IAMCR 2016 Conference

Polity will be available for you to discuss your publishing needs within the Participant Conference Hub throughout the whole week and you can also purchase some of their recent and new books. You can download their current catalogue below. 

Polity is an international publisher in the social sciences and humanities and our list features some of the world’s leading thinkers. We combine the publication of original, cutting-edge work of the highest quality with a systematic programme of textbooks and course books for students and scholars in further and higher education.

Many of our books are of interest to a general readership and are widely reviewed and discussed in the media. We are committed to publishing topical books with a critical edge that stimulate public debate about key issues in social, political and cultural life.

We are also committed to the diffusion of ideas across language barriers and we have a major translation programme. Among the many authors we translate are Pierre Bourdieu, Jürgen Habermas, T.W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Peter Sloterdijk, Ulrich Beck, Hans Fallada, Primo Levi, Adonis, Antonio Negri, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Rancière, Paul Ricoeur, François Laruelle, Catherine Malabou and Bruno Latour.

Established in 1984, Polity has grown rapidly into one of the world’s most distinguished publishing houses. We are an independent company with offices in Cambridge and Oxford in the UK and Boston and New York in the US. Polity is a global English-language publisher and our books are available throughout the world. Sales representation and distribution are provided by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

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There are various locations for lunch:

• Each day there is a buffet served within the Conference Hub, located in Charles Wilson;
• Chi and Delicious also both found in Charles Wilson offer a free meal and drink when you show your badge;
• Parkside lounge, located on the first floor of Charles Wilson, also offering a free meal and drink;
• Outside Attenborough building is also a BBQ each day

Polity will be available for you to discuss your publishing needs within the Participant Conference Hub throughout the whole week and you can also purchase some of their recent and new books. You can download their current catalogue below. 

Polity is an international publisher in the social sciences and humanities and our list features some of the world’s leading thinkers. We combine the publication of original, cutting-edge work of the highest quality with a systematic programme of textbooks and course books for students and scholars in further and higher education.

Many of our books are of interest to a general readership and are widely reviewed and discussed in the media. We are committed to publishing topical books with a critical edge that stimulate public debate about key issues in social, political and cultural life.

We are also committed to the diffusion of ideas across language barriers and we have a major translation programme. Among the many authors we translate are Pierre Bourdieu, Jürgen Habermas, T.W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Peter Sloterdijk, Ulrich Beck, Hans Fallada, Primo Levi, Adonis, Antonio Negri, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Rancière, Paul Ricoeur, François Laruelle, Catherine Malabou and Bruno Latour.

Established in 1984, Polity has grown rapidly into one of the world’s most distinguished publishing houses. We are an independent company with offices in Cambridge and Oxford in the UK and Boston and New York in the US. Polity is a global English-language publisher and our books are available throughout the world. Sales representation and distribution are provided by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

Sign up to our mailing list to receive bulletins about our books and authors.

• Ruhdan Uzun (Gazi University, Turkey):Responsibilities and the Related Parties for Protecting Children from Harmful Content inNew Media: An Ethical Approach.- This paper will not be presented because the government of Turkey has violated academic freedom by imposing a ban on foreign travel for Turkish academics.
• Yuan Yuan (Hong Kong Baptist University, HongKong), and Kun Fu (University of West Scotland,UK): Exploring the Relationship BetweenSpectators’ Personality Traits and GratificationExperiences of Watching Online Game Streams.
• Hee Jhee Jiow (Singapore Institute ofTechnology, Singapore), Julian Lin (NationalUniversity of Singapore, Singapore), and SunSun Lim (National University of Singapore,Singapore): Influence of Parenting Style onMediation of Gaming -Differences betweenAuthoritative Parents and Neglectful Parents

• Sarah Maltby (University of Sussex, UK): Media-Remembering the Falklands War: Subjectivity,Identity and Agency.
• Aleksandra Kubica (King’s College London,UK): Moving Memory: Travelling Museum and Narratives about Former Inhabitants in RuralPoland.
• Rosana Vivar (University of Granada, Spain):“Are you going to the bloody war?” The BasqueCountry of the 90s as Told by a Cult FilmAudience.
• Yearry Panji Setianto (Sultan Ageng TirtayasaUniversity, Indonesia), and Nurist Surayya Ulfa(Diponegoro University, Indonesia): Nostalgiaof Someone Else’s Memory: TransnationalAudience Reception of Korean Retro TV Drama‘Answer Me’ Series.

• Janey Gordon and Lawrie Hallett (University of Bedfordshire, UK): Media and Migration - the role of community radio in the settlement of new migrant communities 

• Maria Madalena Oliveira (University of Minho, Portugal): Voicing audiences-- empowering listeners: arguments to encourage community radio in Portugal

• Heather Anderson (University of South Australia) and Charlotte Bedford (University of Adelaide, Australia): If we only knew then what we know now: Radio as a means of empowerment for women of prison experience 

• Gita Zadnikar (Institute for Civilization and Culture, Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenia): Radio Libere: An Experiment with Radio Broadcasting. How Can Theories and Memories of the Past Help Us Understand Alternative Media (Today)

• Stuart Davis (Texas A&M University, US): Theorizing Citizen Journalism as Practice: Interrogating the Discursive Field of Activist Media Production

• Pantelis Vatikiotis (Kadir Has University, Turkey): Networked movements: another ‘paradigm’? -This paper will not be presented because the government of Turkey has violated academic freedom by imposing a ban on foreign travel for Turkish academics.

• Sasha Costanza-Chock (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US): Transformative media organizing: Findings from a field scan of LGBTQ & Two-Spirit community media in the United States.

• Cindy Cheung-Kwan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong): Theorizing Community Communication as Practices – Departing the Information Transmission Model and Arriving at the Social

• Anna Feigenbaum (Bournemouth University): Using social media to monitor police use of force: A case study of the Riot ID project 
• Silvio Waisbord (George Washington University) and Maria Soledad Segura (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba): When civic mobilization successfully impacts media policy: Lessons from contemporary experiences in Latin America
• Lina Dencik (Cardiff University): Mobilising 'Data Justice': Reframing digital surveillance in relation to social justice 
• Bart Cammaerts (London School of Economics and Political Science): Communication Freedoms and Communication Rights: normative struggles within civil society and beyond

• Joao Guilherme Casagrande Martinelli Lima Granja Xavier da Silva (University of Brasilia/Federal Government Brasil): Crisis and policy management strategy: the case of humanitarian reception of Haitian immigrants in Brasil 2010-2015.
• Nadia Wasta Utami (Islamic University of Indonesia): The Communication Strategies of Actors In Conflict Resolution of Ahmadiyya In Tasikmalaya.
• Patricia SanMiguel (Universidad de Navarra), and Teresa Sádaba (Universidad de Navarra): Crisis communication in the fashion sector: The Rana Plaza events-- worst accident in the history of fashion manufacturing.
• Sami Siddiq (University of Auckland): Framing the Raymond Davis affair: crisis communication in a U.S.-Pakistan diplomatic immunity dispute.

