👏👏

09.06.2025 13:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📱 The #ICA25 mobile app is here! Plan your schedule, explore sessions, connect with fellow attendees, and stay updated — all from your phone. Download now and get conference-ready! Check your inboxes for the email invitation.

05.06.2025 18:03 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2

Headed out to #ICA25 next week! I’ll mostly be there for our incredible CCSN precon, but will make a brief appearance at the main con too.

Can’t wait to see y’all there! And, as always, happy to chat w other folks studying creators/feminist media/disability/digital labor. ✨💕

06.06.2025 14:29 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Join us next week at #ICA25 for our preconference, Echoes and Overlaps in Arab and African Thought on Media and Culture.

🗓 Wednesday, June 11
🕘 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
📍CASE E390, @cuboulder.info

View the full program and register here: bit.ly/3SwP3GY

07.06.2025 13:02 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

We have preconference hashtags! If you’re attending our “Debating Creator Culture” ICA-precon, you can (1) Tag us! and/or (2) HASHtag us at:

#DebatingCreatorCulture #ICA25

Let’s see the selfies, snapshots and live threads this Wednesday June 11th! 🎉

08.06.2025 15:30 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

Title slide for "parasocial media: the mass production of intimacy on a chinese pop idol mobile application"

I'll present parasocial media, co-authored with @landrous.bsky.social, and talk about the "idols you can meet" media format and the infrastructuring of intimate yet asymmetrical relationships for a @icaptc.bsky.social panel (full paper: doi.org/10.1177/2976... out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social)

09.06.2025 04:52 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

It's officially out now already! Edited by Linda Steiner and yours truly. We are so happy to share the news. Check it out: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/we-can-do-be... @icahdq.bsky.social @icaptc.bsky.social @aejmc-csw.bsky.social @aejmc.bsky.social @aejmcresearch.bsky.social @iamcr.org #comsky

25.02.2025 19:23 — 👍 19    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

ICA Game Studies 2025 Preconference: Draining the Swamp: Toxic Masculinity as A Threat to The Media Industries and Beyond – ICA Game Studies

5 more days to submit to the @icagames.bsky.social precon on toxic masculinity! All disciplines are welcome because this is a problem that affects all of us, not just the games industry. Join us :) icagames.org/2025preconfe...

23.02.2025 16:40 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

🚀 We’re here! Welcome to the official Bluesky account for 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 —where science meets cutting-edge journalism. Stay tuned for updates on groundbreaking research, insightful interviews, and calls for papers. Follow us for the latest discoveries and their impact on the digital media world!

06.02.2025 08:35 — 👍 25    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 2

This graphic primarily features text. The first text reads, “New Article • Current Issue,” and then it shares the title of the article: “Seven Theses About the So-Called Culture War(s) (Or Some Fragmentary Notes on ‘Cancel Culture’).” The bottom of the graphic then specifies the author and issue information: “Sean Phelan • Volume 39, Issue 1 (2025)” and “Open Access Article.”

The second image is titled “Abstract,” and it features the first part of the abstract for the article: “How might we understand the forms of mediatized politics that are signified under the dreary heading of the ‘culture war(s)’? This article addresses this question in the form of seven theses. Informed by a distinct theoretical reading of Laclau and Mouffe’s concept of antagonism, I highlight the anti-political character of culture war discourses, particularly as amplified in a public culture dominated by the social media industry. The seven theses are prefaced by an overview of the category of ‘cancel culture’, in light of its recent prominence as an object of culture war discourse.” The abstract is continued on the next image.

The third and final image is titled “Abstract (Continued),” and it includes the rest of the abstract: “The theses stress the repressive effects of culture war discourses on our collective political imagination. They redescribe some of the fault lines of a familiar terrain by thematizing the differences between a moralized and radical democratic understanding of political antagonism. I highlight the primary role of far-right actors in the normalization of culture-war conflicts that persecute different identities, but also critique the online left’s entanglement in sedimented antagonisms that primarily benefit reactionary actors.” At the bottom of the graphic, it reads: “Continue Reading at the Link in Our Description.”

The next article from Volume 39, Issue 1 is titled "Seven Theses About the So-Called Culture War(s) (Or Some Fragmentary Notes on ‘Cancel Culture’)," written by Sean Phelan. It is an open access article, and we invite you to read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

24.02.2025 18:49 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

PTC Best Book Award Call for Nominations - International Communication Association

PTC's Best Book Award is open for nominations until March 15th. The award recognizes the outstanding work of scholars in the field, with a publication date between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2024. See here for more info: www.icahdq.org/blogpost/151...

25.02.2025 13:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

PTC Best Dissertation Award Call for Nominations - International Communication Association

PTC's Best Dissertation Award is open for nominations until March 15th. The award is given to an outstanding PhD dissertation completed between January 2023 and December 2024 on themes central to the mission of PTC. Find more info here: www.icahdq.org/blogpost/151...

25.02.2025 13:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy* Call for nominations (closes February 28, 2025) | Public Channel Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy*Call for nominations (closes February 28, 2025)The Edwin Baker Award recogn

Just a few days left to submit nominations for the Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy (closes 28 February). Find more information here: link.icahdq.org/discussion/e...

25.02.2025 13:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Register for the session you want here: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

20.09.2024 06:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Image announcing two info sessions for submitting to the international communication association conference in the division of philosophy theory & critique. The dates are 27 September 1600 UTC and 1 October 800 UTC.

The deadline for submitting to #ICA25 is the 1st of November. If you're thinking about Philosophy, Theory & Critique as a home for your research, consider joining one of our info sessions to learn more. Link to register in the comments.

20.09.2024 06:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0