ICCMS 2026

Call for Papers

International Conference on Communication and Media Studies 2026 provides a leading forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Communication and Media Studies. The conference will bring together leading researchers, businessman and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world. Accordingly, topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

Tracks of Conference

  • Mass versus niche media
  • Audience and practices of participation in media
  • Cultural representation and power in media
  • Popular culture in the media
  • Feminist analyses of media
  • Politics of media and media in politics
  • (In)equities in access, and digital divide
  • Censorship, affront and censoriousness in media
  • Bodily presence and embodiment in media
  • Communications theory
  • Multicultural media
  • Psychology of media and communications
  • Telepresence and time-space compressions
  • Cybernetics
  • The idea of the virtual
  • Mediation and remediation
  • Media discourses: vicarious and participatory
  • Ideologies in media, manipulation and propaganda
  • Information theory
  • Media analytics
  • Mass media and broadcast media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines
  • Cinema and documentary
  • Typographic media, from print to postscript
  • Photography, from film to digital
  • Hypermedia and multimedia
  • Internet and online media
  • Social media
  • Informatics: code and data in media
  • Political economy of media
  • Media management
  • Advertising and marketing
  • News media and journalism: changing dimensions of a profession
  • Public relations as text and profession
  • The changing publishing industry
  • Intellectual property, between copyright and commons
  • Reputational economies
  • Globalization of media
  • Media education
  • Media training and workforce development
  • From learning management systems to MOOCs: e-learning environments as educational media
  • Self-instructing media and informal learning
  • Over-the-shoulder learning

Conference Proceedings

All submitted conference papers will be blind peer reviewed by three competent reviewers. The peer-reviewed conference proceedings are indexed in the Open Science Index, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Zendo, OpenAIRE, BASE, WorldCat, Sherpa/RoMEO, and other index databases.

Journal Publications

ICCMS 2026 has signed up with various Journals. A number of selected high-impact full-text papers will also be considered for journal issues. All submitted papers will have the opportunity to be considered for this Journal Issue. The Conference Chair will recommend the Journal for the full inclusion post-conference. The paper selection will be carried out during the peer review process as well as at the conference presentation stage. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. The final decision for paper selection will be made based on peer review reports by the Guest Editors and the Editor-in-Chief jointly.