Episode 6: Deen Freelon – One Network, Many Neighborhoods‽

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 the 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.

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Episode 5: Ingrid Bachmann – Decentralizing Western Research from Being “A Universalizing Norm‽”

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.

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Episode 4: Brooke Foucault Welles – “Oneness” in Networks of Children and Families‽

This episode features Brooke Foucault Welles – one of the Conference Theme Co-Chairs of the 2022 ICA Conference. With a panel of guest speakers, Brooke critically explores the implications of the One World One Network‽ This episode’s guests discuss the challenges the pandemic has placed on children and family networks and how we can overcome them. They also discuss the growing use divide the pandemic has brought to the forefront of children and families lives. 

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Episode 3: Jack Qiu – Networks Beyond The Future‽

This episode features Jack Qiu – one of the Conference Theme Co-Chairs of the 2022 ICA Conference. He and a panel of guest speakers discuss the future of networks through their experiences as scholars and educators in the communications field. They explore the understanding of issues related to sustainability and justice through their own research and pedagogy.

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Episode 2: Herman Wasserman – Dewesternization Leads to Decolonization‽

This episode features Herman Wasserman – one of the Conference Theme Co-Chairs of the 2022 ICA Conference. With a panel of guest speakers, Herman critically explores the implications of One World One Network‽ This episode’s guests discuss the world’s frequent overemphasis of the West and how we can shift our focus to other narratives. They touch on the potential of media, from Netflix to digital campaigns to facilitate contra-flows that run counter to the dominant flow from “West to Rest,”  while acknowledging that global access to these technologies remains a challenge. They discuss how people are using technology in creative ways that don’t always surface in the dominant media.

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Episode 1: Shakuntala Banaji – One Network for Whom‽

This episode features Shakuntala Banaji – one of the Conference Theme Co-Chairs of the 2022 ICA Conference. She along with a panel of guest speakers critically explore the implications of One World One Network‽ and the challenges of the globalized world. The group explores whether Marshall McLuhan’s concept of a “global village” is a reality or a failed aspirational goal, and asks who then is being left behind.

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