Call for extended abstracts: Media and Communication in Global Latinidades, International Communication Association VIRTUAL Preconference, 11 June 2025. Deadline: 15 February 2025.
This preconference examines the production, distribution, and consumption of media and communication in global Latinidades. It follows up to the six preconferences held in the context of the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Annual Meetings of the International Communication Association – on “Digital Journalism in Latin America” in 2019, on “Digital Media in Latin America” in 2020, on “Digital Media in Latinx and Latin America” in 2021, and on “Media & Communication in Global Latinidades” in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
In this seventh edition, we continue to center on media and communication practices of the Latinx and Latin American experience globally. Despite its long history, research about Latinx and Latin American topics — largely made by Latinx and Latin American researchers worldwide — tends to be underrepresented in communication scholarship in general and in ICA in particular. As such, the preconference will address the theme of media and communication in local, global, and/or transnational Latinx and Latin American experiences, such as those related to access issues, practices, representations, markets, technologies, and more.
Organizers think it is important to provide a platform that incentivizes community, the flow of information and scholarship, and equitable participation across the globe. As such, and in recognition of the often unsurmountable structural differences that exist among different national contexts concerning resources for traveling to international academic conferences, organizers will again hold the edition of the preconference virtually with a social in-person component that will be determined in due time.
Media and communication issues have increasingly featured more prominently in the global experiences of Latinidad. Thus, it is critical to inquire into the experience of these communities, which tend to be understudied and underrepresented, and to examine whether the specificity of Latinx and Latin American experiences might entail differences from those of other communities.
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