Seventh International Conference on Communication & Media Studies

  • 2022 Special Focus—Democratic Disorder: Disinformation, the Media and Crisis in a Time of Change
  • 25-26 August 2022
  • Hosted by: NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland

2022 Special Focus—Democratic Disorder: Disinformation, the Media and Crisis in a Time of Change

For over 30 years, Common Ground has been invested in developing technologies that seek to break down barriers of access in scholarly communication. In each phase, we’ve built media platforms to support spaces for interdisciplinary dialogue, before such approaches were in vogue; connected international voices, when disciplines were too often isolated in national silos; and supported an agenda of access and equality, by offering pathways and opportunities for diverse voices.
We now propose another kind of intervention -- to build a scholarly communication infrastructure for a blended future.
Our blended model seeks to transcend physical boundaries by offering a platform to extend in-person conference content online, while ensuring online-only delegates are afforded equal participatory and experiential spaces within the platform. At the same time, the model offers participants a legacy resource to which they can return in the Event application, with access to a social space in our Community application where fellow participants can keep connected long after the conference ends.

Research Network Chairs

Dr. Mario Minichiello

Dr. Mario Minichiello

School of Design, Communication and Information Technology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

(English)

Dr. Jesús Miguel Flores Vivar

Dr. Jesús Miguel Flores Vivar

Profesor Titular, Departamento de Periodismo y Nuevos Medios, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España

(Spanish)

Local Conference Chair

Tom Felle

Tom Felle

Head of Journalism and Communication Studies, NUI Galway, Ireland

Local Host Committee

Uinsionn MacDubhghaill

Uinsionn MacDubhghaill

NUI Galway, Ireland

Fiona McGarry

Fiona McGarry

NUI Galway, Ireland

Kelly Fincham

Kelly Fincham

NUI Galway, Ireland

Conall Ó Fátharta

Conall Ó Fátharta

NUI Galway, Ireland

Plenary Speakers

The Seventh International Conference on Communication & Media Studies featured plenary speakers by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.

Gavan Titley

Gavan Titley

Senior Lecturer, Department of Media Studies, Maynooth University, Ireland

Anxiety and Noise in Public Culture: Thinking Free Speech and Abundant Communication

Emily Bell

Emily Bell

Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School, USA

Reporting on the Information War in the U.S.

Martha Molina

Martha Molina

Profesora, Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

(Spanish)

Retos de los medios digitales en la era de la desinformación

Francesca Sobande

Francesca Sobande

Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Studies, Cardiff University, UK

Consuming Crisis: Commodifying Care and COVID-19

Mario Minichiello

Mario Minichiello

Director of FASTlab, Cambridge, UK and Honorary Professor, University of Newcastle, Australia

Chaos Democratic Disorder: Disinformation, the Media and Crisis in a Time of Change

Emerging Scholar Awardees

For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. The 2022 Emerging Scholar Award recipients are as follows:

Michael Lechuga

Michael Lechuga

Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico

Es​sien Oku Essien

Es​sien Oku Essien

University of Cross River State, Nigeria

Yi He

Yi He

Brandeis University

Neda Jahanbani

Neda Jahanbani

New York University, USA

Amoolya Rajappa

Amoolya Rajappa

Florida State University, USA

Urwa Tariq, Ph.D.

Urwa Tariq, Ph.D.

United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates

Jenna Bluedorn

Jenna Bluedorn

Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA

Leila Kubesch

Leila Kubesch

University of Cincinnati

Ana Fuentes

Ana Fuentes

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Seán Hickey

Seán Hickey

Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Conference Partner