• Alexandra Nutter Smith (University of Washington – Tacoma, USA): Remember, Reclaim, Reimagine: The Digital Presentation of Millennial Domesticity 

• Changwook Kim (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA): The Political Subjectivation of Korean Creative workers: Living and Working as Urban Precariat in Creative City Seoul   

• Minjoo Lee (University of Tokyo, Japan): Still Blaming the Victim? Framing Analysis of “New Poverty” in Japanese Television Documentaries in 2000s  

• Kate Zambon (University of Pennsylvania, USA) and Marta Iturrate (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain): Immigrants in the Catalanist Project: The Politics of Language and Culture in the Push for Independence  

• Jhessica Reia (Center for Technology and Society, Brazil): Media and the City: Technology, Regulation, and the Uses of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro

• Mthobeli Ngcongo (University of Free State, South Africa) and Jabulani Mnisi (University of Johannesburg, South Africa): Looking Back to Look Forward: Re-humanization Through Consumption in Post-Apartheid South Africa  

• Nour Halabi (University of Pennsylvania, USA): Recreating Syria: Nostalgia and Home-building in Sarouja Restaurant   

• Jonathan Henson (University of Texas Austin, USA): Archive of Bare Life: Indefinite Detention as Punishment by Forgetting  

• Leon Alick Salter (Massey University, New Zealand): The Sublime Objects of Data and Choice: The Lacanian Theory of Ideology and Media Representations of Education Policies in Aotearoa New Zealand

• Derek Moscato (University of Oregon): Astroturfing and the Ecological Rift: Environmental Discourse and the Energy East Grassroots Advocacy Vision Document 

• Bernhard Forchtner (University of Leicester): Networks of scepticism and denial. Far-right environmental risk communication about climate change 

• Jo Bates & Paula Goodale (University of Sheffield): Discourses, disputes and silences in making data flow for the climate risk market  

• Pietari Kaapa (University of Stirling): Environmental incentives for the media industry: a materialist perspective on ecomedia  

• Isaltina Maria de Azevedo Mello Gomes & Natália Martins Flores (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco): Zika Virus and Risk Communication: social actors and discursive strategies in the dissemination of scientific information

• Jun Li (University of Macau, Macau) and Xiaoqin Li (University of Macau, Macau): Media as a Core Political Resource: Young Feminist Movement in China

• Galina Miazhevich (University of Leicester, UK): Performing Post-Soviet Feminism: The Case of TV Celebrity Kseniya Sobchak 

• Azeta Hatef (Pennsylvania State University, USA): “The Most Feminist Show on Television”: A Feminist Analysis of British Crime Drama “The Fall”

• Elizabeth Prommer (University of Rostock, Germany) and Skadi Liost (University of Rostock, Germany): Where are the Female Movie Directors in Europe? A Severn Country Study 

• Gitiara Nasreen (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh): From Screen to Screen: Women’s Experience of Watching Cinema in Urban Bangladesh 

• Wajiha Raza Rizvi (Film Museum Society, Pakistan): The Censorship of Visual Pleasure in Pakistani Films II

• Suresh K Shanmughan (University of Hyderabad):  Interrogating state episteme on health communication: a critical study of family planning communication in India from 1950-1970 

• James   Alexander   Forbes (York   University):   Quilts   and   Candlelight:   Marginalization, Memory, and the Stigmatization of HIV+ Long Term Survivors in Canadian ASO’s 

• Marjorie Kyomuhendo (Makerere University): Framing family planning campaign messages in Uganda. A retrospective analysis of poster messages disseminated between 2000 and 2015 

• Eliza Melissa Govender (University of KwaZulu-Natal):  Transitions in the HIV prevention landscape: Drawing on past lessons to advance future HIV prevention technology options for women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

• Juergen Wilke (Univ of Mainz, Germany): Combatting ‘subversive activities’: surveillance in the early nineteenth century and its memory in Germany

• Gideon Kouts (Universite Paris 8, France): Bypassing surveillance and censorship in the 19th century Hebrew and Jewish press in Europe

• Karin Assmann (University Of Maryland, Usa): (Un)-covering government surveillance in the late 1960s and early 1970s 

• Beatrice Mbogoh (Daystar University, Kenya): Pre-colonial publications and their contribution in kenya

• Hakan Yuksel (Ankara University, Turkey): Why innis is important for Islam history -This paper will not be presented because the government of Turkey has violated academic freedom by imposing a ban on foreign travel for Turkish academics.

• Wang Yan (Zhejiang University Of Technology, China): On the prehistory of framing theory

• Sabina Mihelj (Loughborough Univeristy, Uk) & James Stanyer (Loughborough University): Thinking change and communication 

• Jostein Gripsrud (Univ Of Bergen, Norway): Writing a history of a public sphere: key issues

• Abeer Khalid Alsaiari (United Kingdom): The demonization of Muslims in British newspapers
• Mubashar Hasan (University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh, Bangladesh): Globalization of the War on Terror: How Media 
• Constructs a " Nation' within a "Nation' in Bangladesh
• Shah Nister Kabir (Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh and Universiti Brunei, Darussalam) and Sharifah Nurul Huda Alkaff (Universiti Brunei Darussalam): Iconising Terrorist Images: Muslims in British print media and popular Perceptions
• Mohammad Raudy Gathmyr (School of Humanities, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia): Constructing Islamic Groups on Mainstream Media : A Critical Discourse  Analysis of Media Production in Indonesia

• Muniz Sodre Cabral (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro): Media and social rights in Brazil
• Dmitry Gavra (St. Petersburg State University): Journalism and democracy in Russia: Between the old heritage and modern challenges
• Daya Thussu (University of Westminster): Dividends or dangers? Digital media in the world’s largest democracy
• Colin Sparks (Hong Kong Baptist University): What can contemporary China teach us about the media and democracy?
• Viola Milton (University of South Africa): Media and Democracy in South Africa: The case of the public service broadcaster

