[Air-L] ICA 2026 Preconference, 3 June, Global Disruptions: Platforms, Power and Contested Communication

[sahana udupa]

Dear all

Center for Digital Dignity, the UNC Center for Information, Technology, and
Public Life, and Center for Information Integrity in Africa — together with
an amazing global team of organizers — are hosting a preconference at ICA
2026 in South Africa:
https://www.fordigitaldignity.com/international-communication-association-2026-preconference/


It will take place on June 3rd, 2026 at the Lanzerac Hotel in Stellenbosch,
South Africa.

*Global Disruptions: Platforms, Power, and Contested Communication *is an
in-person, full-day preconference that will bring scholars together to
understand the complicated role of media and communication in disrupting
states and societies around the world. We will have four tracks of
scholarship, and our objective is to connect a community of scholars from
across the communication subfields to explicitly analyze the relationship
between media, communication, political institutions, and social and
political movements, as well as media and communication's role in
democratic decay.



*Submission Deadline: February 6th, 2026. Submission site: *
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0AuFGBkh6CZO23qF6YUX8QEBw310NdJWn3fw-paqO68gX4A/viewform



Best wishes

Sahana


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Sahana Udupa, PhD | Professor of Media Anthropology | LMU Munich

BKC Faculty Associate, Harvard University