• Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2022 • A Decade of Futures (of Communication)

    Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2022 • A Decade of Futures (of Communication)


Edited by Zachary J. McDowell and Peter Royal

Issue 1 of 2

What we proposed for this collection was to return again to explore the boundaries and the future of communication as an area of study and as an interdisciplinary and intersectional space of inquiry. communication +1's first issue, Futures of Communication (2012) did just that by addressing a wide variety of topics. The objective of addressing the "futures" of communication as a field of inquiry was and is not to identify research topics that may be popular or fashionable; rather, it is in the (re)establishment of "communication" as an enduring theoretical concept that cuts across the humanities and social sciences. The future of "communication" therefore designates its significance guaranteed by its interdisciplinary promise (but also arrives with its own concerns). What we offer here is a continuation of the belief that the question of “futures” is not a one-time endeavor, but instead a question that needs to be returned to time and time again, particularly in this age of changing media landscapes and new interdisciplinary discourse.

So, we return again to the question of (a decade of) "futures."

Articles


Introduction: Futures

Zachary McDowell and Peter Royal

2022-10-31 Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2022 • A Decade of Futures (of Communication)

Secret Communications

Peter Krapp

2022-10-31 Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2022 • A Decade of Futures (of Communication)

In the Face of the Robot

David J. Gunkel

2022-10-31 Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2022 • A Decade of Futures (of Communication)

Communication and one

Florian Sprenger

2022-10-31 Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2022 • A Decade of Futures (of Communication)

Moving Human-Machine Communication Forward Through the Study of Non-Use and Failure

Andrea L Guzman

2022-10-31 Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2022 • A Decade of Futures (of Communication)

Soft Disciplines

Zizi Papacharissi

2022-10-31 Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2022 • A Decade of Futures (of Communication)

Impossible Possible Machines

Christina Vagt

2022-10-31 Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2022 • A Decade of Futures (of Communication)

Combustive Knowledge: Fire as Medium and Interface

Patricia Pisters

2022-10-31 Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2022 • A Decade of Futures (of Communication)

What is not a medium?

John Durham Peters

2022-10-31 Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2022 • A Decade of Futures (of Communication)

Is Machine Listening Listening?

Jonathan Sterne

2022-10-31 Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2022 • A Decade of Futures (of Communication)

Media, Mediation, Mediality

Johannes Bennke and Amit Pinchevski

2022-11-01 Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2022 • A Decade of Futures (of Communication)