National Communication Association conference

November 16–19, 2023 | National Harbor, MD

Welcome to our conference hub for the 2023 National Communication Association conference! We are excited to be celebrating with you all virtually this year.

Got an interdisciplinary book you want some editing or indexing help with? You can schedule a free Zoom consultation with IoF founder Cathy Hannabach to learn how our team of editors, indexers, researchers, and publishing consultants can help get your book out into the world.

Below, you can check out our #NCA2023 Imagine Otherwise podcast playlist as well as the latest communication studies and media studies books we have edited and/or indexed.

Even if you can’t attend in person, you can follow along with the conversations at the conference hashtag #NCA2023.

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    Podcast episodes

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    Christopher Ali wearing a purple blazer, text reads Christopher Ali on rural broadband access
    Aymar Jean Christian with chin on hand, text reads Aymar Jean Christian on creating Open TV, with the Ideas on Fire logo
    Catherine Knight Steele wearing a black shirt, text reads Catherine Knight Steele on Digital Black Feminism
    Kristie Soares wearing a denim shirt in front of trees. Text reads: Kristie Soares on joy in Latinx media, episode 154 of Imagine Otherwise
    Hunter Vaughan in front of a flowering shrub, text reads: Hunter Vaughan on the ecological impact of media technologies
    Josef Nguyen wearing a pink shirt, text reads: Josef Nguyen on digital creative labor
    Adrienne Shaw wearing a black shirt and glasses, text reads Adrienne Shaw on accessible teaching by design
    Jasmine Nichole Cobb wearing a black shirt, text reads Jasmine Nichole Cobb on Haptic Blackness
    Meryl Alper wearing a black shirt and glasses. Text reads: Meryl Alper on autistic kids’ digital media, episode 155, with the Imagine Otherwise logo.
    Meghnaa Tallapragada on a balcony, wearing a black sweater and red and purple scarf

    Books

    View our full #NCA2023 book list →

    Cover of In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Media Crisis and Normalize Inequality, with bullhorn emergency alarm system on bright yellow background
    Cover of Nonhuman Witnessing, with dozens of glass ornaments hanging by thin threads
    Cover of Subjunctive Aesthetics, with group of hammerhead sharks swimming
    Cover of Black Networked Resistance, with a person in a colorful crop top and pants sitting on a telephone wire layered over a city street
    Cover of Code Work, with a figure knitting next to a computer console covered in knitted fabrics
    Cover of Border tunnels with title arranged in a diagonal mimicking a tunnel on a blue and orange background
    Cover of Playful protest with a Latinx woman singing joyfully and boldly
    Cover of Real Life in Real Time, with pixelated video game image
    Cover of Death Glitch, with multicolored pixelated glitch image
    Cover of Kids Across the Spectrums, with multicolored outlines of children raising their arms above their heads
    Cover of Picture Research, with a lens and film strip
    Cover of Doing Black Digital Humanities with Radical Intentionality, with multicolored painting of a femme person's face tipped back
    Cover of Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex, with Vanessa del Río in a fringe-lined costume
    Cover of A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes, with title in dramatic oversized font jumbled together
    Cover of Anthroposcreens with a closeup on ice
    Cover of Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh, with abstract wave made up of dots on a dark background
    Cover of Networked Feminism: How Digital Media Makers Transformed Gender Justice Movements, with a phone screen overlaid on a protest crowd
    Cover of The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media, with text in pixelated font and video game icons
    Cover of A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago, with Chicago buildings on city street
    Cover of Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age, with silhouettes of two people on their phones shaking hands
    Cover of Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet, with black and red text on parchment paper with fold creases
    Cover of Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media, with a group performance overlaid with symbols
    Cover of The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930, with numbers written on graph paper
    Cover of The Stuff of Spectatorship, with popcorn, cloth, molded plastic, and microscopic dust
    Cover of Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media, with medieval images of people dancing with skeletons
    Cover of Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet , one person whispers into another's ear and both have newsprint overlaid on their faces
    Cover of Digital Black Feminism, with collage artwork showing Black feminine-presenting people and faces, lush textures, and bright colors
    Cover of We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves, with a person's face and torse made up of documents and files
    Cover of The Digital Is Kid Stuff: Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy, with a pixelated car driving out of a tablet screen
    Cover of Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity, with a broadband tower in the middle of a corn field stretching to the sky

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