The 12th International Conference on Intercultural Communication

On behalf of the Center for Studies of Media Development (CSMD), we invite you to attend the 12th International Conference on Intercultural Communication (ICIC 2023).

The theme for this year is :

Emotional Communities in Intercultural Communication in the Age of Digital Communication.

The conference will be held over two days, from December 8th to December 11th.

Emotions and affects are complex experiences shared by people. The question of what these experiences are is forever intertwined with human civilization and its development. Since the 20th century, an “affective turn” has taken place in fields such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary anthropology, and other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In the age of digital communication, "emotional flow" is accelerating too.

In the field of intercultural communication, emotions and affects also play an essential role. When the local audiences seek to understand “others”, they will often take a "cognitive shortcut" via an "emotion first" heuristic. When people engage with digital media, they are more willing to trust information and opinion that is consistent with their affective cognition. When judging what is true and what is false, their deliberations are informed by emotional affect. Indeed, human emotions profoundly affect people's selective contact, understanding, and collective memory in the process of intercultural communication.

During the 12th International Conference on Intercultural Communication, we will explore the theoretical and practical research on emotions and affects in the field of intercultural communication. In doing so, we hope to go beyond previous attempts to ontologically determine emotion and affect. Instead, we aim to prioritize their complex social mechanisms in intercultural contexts. We do this with a view to better understand the role that emotion and affect research can play in developing theories of intercultural communication in the digital communications age. 

Forum Theme 1: 

Intercultural Communication in Emotional Communities in the Digital Comunication Ara

Forum Theme 2: 

Intercultural Communication of Nationality Consciousness in the Era of Digital Communication

Forum Theme 3: 

Collective Memory and Intercultural Communication in the Era of Digital Communication

Forum Theme 4: 

Intercultural Communication Capability Building

Forum Theme 5:

 Community Awareness and Intercultural Communication in Marketing

Forum Theme 6: 

Emotional Flow and Cultural Adaptation in the Age of Social Media 

Forum Theme 7: 

Cultural Identity and Public Relations with Affection Research on Intercultural Communication

Forum Theme 8: 

Emotional Connections in Human-Computer Dialogue

Forum Theme 9: 

Other Related Research Topics

1. Papers submitted are expected NOT to have been presented at other academic conferences or published in other collections or journals.

2. The official languages of the conference will be Chinese and English. Papers submitted for the conference can be written with either one of the official languages.

3. Abstracts must be submitted before 20th, July,2023.

4. The list of accepted papers will be announced on 10th,August,2023. And an official invitation letter will be sent to the selected scholars.

5. Final papers should be submitted before 1st October,2023.

Email: iccchina2020@163.com

Phone: +86 27-68754239

Meeting Contacts: Prof.Dr. Li Ji, Dr. Jincao Xiao

Convener: Prof.Dr. Bo Shan (Wuhan University, China)

Address: Centre for Studies of Media Development, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, P. R. China. 430072

 Center for Studies of Media Development (CSMD), Wuhan University

School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University

March 5th, 2023