The International Communication Association presents the ICA Podcast Network, where we’re grappling with questions about how to navigate, transform, and make sense of a changing world. Our podcasts will bring together scholars and practitioners from around the world to showcase the most exciting and important work in our field and amplify researchers, educators, and advocates who are underrepresented in our field.

We're so excited to introduce One World, One Network‽, Interventions from the Global South, Architects of Communication Scholarship, Digital Alchemy, Feminist Networks and the Conjuncture, Ask Us Anything, Growing Up Comm, JCMC: The Discussion Section, and Communicating for Impact.

Visit our website to learn more and listen to each podcast.

This episode features Deen Freelon – one of the Conference Theme Co-Chairs of the 2022 ICA Conference. With a panel of guest speakers, Deen critically explores the implications of One World One Network‽ This episode’s guests also discuss their personal experiences as Black grad students and scholars in the field of communication. They touch on challenges they face, like white researchers not taking their work seriously, and their hopes for the field’s future.

Click here for the episode transcript on our webpage.

Featuring

Deen Freelon

Charlton McIlwain

Meredith Clark

Sponsors

Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication

If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, here are some materials to check out:

Read more on the history of the interrobang.

Hear more about the history of the interrobang.

More from the host & speakers:

Deen Freelon

Associate Professor | Hussman School of Journalism and Media
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Personal website

Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life

Twitter: @dfreelon

Github

Charlton McIlwain

Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development | Center for Faculty Advancement
New York University

Personal website

Articles:

Science Friday article

Guardian article

Microsoft article

Books:

Black Software book

Race Appeal book

Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies book

Twitter: @cmcilwain @centerforcrds

Meredith Clark
Associate Professor and Founding Director | Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change

Northeastern University

Personal website

Articles:

Clark M. DRAG THEM: A brief etymology of so-called “cancel culture.” Communication and the Public. 2020;5(3-4):88-92. doi:10.1177/2057047320961562

Meredith D Clark, Remaking the #Syllabus: Crowdsourcing Resistance Praxis as Critical Public Pedagogy, Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2020, Pages 222–241, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcaa017

Twitter: @MeredithDClark @NU_CAMD @mediastudies

This episode features Ingrid Bachmann, one of the Conference Theme Co-Chairs of the 2022 ICA Conference. Alongside a panel of other scholars, Ingrid explores the current influence of Western research in the field of feminist media studies — and how they as scholars can decentralize Western work. They consider how they can ensure their work, particularly as teachers and mentors of future scholars, has a positive social impact. They finish with a discussion of what it means to be an activist in the current digital age and how this definition intersects with their own work.

Click here for the episode transcript on our website.

Featuring:

Ingrid Bachmann

Akane Kanai

Radhika Parameswaran

Sponsors:

Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication

If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, here are some materials to check out:

Read more on the history of the interrobang.

Hear more about the history of the interrobang.

More from the host & guests:

Ingrid Bachmann
Associate Professor | School of Communication

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

@fcomuc

Akane Kanai
Faculty Member | School of Media, Film and Journalism

Monash University

@Akane_Kanai
@gendermedialab, @mfjmonash

Radhika Parameswaran

Associate Dean and Herman B Wells Endowed Professor | The Media School
Indiana University, Bloomington