Skip navigation.

Logo: International Communicology Institute  International Communicology Institute

⌘ INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICOLOGY INSTITUTE ⌘ EXECUTIVE OFFICE, WASHINGTON, DC, USA ⌘

► FREQUENT USERS ► Please reboot each Page as the site is updated DAILY.

 

ICI Logo The Discipline of Communicology


 

Communicology is the science of human communication.  One of the Human Science disciplines, it uses the research methods of semiotics and phenomenology to explicate human consciousness and behavioral embodiment as discourse within global culture. Cognate subdiscipline applications include: (1) Art Communicology, (2) Clinical Communicology, (3) Media Communicology, and (4) Philosophy of Communicology.

(Continued in Definition: Communicology

 

Communicology is the study of human discourse in all of its semiotic and phenomenological manifestations of embodied consciousness and practice in the world of other people and their environment. As a young discipline in Human Science research, Communicology is the critical study of discourse and practice, especially the expressive body as mediated by the perception of cultural signs and codes. Communicology uses the methodology of semiotic phenomenology in which the expressive body discloses cultural codes, and cultural codes shape the perceptive body—an ongoing, dialectical, complex helix of twists and turns constituting the reflectivity, reversibility, and reflexivity of consciousness and experience. 

(Continued in Précis: Communicology)
 
 

ICI logo Featured International Research Conferences   


 Details at:  ANNOUNCEMENTS, Conferences Calls, Calls for Papers

 Just Concluded: "Identity, Civilization, and Consciousness"

A Conference on the Theoretical Intersections of Jean Gebser's Theories and Identity, Civilization, and Consciousness
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 15, 16, 17 October 2009
Hofstra University   Hempstead, New York, USA
 Assisting Organizer: Eric M. Kramer, Fellow of I. C. I.

 

 Just Concluded: Landmarks 2: "Communication and Memory"

A Conference of the Philosophy of Communication Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association
Wednesday - Friday, 9 - 11 December 2009
University of London's School of Advanced Study, London, United Kingdom
Principal Organizer: Johan Isaac Siebers, Fellow of I.C.I.

 

 Upcoming: ICNAP  II                   

      
Second Annual Conference — Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP)
Thursday - Saturday, 27 - 29 May 2010
Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada                                                                                                       
Abstracts are DUE 1 April 2010
Assisting Organizer: Maureen Connolly, Fellow of I.C.I.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  Amedeo Giorgi, Fellow of I.C.I.
Call for Papers and Venue Information: www.icnap.org/index.htm 

 

 Upcoming: International Human Science Research Conference

Wednesday - Sunday, 4 - 8 August 2010
University of Seattle, Seattle, Washington [state], USA
Assisting Organizer: Amedeo Giorgi, Fellow of I.C.I.

 

 In Development: "Communicology and Cognitive Science in East-West Cultures"

A Biennial Summer Symposium and Professional Development Seminar 
Beijing, People's Republic of China                                                                             
 

 

 ICI Administration


 

ICI Logo Institute Director  

Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology (Emeritus)
Southern Illinois University, USA
I.C.I. Executive Office, Washington, DC
8117 Glenhurst Drive, Suite One
Fairfax Station, VA 22039-3145
USA
Voice and Fax: +1 (703) 495-9792

 

  rlanigan@mac.com

 

ICI Logo Director of Integrated Media

Thomas D. Craig, D.Phil., Ph.D.
Occasional Instructor
Centre for Applied Disability Studies 
Brock University
St. Catharines, ON  L2S 3A1
CANADA

  aporia@gmail.com

 

ICI Logo ICI Bureau of Regional — Continental Coordinators

 

AFRICA                                                       ♦ 

• Jean-Claude Mbarga (Cameroon)
• Keyan Tomaselli (South Africa)

 

AMERICA (NORTH)                                       ♦

• Paul Bouissac (Canada)
• Maureen Connolly (Canada)
• Thomas D. Craig (Canada)

 

AMERICA (SOUTH)                                       ♦ 

• Fernando Andacht (Uruguay)
• José Enrique Finol (Venezuela)
• William B. Gomes (Brazil)
• Lucia Santaella (Brazil)

 

ASIA                                                           ♦

• Shushan Cai (P.R. China)
• Ersu Ding (P.R. China)
• Han-liang Chang (Taiwan)
• Du-Won Lee (South Korea)

 

AUSTRALIA                                                  ♦ 

• Horst Ruthrof (Australia)

 

EUROPE                                                      ♦

• Jeff Bernard (Austria)
• Gloria Withalm (Austria)
• Lennart Nørreklit (Denmark)
• Winfried Nöth (Germany)
• Roland Posner (Germany)

• Zdzisław Wąsik (Poland)

• Traian D. Stanciulescu (Romania)

 

MIDDLE EAST                                               ♦

• Mehdi Mohsenian-Rad (Iran)

 

  I C I  ACCREDITATIONS and AFFILIATIONS


 

  

 

MEMBER, Union of International Associations

http://www.uia.be

ICI Logo Representative:  

Richard L. Lanigan 


 IASS logo

 

                       

 
 
 
 

MEMBER, International Association for Semiotic Studies

http://www.iass-ais.org

ICI Logo Representatives:    

Richard L. Lanigan, Executive Committee, USA Representative; Past Vice President

Maureen Connolly, Executive Committee, ICI Representative

Note: Many other ICI Fellows sit on the IASS Executive Committee as representatives of their own country.


 

   

 

MEMBER, Organization of Phenomenological Organizations

http://www.o-p-o.net

ICI Logo Representatives:

Thomas D. Craig 

Mauren Connolly

Note: Many other ICI Fellows from disciplinary research associations and societies are OPO Representatives.