ICA 2011 - ICA2011 Matters of Communication:Political, Cultural & Technological Challenges

Matters of Communication:Political, Cultural & Technological Challenges
Politics, culture, and technology are matters of communication. But if communication matters for all these questions, isn’t it, paradoxically, because it also doesn’t matter? Indeed, communication is, in many respects, im/material because it constitutes the very nexus where the material and immaterial dimensions of our world meet with each other. If we live in a world of artifacts, technologies, bodies, and sites, Matters of Communication: Political, Cultural & Technological Challenges The Conference Theme for ICA 2011 in Singapore we also live in a world of principles, passions, ideas, meanings, and values. Although both material and immaterial aspects of this world intertwine with each other, it seems crucial not to reduce one to the other, making the study of communication essential to understanding what could be called the spectral or even ghostal nature of our experiences and exchanges.