2026 MED PRO

1. Faith Valente, Professor, North Idaho College, USA.
   Carl Bozman, Professor, Gonzaga University, USA.
   Title: The Relative Influence of Brand Trust Dimensions.
2. Laura Trujillo, Professor & Researcher, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico.
   Title: The Paradox of Progress: How Linguistic Evolution Deepens Communicative Inequalities.
3. Frank Gessner, Professor, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Germany.
   Title: A Spherical Book in Progress: A Virtual House of the Wor(l)ds.
4. *Mojca Pajnik, Researcher, The Peace Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia.
   Title: Beyond (Dis)Trust: Audience’s Emotional Strategies and Epistemic Practices in the Digital Media Environment.
5. *Molly Lode, Master’s Student, Eastern New Mexico University, USA.
   Title: Cultivation Theory and Ethical Dilemmas in Science Fiction Television.

1. *Festus Eribo, Professor, East Carolina University, USA.
   Title: Communicating War and Peace: Application of Scholarship to Global Crisis.
2. Laura Prividera, Professor and Director, School of Communication, East Carolina University, USA.
   Title: Communicating War and Peace: Application of Scholarship to Global Crisis.
3. Aysel Morin, Professor, East Carolina University, USA.
   Title: Undoing the Enemy: Toward a Rhetoric of Peace.
4. Naila Hamdy, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, The American University in Cairo, Egypt.
   Title: Narrating War in the Digital Age: Social Media and the Gaza Conflict.
5. Corina Barbaros, Associate Professor, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania.
   Title: Liliana Beniuc, Associate Professor, Moldova State University, Moldova.
   Diana Hîrbu, Associate Professor, Moldova State University, Moldova.
   Title: Institutional Strategic Communication and Security Culture in the Geopolitical Context: Constructing Resilience Through Discourse.

1. Maria Petrova Bakardjieva, Professor, University of Calgary, Canada.
   Title: Politics by Other Means: Identity, Affect and Spectacle in Sport and War.
2. Naila Hamdy, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, The American University in Cairo, Egypt.
   Title: From Stadiums to Battlefields: Sports, Media, and the Making of War Narratives in the Middle East.
3. Theodore Trafalis, Professor, The University of Oklahoma, USA.
   Title TBA
4. Gregory T. Papanikos, Professor (Adjunct), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
   Title: Goals and Geopolitics: How Media Frames Iran, the U.S., and the 2026 World Cup.

1. Seong Choul Hong, Professor, Kyonggi University, South Korea.
   Title: Third-Person Effects of Meta-verse Bullying: Perceived Influence, Social Distance, and Support for Regulation.
2. Elsa G. Sánchez Huerta, Professor, Universidad Panamericana, México.
   Title: Education as a Means of Encounter and Understanding for Different Generations.
3. *Aleksandar Kocic, Lecturer, Edinburgh Napier University, UK.
   Title: Does Local Radio Have a Future?
4. Katerina Korinkova Sobotkova, PhD Candidate, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.
   Title: Format, Genre, Legitimacy: The Traitors Between Public Service and Market Logics.

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1. *Brian Massey, Professor, East Carolina University, USA.
   Title: Unifying Theories of Journalism Through the Principles of Quantum Physics.
2. *Chris Ulasi, Professor & Chair, Department of Radio, Television and Film, Texas Southern University, USA.
   Title: Beyond Two Worlds, Beyond Borders: How Nigerian-Americans Are Redefining Identity in the Digital Age.
3. Ioannis Kontos, Assistant Professor, United Arab Emirates University, UAE.
   Title: Algorithmic Deception and the Reinvention of Photojournalism.
4. Memory Mabika, Lecturer, University of Venda, South Africa.
   Title: A Netnographic Analysis of TikTok Interactions in Indigenous Languages: The Case of Tshivenda and ChiShona.

1. Yen-Jung Chang, Professor, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan.
   Ching-Yi Peng, Assistant Professor, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taiwan.
   Title: A Qualitative Study on Hypertensive Patients’ Perceptions of Marketing Strategies in Food and Supplement Advertising in Taiwan.
2. Hande Bilsel, Associate Professor, Bahçeşehir University, Türkiye.
   Murat Copcu, Assistant Professor, Bahçeşehir University, Türkiye.
   Title: From Monsters to Mascots: Anthropomorphized Germs in Hygiene Advertising.
3. *Kevin Onyenankeya, Senior Lecturer, University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
   Title: Improving Functional and Interactive Health Literacy at the Community Level: The Nexus of Indigenous Language Radio Programming.
4. Lusie Ende, Researcher, University of Kassel, Germany.
   Title: Executional Greenwashing by Natural Sounds? The Impact of Product Color and Background Sound on the Sustainability Rating of Online Presented Fashion.

1. Maria Bakardjieva, Professor, University of Calgary, Canada.
   Title: Two Shades of Grassroots Illiberalism: Investigating the Discursive Construction of a Global Phenomenon.
2. Mariam Adamashvili, Assistant Professor, Georgian National University SEU, Georgia.
   Title: Media Ethics in the Context of Covering Religious Issues According to the Guidelines and Ethical Coverage Manuals of Western and Georgian Media Organizations.
3. Diana Liparteliani, Assistant Professor, Georgian National University SEU, Georgia.
   Title: Media Polarization, Manipulative Practices and Democratic Vulnerability in Small States (The Case of Georgia).
4. Anastasija Tetarenko-Supe, PhD Candidate & Researcher, University of Latvia, Latvia.
   Title: How to Win the Attention War? Politically Motivated Discreditation of Media in Latvia.

1. Brian Massey, Professor, East Carolina University, USA.
   Title: Trivializing War: Performance Politics and U.S.-Iran Football Spat.
2. John V. Pavlik, Professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, School of Communication & Information, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA.
   Title: From Prediction Markets to Artificial Intelligence: How Emerging Technology Is Reshaping the Landscape of Sports, Media and War.
3. Corina Barbaros, Associate Professor, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania.
   Title: Sport as a Strategic Communication Arena in Times of War.
4. TBA