• Karin Wilkins (University of Texas at Austin): Global Hollywood in Mediating US Narratives of the Middle East
• Jia Lu (Tsinghua University): The internet, mobile phone and geographical identities: local, national and global in 45 countries”
• Colleen Connolly-Ahern(Pennsylvania State University), Emel Ozdora (Bilkent University), Daniela Dimitrova (Iowa State University), and Ruth Mendum (Penn State College of Liberal Arts): Framing a Humanitarian Crisis: Content Analysis of Refugee Coverage from Five European Nations
• Janet Kwami (Furman University): Syrian migrants’ crisis: Differences in media coverage in the United States and the Middle East

• Inkyu Kang (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Between “Democratized  Journalism” and “Degraded  Journalism”:  The Evolution  of  the Discourses of Citizen Journalism since OhmyNews 
• Kristoffer Holt (Linnaeus University, Sweden) 'Citizen journalism on the Swedish horizon'
• Omar Al-Ghazzi (Sheffield University, UK): Making sense of the global digital news ecology: Power dynamics in the reporting of Syria
• Nareshchandra Rai (Robert Gordon University, UK): The discursive reproduction of Bhutanese national identity in the coverage of bhutannews-service.com news' 

• Michiel Johnson  Steve Paulussen & Peter Van  Aelst ( (University of Antwerp, Belgium): Tracking the source networks of economic journalists on Twitter and offline 
• Vered Elishar-Malk & Yaron Ariel  (Max Stern Yezreel Valley Academic College, Israel): Twitter as a Journalistic work-tool: The unique Israeli case-study
• Megan Knight (University of Hertfordshire, UK): The accused is entering the courtroom: the live-tweeting of a murder trial
• Susana Herrera Damas & Miguel Moya Sánchez (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain): Journalism as a public forum? The persuasive potential of Spanish journalists in Twitter 

• Basyouni Hamada (Qatar University, Qatar) & Thomas Hanitzsch (LMU Munich, Germany): Autonomy and Safety of Journalists: Evidence from the Worlds of Journalism Study
• Jacqueline Harrison (University of Sheffield, UK): Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity
• Mireya Marquez Ramirez (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico): Risk,  Threats  and  Journalists'  Protective  Measures:  The  Pressures on  Journalists'  Autonomy           and Freedom of the Press in Mexico
• Chris Paterson (University of Leeds, UK): The  erosion  of  an  international  law  basis  for  state accountability:  the  problem  posed  by large states
• Albana Shala (Chair of UNESCO’s International Programme for Development of Communication - IPDC): UNESCO’s Work on Safety of Journalists
• Gayathry Venkiteswaran (University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Malaysia): Barriers to ending impunity in journalists' killings: Some trends and research ideas 

• Manuel Sánchez de Diego (S. Dptal. Derecho Constitucional, Universidad Complutense de Madrid -España): Nuevos derechos fundamentales sobre comunicación.
• Remedio Sánchez Ferriz (Universidad de Valencia) and Loreto Corredoira (Professor of Communication Law Complutense University Madrid): El derecho a comunicar: de la Carta Magna Libertarum de Juan Sin Tierra (1215) a la Constitucionalización de las libertades informativas
• Rolando Guevara-Martínez (UNAM): Hacia la construcción Del Derecho a la Comunicación. Historia y evolución en la Constitución mexicana.

• Loli Campos (Nova University of Lisbon & University of Texas at Austin, Portugal colab): How Parents Should Talk with Their Children about Terrorism: the News Media Perspective 
• Marta Narberhaus Martinez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) and Monica Figueras-Maz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): News for the Citizens to be
• Efrat Daskal (The Open University of Israel, Israel): Let’s be Careful Out There: How Digital Rights Advocates Educate Citizens in the Digital Age
• Manisha Pathak-Shelat (MICA, Ahmedabad, India) and Kiran Bhatia (MICA, Ahmedabad, India): Young People’s Participation and Civic Engagement through Discursive Practices in a Networked Community: Global Civic Websites as Spaces for Realizing Young People’s Civic Rights 

• Helena Dias Lima (University of Porto), Paulo Frias (University of Porto), and Sara Sampaio (University of Porto): The crowdsourcing features in P3 project. From an initial experience towards a steady collaborative digital community?
• Michael B. Munnik (Cardiff University): Perceptions of Negativity among Muslim Sources Engaging with News Media. 
• Paul Stringer (University of Leeds): Researching News Production at Net-Native News Organisations: Early Observations and Challenges.

• Tony Wilson (London School of Economics): ‘Underwriting Media Users Looking Back, Looking Forward: Phenomenology for a Non-Media-Centric Media Studies’
• Murali Shanmugavelan (University College of London): Critical notes on the idea called THE OPEN
• Friedrich Lothar Krotz (University of Bremen): Mediatization studies: from the system of single independent media to a computer controlled digital infrastructure and some consequences. 
• Jher (University of Oregon): Materiality, Life, and Mediated Communication: Remembering John Dewey's Three Plateaus 

• Sue Pell (Richmond, The American International University in London, UK): Activist archives: Mediating social justice in the past, present and future.
• Ruth Sanz Sabido (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK): Critical ethnography of memory: Local memories of Francoist repression in Spain.
• Arno van der Hoeven (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands): Urban memories on social media: remembering, sharing and mapping.
• Caja C. Thimm and Patrick Nehls (University of Bonn, Germany): Creating mini-publics of commemoration:  Sharing memories and mourning on Instagram.
• Kamilla Petrick (York University, Canada) and Sandra Jeppesen (Lakehead University Orillia, Canada): Forging "history from below" - what role for alternative journalism?
• Dionysis Panos (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus) and Stella Theocharous (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus): The oral transmission of the empirical experience as 'historic information':  The case of the 1974 events in Cyprus.

• Christina Sanko (University of Bremen): Memory-related Communication Repertoires: Generational Memory Work in Urban Vietnam
• Anders Høg Hansen (School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University): Reclusive Openness Remediated
• Ryan Rui Yang Tan (Nanyang Technological University) & Vivian Hsueh-Hua Chen (Nanyang Technological University): Narrative Experiences in Video Games: Temporality in Story-telling
• Añulika Agina (Pan Atlantic  University):Memory – Conflict and Restoration: TheReception of Niger Delta Films in the 20thAnniversary of the Death of Ken Saro-Wiwa

• Yu Hong, (University of Southern California, United States): Media Giants in the Making: Tencent, China Mobile and Shanghai Media Group
• Benjamin J. Birkinbine (University of Nevada-Reno, United States): The Microsoft Corporation
• Gabriela Martínez (University of Oregon, United States): Telefónica
• Scott Fitzgerald (Curtin University, Australia): Time Warner and the changing ecology of television
• Chris Chavez (University of Oregon, United States): Interpublic Group of Companies 

