Media Streams

Date
Microsymposiums organized as part of the
23rdAnnual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, 12-15 May 2025, Athens, Greece
Abstract Submission Information
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12-15 May 2025
Communicating War and Peace: Application of Scholarship to Global Crises
Academic Responsible:
Dr. Festus Eribo, Professor, East Carolina University, USA.
With the invention of more deadly weapons and the ubiquity of violence, scholars should be more involved in preventing, deterring, de-escalating, and mitigating wars, drums of wars, and messages of wars 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 killings of fellow humans. The disruption of peace and the destructiveness in wars are indescribably barbaric, monstrous, and mischievous. The theater is a challenge to civilization. This Micro-symposium is significant because it offers additional opportunity to leverage various branches of communication, including human communication, organizational communication, media ethics, and mass communication in the discourse on war and peace.
Deadline: 1 April 2025
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12-15 May 2025
Media and Olympic Games
Academic Responsible:
Dr. Mario Nicoliello, Academic Member, ATINER & Researcher, University of Brescia, Italy.
We welcome abstracts in any area dealing with the link between media coverage and the Olympic Games. In particular, the session intends to investigate on the one hand how organisers of the Olympic Games have changed their communications style and on the other how the Olympic Games appear on the mass media.
Deadline: 1 April 2025
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12-15 May 2025
Media and Climate Change: Call to Action
Academic Responsible:
Dr. I. Arul Aram, Chairperson, Faculty of Science and Humanities, Anna University, Chennai, India
The microsymposium explores the relationship between the media and climate change. How the media shapes public understanding of climate change, and motivates the public towards climate action is the focal area. Varied media outlets, from traditional journalism to digital platforms, highlight issues such as carbon footprints, deforestation, and finding alternatives to carbon emissions. Development, which is the driver of progress, often has environmental consequences. The media looks for stories of sustainable practices and climate change. Diverse spheres of media coverage such as politics, economy, education, tourism, and civic amenities can mainstream climate coverage by interweaving climate science into the story. The media amplifies the voices of climate scientists and activists, by contexualising the scientific literature and happenings in a language understandable by the common people. Here, we will look into the challenges the media faces in combating climate change. Collaboration among journalists, environmentalists, and policymakers is needed for communicating climate change. This dialogue on the media and climate change will drive sustainable development, and help protect the earth for future generations.
Keywords: Carbon footprints, communicating climate change, sustainable development, environmentalists
Deadline: 1 April 2025
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