Culture Communication and Cognition. Explaining Cognitive-Cultural Components of Media and Communication

Culture, Communication and Cognition Explaining Cognitive-Cultural Components of Media and Communication

International Conference Poland Lublin 7 – 9 May 2012

DAVID R. OLSON Keynote Speaker

Conference Aims and Topics

The conference is to provide a platform for an interdisciplinary discussion of the interrelations between culture, cognition and communication, with special attention to the cultural and cognitive roles of the media. Anthropologists, communication studies researchers, sociologists, psychologists, philosophers and cognitive scientists are encouraged to challenge ideas concerning the cognitive and cultural functions of communication, language and media – thereby building upon the work of such scholars as Innis, McLuhan, Goody, Havelock, Ong and Olson. Of particular interest are submissions that explore the interrelations between cognitive science and theories of media and communications, which might be pursued from any of a number of theoretical positions, including: media ecology, medium theory and literacy-orality theory, speech-act theory, critical discourse analysis, semiotics of culture, theory of communicative action and communicology.

Topics on which we would like to focus during conference include:

• Conceptual, methodological and theoretical problems faced by theories of media and communication – technological determinism, cognitive relativism, ethnocentrism, etc.
• Media versus cultural practices
• Semiotic analyses of language, speech, discourse, metaphor, etc.
• The cognitive perspective on communication phenomena
• Thinking through language, tools, instruments, information technologies and media
• Media and extended mind  (situated cognition)
• Human-computer communication
• Modes and models of rationality in media, communication undertakings and environments
• Cognitive Science in a historical perspective: logical empiricism and its contribution to understanding of language and communication
• Intercultural perspectives on communication – contrastive studies on media and discourse, global communication studies, intercultural clashes and misunderstandings

ORGANIZERS:

Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology

Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland

 and

Institute of Polish Culture

University of Warsaw, Poland

and

Polish Society for Cognitive Science