• Wu Changchang, (East China Normal University, China): Uber’s Entry into China: Financial Capital, Class Divide and the ‘Golden Ages’ of the Internet + 
• Wang Wei, (University of Southern California, United States): The Political Economy of China’s Agricultural Informatization
• Ji Deqiang, (Communication University of China, China): The Power Structure of Big Data in China: Myths and Political Economy
• Zhao Yu, (Zhejiang University, China): From Neo-liberal De-regulation to Authoritative Re-regulation: The Development Trajectory of OTT in China and the (un)Doing of the Cultural Leadership Boundaries: China’s Digital Privacy Law and Non-Institutional Information

• Amelia Aben Athar Olinto Ramos (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil): Democracy drowned in Numbers: Election Polls and News Reporting in Brazil’s 2014 Presidential Campaign
• Dominic Wring (Loughborough University, UK): All change in the British media and UK politics?  Continuities and changes in news coverage of General Elections
• Albert Mercadé (Pompeu Fabra University), Cristina Perales (Universitat de Vic & Universitat Central de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain): The representation of the Catalan independence process in the Spanish, Catalan and English media
• Philippe J. Maarek (Université Paris-Est, France) : The Limits of Personalization of French Political Communication
• Julio Juárez-Gámiz (UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico): The Mexican Green Party’s smoke and mirrors: from political communication effects to backward real politic in the mid-term election of 2015

• Kerem Schamberger (University of Munich, Germany): Restrictions on media freedom during the 2016 elections in Uganda 
• Marie-Soleil Frère (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Anke Fiedler (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium): Media and electoral crisis in Burundi: Silencing the 'voice of the voiceless' 
• Jose A. Brambila (University of Leeds, United Kingdom): Anti Press-Violence in Post-authoritarian Societies: Sub-national Comparisons in Contemporary Mexico
• Sarah Elizabeth Broughton Micova (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom): From Post-socialist to New Authoritarian Media Systems in Europe
• Florencia Enghel (Stockholm University, Sweden): Media matters in the desert of post-socialism: the view of local experts looking back and looking forward

• Dr. Carmen Fuente-Cobo (Centro Universitario Villanueva, Spain): Contribution of religion to media ethics. An approach to user's media ethics from the side of Catholic Social Teaching
• Prof. Yoel Cohen (Ariel University, Israel): Israeli Rabbis and Mass Media: Between Theology and Practice
• Dr Priscila Vieira e Souza (University of London, Britain): Protestant Visuality in Brazil: Iconoclasm and the production of images by the Audio Visual Evangelical Centre – CAVE
• Professor Shelton A. Gunaratne (Moorhead State University) & Ms Yoke-Sim Gunaratne (Cultural Diversity Resources, Minnesota): "A New Vision of Reality for Communication Research: Call for a paradigm shift to systems view of life."

• Anna Beatriz Lisboa de Vasconcelos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): The amputated memory: Self-fabulation in the outskirts of Brazil
• Thomas Wiedemann (University of Munich Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany): Structure and Logic of the Field of Movie Directors in Germany   
• Fernanda Elouise Budag (Universidade de Sao Paulo – USP, Brazil): Visual culture and collective memory: the reproduction of cultural memory through the storytelling of a fictional television series

There are various locations for lunch:

• Each day there is a buffet served within the Conference Hub, located in Charles Wilson;
• Chi and Delicious also both found in Charles Wilson offer a free meal and drink when you show your badge;
• Parkside lounge, located on the first floor of Charles Wilson, also offering a free meal and drink;
• Outside Attenborough building is also a BBQ each day

Book Launch of Science, Entertainment and Television Documentary by Vincent Campbell (University of Leicester)

• Annette Hill (Lund University, Sweden): Spectrum of Engagement: production practices and audience experiences for crime drama The Bridge. 
• Jaume Suau, Pere Masip, Carlos Ruiz, Javier Guallar, and Albert Saez (University Ramon Llull, Spain): News’ redisemination and public debate on social networks. 
• Joanna Doona (Lund University, Sweden): Transgressing the boundaries in political media: audience constructions of political comedy. 
•  Ranjana Das (University of Leicester, United Kingdom), and Brita Ytre-Arne (University of Bergen, Norway): Lessons from the CEDAR consortium’s work on media audiences: Organisational, methodological and intellectual challenges.
  
  

• Saadia Ishtiaq Nauman (Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan): Mediatization of
• César Bárcenas Curtis (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México), and María Consuelo Lemus Pool (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México): The practices and habits of film spectator in a digital context. The case of Mexico City.
• Nelson Obinna Omenugha (University of Greenwich, United Kingdom): Audience’s cognitive attitude to Nollywood films’ representation of the pre-colonial South-East Nigeria. 
• Yu-Peng Lin (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom): The agency of informal media distribution: The case of Chinese subtitles group of art cinema. 

• Julie Uldam (Roskilde University, Denmark): What counts as legitimate activism? Challenges to radical activism in (social) media
• Panayiota Tsatsou (University of Leicester, UK): The role of social media in informal aspects of the organization of civic activism: the case of Facebook in the Sunflower Movement
• Jairo Faria Guedes Coelho, Pedro Henrique Pereira dos Santos and Milena dos Santos Marra (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil): Like, Share and Comment: Heritage, Community Communication and the Internet 
• Miranda Lai Yee Ma (Hong Kong Baptist University): Framing social cleavages and social media in social movements: A frame analysis of the Tsoi Yuen Resistance Movement in Hong Kong
• Ang Cao (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences): Female Migrant Workers’ Online Chatting-Group Research: Constructing Collective Identity in the Support of Labour NGOs 

• Dorothy Kidd (University of San Francisco): Extractivist Struggles and Video
• Anastasia Kavada (University of Westminster, UK): Rethinking communication power: Insights from the Occupy movement 
• Elizabeth Burrows (Griffith University, Australia): Some things change and some stay the same: Documenting the evolution of the Australian rights movement through an analysis of two Aboriginal publications
• Caitlin Miles (Texas A&M University, US): I’m living this life, too: Articulations of daily life, the local, and social change within the Nar Photos Collective#
• Ben Green (Griffith University, Australia): ‘40 years of peeling back the norm’: 4ZZZfm community radio station as icon

• Rikke Bjerg Jensen (Royal Holloway University of London): Keeping Up: Policy -- privacy and social media practices in the UK military
• Eleni Kioumi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Antonis Gardikiotis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): Friendship with members of the out group and anonymity in the social media context: Intergroup communication in Facebook groups
• Thomas Poell (University of Amsterdam), Jo Pierson (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Natali Helberger (University of Amsterdam): From contested to shared responsibility: online platforms and the transformation of Publicness
• Eduardo Campos Pellanda and André Fagundes Pase (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul): Ethical limits of cameras in Drones and Wearable’s

• Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob (American University of Nigeria): Memories of Displacement:  Conversations with Former Boko Haram Displaced Persons in North-East Nigeria.
• Daniela Grassau (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), Pablo M. Flores (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), and Soledad Puente (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile): Audiences' memories and expectations about TV news coverage of disasters: The Chilean experience of the past 30 years (1985-2015).
• Manuela Farinosi (University of Udine), and Alessandra Micalizzi (Catholic University of Sacred Heart): Social (Media) Memories and the permanence of the -past”.
• Anna Rantasila (University of Tampere), Anu Sirola (University of Tampere), Arto Kekkonen (University of Tampere), Katja Valaskivi (University of Tampere), and Risto Kunelius (University of Tampere): Affective Resonances of a Past Disaster: Remembering Japan’s 3.11 on Twitter.

• Bernadine Jones (University of Cape Town, South Africa): The Struggle Narrative: Censorship of Media in Post-Democracy South Africa and the ANC’ s Quest for Liberation Hegemony 
• Violeta Rodríguez Vargas (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico): House of Cards y ¿Cómo Se Ven los Periodistas? 
• Dragana Lazic (University of Tsukuba, Japan): Manifestations of Hate in Bosnian Online News Discussions: Word-Count and Qualitative Analysis of Hate Speech and Incivility
• Azwihangwisi Mufamadi (Rhodes University, South Africa): University of Cape Town Administrative Management, Rhodes Must Fall Movement and the Cape Times Newspaper: An Examination of ‘ Political Listening’  During the 2015 Student Protest at the University of Cape Town  

• Pieter Maeseele & Yves Pepermans (University of Antwerp): The politicization of climate change: Problem or solution?
• Ekaterine Basilaia (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University) & Pieter Maeseele (University of Antwerp): A longitudinal analysis of agonistic media pluralism in the reporting on the Khudoni power plant in Georgia from the Soviet era to today (1979-2014)
• Joana Diaz-Pont (Autonomous University of Barcelona): Partisanship and discursive strategies for politicization of climate change in European mobility week campaigns
• Laurens Van der Steen (University of Antwerp): Fairness, citizenship and (de)politicization: what with Fair Trade after commercialization?

• Concha Edo (Complutense University of Madrid), Elvira García de Torres (CEU CHUniversity of Valencia): The triviality of information as a trend in the Mobile Journalism
• Nikita Kothari (Independent Researcher, Global Shapers Community, Bhopal): Street to screen activism- a critical analysis of ethical issues in a digital society
• Luiz Peres-Neto (ESPM Brazil):    Ethical aspects of Brazilian and US internet media policies: a comparative case study
• Jung-chun Asenath Chang (Shih Hsin University, Taiwan, R.O.C.) Yu-Wei Hu (Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, R.O.C.): Reconstructing ethical norms of communicating celebrities words and deeds among netizens: A case study of Taiwan’s cyber bullying incident from Grounded Practical Theory approach

• Kyra Hunting (University of Kentucky, USA), Adriane Grumbein (University of Kentucky, USA), and Maria Cahill (University of Kentucky, USA): Schooled! Gender and Education Remembered and Reconsidered on Kid’s Television
• Ruchi Jaggi (Symbiosis International University, India): Children’s Perceptions of Gender Images in Indian Television Cartoons: A Reception Analysis
• Maryam Ghanim Al-Thani (Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar) and Hissa Majid Al-Sowaidi (Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar): Representation of Gender in STEM Oriented Children Animation Shows
• Buthaina Al Zaman (Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar) and Muneera Al Thani (Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar): Gender Disparities in Educaitonal Programs: Fog Al Sateh

• Debbie Ging (Dublin City University, Ireland): Memes, Masculinity and the Manosphere: Web 2.0 and the 
• Changing Communicative Politics of the Men’s Rights Movement
• Chiung Hwang Chen (Brigham Young University Hawaii, USA): (Re)defining Asian Masculinity in the Age of Global Media
• Nathaniel Weiner (York University, Canada): Mediated Memories and Mediated Masculinities: Looking Backwards in Online Menswear Communities
• Shweta Sharma (North Dakota State University, USA): Denying Victimhood or Justifying It: Representations of Male Victims of Rape 

• Trevor Cullen (Edith Cowan University): Sharing HIV and sexual health stories in the media: Findings from a pilot training program in Australia
• Neeraj Khattri (Jaipur National University): Efficacy of Radio in Creating Cognizance about HIV/AIDS in Delhi Slums, India
• Parichart Sthapitanonda (Chulalongkorn University), Chayanit Vivathanavanich (Chulalongkorn University): The Portrayal of Atheletes with Disability in News: The Reflections from Thailand

• Epp Lauk (Univ Of Jyvaskyla, Finland): impact of historical ruptures on the development of journalism as profession
• James Curran (Goldsmiths Univ Of London): An un-reformable press’ looking back, looking forward
• F. Segado-Boj (Universidad Internacional De La Rioja), Julio Montero Diaz (Universidad Internacional De La Rioja), Maria A. Paz-Rebollo (Universidad Complutense De Madrid): The teaching of media history at the world leading universities: a quantitative and qualitative comparison

• Chandrika Kaul (Univ of St Andrews, Scotland): The BBC and India: mediating empire, war and decolonisation  
• Audrey S. Gadzekpo (Univ Of Ghana): Battles at the microphone: reconstructing the role of Ghanaian radio in world war ii
• Nelson Costa Ribeiro (Catholic Univ Of Portugal): Memory construction through the media: how Salazar used newspapers and radio to recreate collective memories

• Abida Eijaz (Institute of Communication Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan):  Marginalization or Prominence: Literature Review of the 21st Century on the Patterns and Depictions of Muslims in Films
• Samah Ahmed (Malmo University, Sweden):  The Portrayal of Muslims in European Media: The Perception of Islam and Muslims in the Media and the Impact on Youth Radicalisation; Is the Response to Terror Becoming Radicalized'.
• Bouziane Zaid (Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco):  Content analysis of Islamic teachings in Arab satellite TV and YouTube programs

• Miri Moon (Brunel University London): “A paradigm shift? The propaganda model and international communication revisited”
• Altug Akin (Izmir University of Economics): “RememberingMarshall Plan and forgetting Turkey: Marshall Plan films in / about Turkey as an overture to develop”
• Luigi Di Martino (Western Sydney University): “The G20 2014 in Brisbane as a digital diplomacy case study”
• Swapnil Rai (University of Texas at Austin) and Joseph Straubhaar (University of Texas at Austin): “Organic or cultivated: comparing the soft power of cultural industry-driven versus state media-driven BRICS nations”
• Naomi Sakr (University of Westminster) “Smarter-stronger-kinder: Interests at stake in remaking Eftah Ya Simsim for Gulf children”

• Raquel Paiva (Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): “Status of community communication and journalism in Brazil today”
• Dimitri Gavra (Saint Petersburg State University) and Dmitry Strovsky (Ural Federal University): “Journalism and political protest in Russia” 
• Jyotika Ramaprasad (University of Miami): “The professional identity of Indian journalists”
• Rui Ming Zhou(Fudan University): “Ownership dynamics in China”
• Musawenkosi W. Ndlovu (University of Cape Town) and Herman Wasserman (University of Cape Town): “Changes in making news in South African journalism and their implications for journalists’ attention to their audience”

• Katrina Clifford (University of Tasmania, Australia: Digital news media and the changing iconography of crime and law enforcement 
• Stuart Allan (Cardiff University, UK), Mette Mortensen (University of Copenhagen, DK) & Chris Peters (Aalborg University Copenhagen, DK): Responses to the Alan Kurdi photographs and their remediation in digital spheres
• Kerry Philip Green, Jolyon Sykes, Cait McMahon  & Mark Pearson: Disturbing images: To publish or not to publish?
• Defne Bilir , Gemma Sunnergren, Brystin Ivey, Azmat Rasul, Stephen D McDowell & Barbara Robinson (Florida State University, USA): Picturing  Asia  and  Iran  during  the  Cold  War:  Critical  Discourse  Analysis  of  the  Image - word  Representations  of  David  Douglas  Duncan  and  the  Editorial  Coverage  of  Life Magazine in 1951 

• Yasemin İnceoglu, e Erbaysal Filibeli  (Galatasaray University, Turkey): Can journalism  be  a  peacekeeping  agent?  Obstacles  to the  implementation  of  peace  journalism
• Sevda Alankuş (Kadir Has University, Turkey) : A  call  for  new  ethics  and  epistemology  for  peace  journalism  through  the  case  of  Turkish media 
• Ece Algan (California State University, USA): When  peace  activism,  press  freedom  advocacy,  citizen and  professional  journalism  conflate: “News Watch Turkey” as peace journalism and activism
• Nazan Haydari (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey): Saturday  Mothers  of  Turkey:  Politics  of  Peace  Activism, Motherhood, and  Social  Media 
   
  
  

• Martin Oller Alonso (Universidad de las Américas, Ecuador) Rosa Berganza (King Juan Carlos University, Spain), Sallie Hughes (University of Miami, México) Jesús Arroyave (Universidad del Norte, Colombia) , Adriana Amado (National  University of Matanza,  Argentina), José Luis Benítez (Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, UCA, El Salvador) & Sonia Virginia Moreira (Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil): Journalists’ professional role conceptions in eight Ibero-American countries
• Andrew  Duffy (Wee  School  of  Communication  and  Information Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): Learners, producers and consumers: Intimations from an Asian media ecosystem
• Sergio Splendore (University of Milan, Italy) Luigi Curini: Does ideological proximity between citizens and journalists in Italy influence citizens’ trust in the news media?
• Marie-Isabell Lohmann (Österreichische Akademie  der  Wissenschaften  Vienna,  Austria): Does Western Journalism Still Provide Public Service? 

• Lucas Vaccaro Logan (University of Houston - Downtown): Policing Broken Ratchets: Information Policy and Criminal Enforcement of Digital Copyrights
• Rodrigo Cetina Presuel (CUNY - Queensborough Community College/ Complutense University of Madrid): Past -- Present and Future of European Copyright: Where are User’s rights?
• Mona Elswah (Cairo University): The Future of Movie Copyright Infringement in Egypt in the Netflix Era: A Descriptive Study
• Miguel Afonso Caetano (ISCTE-IUL): The file-sharer as a homo reciprocans: motives and rationales of Portuguese and Brazilian Internet users for the unauthorized sharing of copyrighted works

• Stuart R. Poyntz (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Michael Hoechsmann (Lakehead University, Canada) and Julian Sefton-Green (London School of Economics, UK): YouthSites: Public Policy and Discursive Formation in the Creative Arts Learning Sectors 
• Mari Pienimäki (University of Tampere, Finland) and Sirkku Kotilainen (University of Tampere, Finland): Ethical Aspects on Participation of Young Immigrants within Media Pedagogical Research
• Suvi Tuulia Törrönen (University of Tampere, Finland): Intersectional Approach and Media Ethnography in Youth Vocational Studies

• Dawn Wheatley (Dublin City University): Pressure to publish: the perceived structures of online news production.
• Genevieve Bosah (University of Leicester): Newsroom Practices – Emerging Technology in News Production and Social Factors influencing Journalist ic practice in Nigeria.
• Andrew Paul White (The University of Nottingham Ningbo China): Developing new business models for content creation in the Chinese creative industries. 

• Nihil Thomas Titus (Tata Institute of Social Sciences): Infrastructures and Democracies: Examining delays in the ‘re-development’ of Mumbai
• Namita Nagpal (GGSIPU), Gita Bamezai (Indian Institute of Mass Communication): Shaping Political Persona, Campaigns and Political Mobilization: Mapping Changing Elections Moorings in India in the Digital Age
• Okoth Fred Mudhai (Coventry University): Media Practitioners and Public Opinions on Interactive Radio in Kenya and Zambia
• Omolade Sanni (Lagos State University): Electorates’ Perception on use of Social Media as a Political Awareness Tool and Influence on Voting Patterns in 2015 Presidential Election in Nigeria 

• Elske van de Fliert (The University of Queensland, Australia): Why we need new models to evaluate (communication for) sustainable development.
• Sarah Cardey (University of Reading, UK) and Mario Acunzo (Food and Agriculture Organization, Italy): Evidence-driven research and practice in rural communication.
• Nancy Muturi (Kansas State University, USA), Tanda Kidd (Kansas State University, USA), Kendra Kattelmann (South Dakota State University, USA), Koushik Adhikari (Kansas State University, USA), Susan Zies (Ohio State University, USA) and Erika Lindshield (Kansas State University, USA): Participatory research in health communication: Challenges for measuring outcomes.
• Jessica Noske-Turner (RMIT University, Australia), Heather Horst (RMIT University, Australia) and Vipul Khosla (ABC International Development, Australia): You can't always sail in a straight line': Strengthening learning and evaluation capacity in innovation projects in the Pacific.
• Mohammad Ala-Uddin (Bowling Green State University, USA): “Transforming our world,” and the paradox of global partnership in SDGs: A conceptual framework for social justice and empowerment.

• Leonardo Alvares Vidigal (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG)
• Julian Henriques (Goldsmiths, University of London)
• Leonardo Alvares Vidigal (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG) 
• Brian D'Aquino (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG)

• Paschal Preston (Dublin City University, Ireland) and Henry Silke (University of Limerick, Ireland): Socio-Economic Inequalities and Communication Studies 
• Andrea Grisold (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria) and Henrik Theine (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria):  The Mediation of Economic Inequalities
• Núria Almiron (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain): Think Tanks and Policies Favouring Austerity and Inequalities.
• Wayne Hope (Auckland University of Technology, NZ): Coevalness, Time and New Avenues of Research on Media and Inequality.

• Jane Duncan (University of Johannesburg, South Africa): Putting political economy back into struggles against communications surveillance: lessons from South Africa
• Nour Halabi (University of Pennsylvania, United States): The Buy Egyptian Campaign: Political Consumption and Neoliberal Nationalism Elsayed Abdelrahman Ali (Egypt) The Relationship between Media Ownership and its Manipulation of Democratic Transformation Issues in Egypt
• Christian A. Chavez (University of Oregon, United States) and Ashley Cordes (University of Oregon, United States): An African City: Web Television and the Promise of Alternative Production

• Andreu Casero-Ripollés (University Jaume I of Castellón, Spain), Laura Alonso-Muñoz (University Jaume I of Castellón, Spain), Silvia Marcos-García (University Jaume I of Castellón, Spain): Old and new political parties in Twitter. The 2015 electoral campaign in Spain. New Politics on Twitter Political Discussions
• Frederic Guerrero-Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain): A comparison between right and left-wing Spanish political parties in the general elections of 2015
• Abbas Malek (Howard University, Washington, DC), Carolyn M. Byerly (Howard University, Washington, DC): Demographics, democracy and communication: Local-global connections in a dramatically changing U.S. landscape 
• Michael Oswald (University of Passau, Germany): Using the Cultural Memory for Political Purposes: (Re)mediating and Reframing History

• Dmitry L. Strovsky (Ural Federal University, Russia): Journalism as a professional notion: why does it look unclear in today's Russia?'
• Dmitrii Gavra (St-Petersburg State University, Russia): Professional and political values of journalists in Russia: metropolitan versus provincial communities
• Emilie Tinne Lehmann-Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): Challenged by the state and the Internet: Struggles for professionalism in Southeast Asian journalism
• Azeta Hatef (Pennsylvania State University, United States), Tanner Cooke (Pennsylvania State University, United States): From Radio Shariat to Afghan Star: Afghanistan's transitional media system

• Dr Mary C. Kennedy (Mount St Mary's University, USA): Social Media Use and the Catholic Church: Fostering Positive Relationships amidst "the Smell of the Sheep"
• Mr Sasha Scott (Queen Mary University, Britain): Algorithmic Absolution: The Case of Catholic Confessional Apps
• Dr Luis M. Sa Martino (Casper Libero University, Brazil) & Dr Angela C S Marques (University of Minas Gerais, Brazil): Framing religion in digital culture: Religious Identity in online Christian memes
• Prof. Maria Anikina (Lomonosov Moscow State University): Religious and spiritual foundations of youngsters’ self - identification in social media: a case of Russia

• Yung-Ho Im (Pusan National University, South Korea): Collective Memory and the Visual Construction of the Past: Representations of the Post-War Life in Korean Documentary Photographs                          
• Paul Frosh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Sandrine Boudana (Tel Aviv University) & Akiba Cohen (Tel Aviv University): Known for Being Known? Iconic Photographs and Collective Memory              
• Kristian Jeff Cortez Agustin (Hong Kong Baptist University): Imagining Southeast Asia through Participatory Media: Collective History-- Memory-- and Visual Culture       
• Ana Ta¡s Martins Portanova Barros (PPGCOM/UFRGS): Images of the past and future: the role of photography between memory and projection

• Celiana Azevedo (New University of Lisbon and CIMJ - Research Centre Media and Journalism, Portugal): The importance of media and memory in the construction of generational identity. 
• Hazel Collie (Birmingham City University, United Kingdom): Generation, Ethnicity and Memory: Extending the Audience of Audience Studies.
• Udo Göttlich, Luise Heinz, and Martin R. Herbers (Zeppelin Universität, Germany): Remembering television: Changes in audience practices’ in the course of mediatization. 

• Sander de Ridder (Ghent University, Belgium): Sexting and media culture: exploring young people’s moral imaginations. 
• Dasol Kim (University of Massachusetts, United States): Contextualizing ‘Lurking’:  The Case Study of Graduate Students’ Facebook Use. 
• Nan Feng, and Wenhong Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China): The body memory of Modernity: from photography to digital technology.
• Chenta Sung (Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom): Mediating Guanxi: Practices of Friendship Managements through Polymedia in Contemporary Taiwan.

• Marian Bredin (Brock University, Canada): Transmedia practices and Indigenous resurgent politics
• Sylvia Blake (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Rob McMahon (University of Alberta, Canada): Mapping funding for Aboriginal broadband infrastructure and services in rural/ remote and Northern communities in Canada
• Susan Forde (Griffith University, Australia): Media research and First Nations’ Australians: Partnering decolonizing methodologies with journalistic and historical research to produce emancipatory and participatory outcomes
• Chen-Ling Hung (National Taiwan University): Post-disaster reconstruction and collective memory of an indigenous village: Cross-sector cooperation in story-telling 
• Tomoko Kanayama (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Japan): Community Radio and Cultural Identity: Case Study of the Amami Islands of Japan

• M. C. Rasmin (Sri Lanka Development Journalist Forum), Padmasiri Wanigasundera (University of Peradeniya) and Kumari Wanigasundera (National Institute of Education, Sri Lanka): Participatory video initiatives in Sri Lanka: Understanding process and participation
• Sandra Ristovska (University of Pennsylvania, US): From Activism to Advocacy:  An Examination of the Role of Video in Human Rights Work
• Ana Lúcia Nunes de Sousa (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; Universidade Federal do Rio, Brazil): Video activism in Rio de Janeiro: digital practices to narrate social movements
• Amir Har-Gil (Netanya Academic College, Israel) and Inbal Ben-Asher Gitter (Sapir Academic College and Ben-Gurion University): How They Manipulated The Image of Our Community: Kibbutz & Film
• Marguerite Waller (University of California, Riverside, US): Future Memories: From cinema politico to social media

• Lucia Jimenez-Iglesias (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Chikezie Emmanuel Uzuegbunam (Nnamdi Azikiwe University)
• Bart Cammaerts (London School of Economics and Political Science) 
• Melanie Dulond  de  Rosnay  (Institute  des  Sciences  de  la  Communication, CNRS)
• Mariam Alkazemi (Gulf University for Science and Technology)
• Efrat Daskal (The Open University of Israel)
• Justin Schlosberg (Birkbeck, University of London)

• Phnom Kleechaya (Chulalongkorn University): Thai People’s Media Dependency during Flood Disaster.
• Emilia Rodrigues Araujo (University of Minho), and Catarina Sales Oliveira (University of Beira Interior): Time and Media.
• Raul Ferrer Conill (Karlstad University), and Charu Uppal (Karlstad University): Take us to your elders. Conflicts of communication in crisis environments in Ghana.
• Stuart Price (De Montfort University): States of Mediation: the 'ISIS Crisis' and Public Rhetoric.

• Chikezie Emmanuel Uzuegbunam (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria) and Henry Chigozie Duru (Orient Newspapers, Nigeria): Privacy Concerns on the Internet: A Study on Anonymity Effect Among Young Internet Users in Nigeria  
• David Elliot Berman (University of Pennsylvania, USA): Bot-ifying the Audience: The Political Economy of the Traffic Traffickers  
• Rianka Singh (University of Toronto, Canada): On Cyber Metaphors and Digital Activism
• Clement Y K So (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China), Lei Guo (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China), Oi Yan Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China), Ka Fai Cheung (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China), Ping Sun (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China): Using the h-index for Benchmarking Research Performance in the Field of Communication 

• Andreas M. Scheu (WWU Muenster): Mass media's influence on science policy. An explorative study of science policy decision-makers' mass media relations and willingness to adapt to media logic
• Rony Armon  & Alexandra Georgakopoulou-Nunes (King's College London): Memory snippets in science talks: Referencing scientific and public pasts 
• Maria Anikina (Lomonosov Moscow State University): Popularizing science in Russia: communication formats, media sources and journalistic practices
• Daniela Orr & Ayelet Baram-Tsabari (The Technion Institute of Technology): The Polio vaccination debate on Facebook: Science, values, and risks
• Oliver Quiring & Markus Schäfer (Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz): The role of media in social knowledge transfer on pharmacological cognitive enhancement: Journalist's and recipient's perspective on PCE
• Sabrina Heike Kessler (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): Public understanding of evidence in science communication: Effects of evidence frames on beliefs of recipients

• Jessica Moorman (University of Michigan, USA): If You’re Not Talking About Real Women, How Can You Be Talking To Real Women: The Use of Controlling Images of Black Women in Dating Advice Media Targeting Black Women
• Farah Azhar (University of Oregan, USA): Object of Affection – Online Matrimonial Websites in Pakistan
• Rachel Katz (University of Cambridge, UK): Finding Tinderella: American Discourses of Dating App Imagery
• Shiyuan Wang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong): “Leftover Woman” Narration: The Detour and Revival of Masculism  

• Kyounghee An (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea), Eun Hee Nha (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea), and Yun Liu (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea): Looking Back, Looking Forward: “Doing Gender” Discourse Implicit in School Uniform Advertisements: A Comparative Semiotic and Discourse Analysis on School Uniform Ads of South Korea, the UK and the US
• Anna Khlusova (King’s College, UK): Gender on the Move: International Student Mobility, Identity and Women in the 21st Century Digital Culture
• Pei-Wen Lee (Shih Hsin University, Taiwan): “Gender Equality, Are We There Yet”: Gender (Equality) Practices in Taiwanese University Students’ Interactions in Intimate Relationships 

• Mennat Allah Ehab (Cairo University), Mona Elswah (Cairo University), Nermine Mourad Aboulez (Cairo University), Zahraa Badr (Cairo University): Damned or Revamped: HIV/AIDS portrayal in Egyptian Movies
• Wai Sing Tsen (Hong Kong Baptist University): Drug Addiction and Social Control: the hegemonic meanings of drug addiction in media and drug rehabilitation service in Hong Kong
• SubbaRao M Gavaravarapu (National Institute of Nutrition), Sudershan R Vemula (National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research): What’s Cooking? – Exploring the connect and the disconnect in media portrayal and public perceptions on food safety associated health risks in India
• Kerry McCallum (University of Canberra), Kate Holland (University of Canberra): Negotiating risk and uncertainty: Women’s talk about alcohol in pregnancy

• Jan Miessler (Hong Kong Baptist Univ): Journalists and democratization: comparing anti-regime protests in China and Czechoslovakia in 1989
• B. Poyraz (Ankara Univ Turkey): The meaning of the past in Turkey: Dersim 38 (massacre) Tertelesi and Media
• P Al Bakri Devadason (Monash Univ Australia): The History of Malaysian Conflict Reporting of ‘Our Wars’
• S. Negi, (Panjab Univ, Chandigarh, India): Role of State Media during Emergency period and its impact 1975-1977

• Meihui Li (Fudan Univ, Shanghai): Trauma, memory and media discipline: local media construction of ‘Shanghai open as treaty port, 1949-2013
• Mine Gencel Bek (Turkey): When the past is not passed: representation and reception of Ulucanlar Prison Museum- This paper will not be presented because the government of Turkey has violated academic freedom by imposing a ban on foreign travel for Turkish academics.
• Christian Oggolder (Alpen-Adria Univ, Austria): Sites of memory- remembrance and commemoration on the web
• Christian Schwarzenegger (Augsburg Univ Germany) & Thomas Birkner (University Of Munster, Germany): Always remember to forget’: negative history and the role of commemoration and forgetting for future research on the history of the field

• Sulieman Salem Saleh (Cairo University and Taibah university): Mass Media Ethics: An Islamic Perspective
• Bushra Hameedur Rahman (Institute of Communication Studies, University of the Punjab, Pakistan): Ethics and Freedom in Mass Media: A systematic review of literature from libertarian and communitarian perspectives with reference to cartoon controversy
• Mohamed Kirat (Department of Mass Communication, Qatar University): The Islamic origins of Modern Corporate Social Responsibility
• Umar Jibrilu Gwandu (Department of Mass Communication, Bayero Univeristy, Kano): Islamic Ethics and Credible Global Journalism Practice: An Inductive Approach