About us

The conference theme, 'From mainstream to margins: Capturing developing practices, publics and persuasion,' explores the evolving media landscape. It addresses media developments, the changing situation of institutions and practitioners, evolving publics, media persuasion (including disinformation and propaganda), and the context of hybrid media systems within global and domestic politics, economics, and policy.

Important Dates

Thu, Mar 26, 2026
Final submission deadline

Call For Paper

Cultural Studies
Communication
Media studies
Film, television and screen
Media pasts, presents and futures
Media developments within, and outside, the nation
Technologies and evolving cultural practices/content
Cultural work, professional cultures and (the value of) human ‘creativity’
Media presence and evolution in the mainstream and margins
Publics / audiences and everyday interactions
Representations and issues, crises and conflicts
Media hybridity and the interconnectedness of media forms and flows
Cultural policy, regulation and change
Mediated interactions between institutions, groups and individuals

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Categories include Full papers (max 250 words), Practice as research, and Panel proposals (short description/rationale 200 words + 3-4 abstracts of 150-200 words). Submissions are via EasyChair.

Committee

Program Committee

Julian Matthews

Tim Neff

Victoria O'Meara

Bernard Forchtner

Organizing Committee

Julian Matthews

Chair

Leicester team