[Air-L] Call for Panelists NCA2024: New Media and Digital Technologies for Social Change and Community Engagement

[song shi]

Song Shi, sos59 at pit.edu

We are looking for 2 more panelists and one person to serve as chair of
this panel at the NCA (National Communication Association) 2024 convention
 (Nov. 21-24, New Orleans).

The aim of this panel is to shed new light on a theoretically and
practically significant issue in communication studies: using new media and
digital technologies to promote social change and community engagement, an
issue that has a perfect fit with the  “Communication for Greater Regard”
theme of NCA2024. The discussion panel will provide new insight, share new
ideas, and pursue new lines of inquiry into the role of technology and new
media in fostering social change, community engagement, social activism,
civic engagement, and effective crisis response.  We bring together recent
scholarship and practice on this issue in international and intercultural
communication. The theme of the panel may be refined for the research
interests of panel participants.



Tentative title - New Media and Digital Technologies for Social Change and
Community Engagement

This discussion panel proposal will be submitted to the International and
Intercultural Communication Division, NCA 2024

If you are interested in participating, please send a 100-200 word abstract
and the title of your research/discussion topic to Song Shi at sos59 at pit.edu
and CC Tim Huang, TIMHUANG at pitt.edu  *by March 27th*. Please also include your
name, academic affiliation, your title at your institution, and email
address



Current Members’ Topic:

Song Shi, sos59 at pit.edu , Teaching Assistant Professor, University of
Pittsburgh

Tim Huang, TIMHUANG at pitt.edu , Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Song: The use of ICT in COVID response in China (a chapter from Song’s new
book, *China and the Internet: Using New Media for Development and Social
Change*)

Tim: “The Time-Traveling Project”: the use of VR/AR for community
engagement in the Hill District community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania



Sincerely,

Song Shi