Conference Themes

The conference will explore a wide array of themes, ranging from art and culture, education, environment, health and the spiritual, media, information, and communication to social movements and activism, and sports. These themes are designed to encourage multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches and foster discussions on the intersections of media and communication with various aspects of contemporary society. 

Call for Papers

We invite empirical, conceptual and critical research from various perspectives on communication and media studies in contemporary society. 

Inter/multidisciplinary approaches to theoretical, methodological and philosophical inquiries with new and alternative imaginaries of sustainability, peace, hope and resilience are welcome. 

The call for papers encourages explorations into the socio-cultural transformations evolving alongside media and communication practices and concepts.

We live in an increasingly individual-centred era marked by an existential fragility that affects all aspects of our lives and invites us to strongly rethink our agency, representations, affiliations, capacities, and horizons. 

In addition to the military conflicts that are proliferating and the concerns about the economic, cultural and community fragmentation of hyper-modern societies and emerging continents, the rampant presence of micro-compromises due to the absence of meaningful and ethical communication is an area that this conference strives to highlight through creative and innovative as well as path-breaking work of scholars. 

Our societies are to a large extent organised as production machines, whereas human beings are spiritual and creative beings, thereby creating a mismatch. This conference, therefore, also wants to explore how we can organise communities in ways that make people thrive by rethinking our direction towards sustainability, our connection to nature, our new orientations imbued with the old, and changing global politics, communities and societies, governance and economies. 

At the heart of these transitions, the practices, methods, theories and philosophies of media and communication play a crucial role in the discourse of sustainability, and in how individuals, societies, cultures, media and the state intersect.

Further, the prevalence of intrapersonal and interpersonal communication and its expression through mass media has not received much attention in the media and communication academic community. 

A thorough investigation and discourse on this means the possibility of rethinking our lifestyles, our new orientations imbued with the old, and changing global politics, communities and societies, governance and economies. 

The fields of inquiry include but are not limited to the following: