The 11th International Conference on Communication and Media Studies will take place on October 1 and 2, 2026, in Singapore and online, with a special focus on “The Image as Advocate: Shaping Cultural Conversations”, which will examine how visual media act not merely as reflections of the world but as active agents in it.
The conference is the annual meeting of the Communication and Media Studies Research Network, an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of the role of the media and communications in society. The conference will be held in partnership with the Network’s host institution, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), a national public research university in Singapore and the second oldest autonomous university in the country.
This year’s conference will be held alongside the annual meeting of The Image Research Network, highlighting intersecting concerns across media cultures, visual practices, communication technologies, and cultural meaning-making.
The Network is inviting proposals that explore how media shape and are shaped by social, cultural, political, and technological contexts. Alongside this special focus, it is also seeking proposals addressing the Network’s annual themes of Media Cultures; Media Theory; Media Technologies; Media Business; and Media Literacies.
The conference is being organised as a hybrid knowledge experience, bringing in-person and online participation together in a single integrated environment.
The Network is also asking presenters to develop their work for possible publication in “The Journal of Communication and Media Studies”, or in the “Communication and Media Studies Book Imprint”, both of which offer options for traditional and Open Access publication.
