25thAnnual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, 10-15 May 2027, Athens, Greece | |||
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| 1 | Managing Independent Open Access Journals: Sustainability, Accessibility, and Challenges in Contemporary Scholarly Publishing Academic Responsible: Dr. John Pavlik, Head, Mass Media and Communication Unit, Athens Institute & Professor, Rutgers University, USA. This microsymposium explores the evolving role of independent Open Access journals in scholarly communication. It will examine key issues related to sustainability, accessibility, editorial management, quality assurance, visibility, and publishing ethics. The session aims to foster discussion on the opportunities and challenges facing independent OA journals and their contribution to the future of academic publishing. | ||
| 2 | Compounding Wars and Conflict Resolution: Reporting Critical Views from Academia Academic Responsible: Dr. Festus Eribo, Professor, East Carolina University, USA. The relentless violence across continents in the first quarter of the 21st century and the tantamount human toll is a civilizational failure. The world is watching the first draft of the history of a macabre display of a different kind of warfare driven by drones, missiles, and new communication technologies. In this first draft of the macabre history of the ongoing turmoil in Europe, the Middle East, and other parts of the world, the vitriolic messages have been confounding, deplorable, and tragic. The turbulence is created by unnatural human cruelty. The invention of deadlier weapons and the ubiquity of violence necessitate the intervention of objective scholars in de-escalating, deterring, mitigating, and preventing wars, drums of war, and messages of war through constructive, impactful, and progressive communication and the media. The global picture of human toll and misery perpetrated by warriors of all stripes is alarming. It is imperative that scholars harness new ideas, propagate crystallized intelligence, and use new technologies in a frontal intellectual battle with the primitive legacy of bellicosity inherited over time. The historicity and universality of aggression, conflicts, and wars are well documented. It is embarrassing in the 21st century that homo sapiens are refusing to evolve beyond the basal inclination to fight one another. It is time to deconstruct the ancestral and archaic toga of armament, rearmament, and killing of fellow humans. The disruption of peace is indescribably barbaric, monstrous, and mischievous. It is a challenge to civilization. This Micro-symposium offers an additional opportunity to leverage various branches of communication, including human communication, organizational communication, media ethics, and mass communication in the discourse of war and peace. |
