The Media and Culture International Conference, organized by the Interdisciplinary Research Foundation will take place on 17th February 2018 at the University of London in London, United Kingdom. The conference will cover areas like media and communication sector becomes ever more diverse and dynamic.

Nowadays we live and breathe media, minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour. News, television, social media, celebrity culture, music, and more. As the media and communication sector becomes ever more diverse and dynamic, and we are going to consume it, we also need to understand it.

Today, the new bio-technical forms of life produced by mainstream digital media and by a whole range of artistic and non-artistic practices confront us with unprecedented theoretical questions, which can be dealt with by combining profound and perplexing perspectives. We need appropriate theoretical frameworks in order to understand the phenomena.

The conference will bring together speakers from various fields, including mass media, film studies, games industries, political sciences, education, etc., creating closer ties and connections among scholars from different disciplines working on visual and media studies.

Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:

Media Cultures
Cultural representation and power in media
Politics of media and media in politics
Censorship, affront and censoriousness in media
Media Theory
Psychology of media and communications
The idea of the virtual
Cybernetics
Media discourses
Media analytics
Media Technologies and Processes
Mass media and broadcast media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines
Cinema and documentary
Typographic media
Internet and online media
Social media
Media Business
Media management
Intellectual property
Globalization of media
Advertising and marketing
Media Literacies
Media education
Media training and workforce development