[Commlist] cfp World Media Economics and Management Conference 2025

World Media Economics and Management Conference 2025
Reinventing Management for Turbulent Times: Confronting the Next Wave of 
Digital Disruption
May 20-24, 2025
University of Warsaw, Poland

Call for Paper Proposals
Submission system opens on September 1, 2024
www.wmemc2025.wdib.uw.edu.pl
Background Media economics and management studies have widely reacted to 
transformational change in media industries both in the impact on 
consumers and the media companies, organizations and business. There is 
now a considerable body of published research examining- the dynamic 
digital media landscape and industry activities to adapt in social, 
economic, environmental and organizational terms. Regardless of 
geographical location, media industries continuously refine strategies 
and practices of adaptation to cope with the so-called the shift between 
the Fourth and Fifth Industrial Revolutions. More evidence and deeper 
understanding is needed regarding causes, drivers, and implications, 
including characteristic path dependencies that affect and may be 
affected by media consumers with ramifications for dependencies in 
future generations. As we deal with the multifaced uncertainties of 
today’s media environment, deeper understandings are especially needed 
to clarify a complex and turbulent context characterized by climate 
change, military conflicts, misinformation and propaganda, cybercrime, 
AI, populism, an erosion of democratic values, perforations of media 
ethics and imbalances in the plurality of voices.

Media management and economics in turbulent times is a timely focus for 
the 2025 conference. The WMEMC community will investigate, discuss and 
work to develop insights on contemporary conditions and emerging 
challenges in the media environment for media industries and 
organizations, business and revenue, citizens and societies, devices and 
technologies, politics and policies. Putting media management and 
economics research at the center of a troubled context invites critical 
interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary analytical perspectives on the 
influences and implications of pressing contemporary challenges that 
will shape and reshape the future.

Focus and Objectives
The focus for the WMEMC 2025 centers on examining, analyzing and 
developing insights to deepen understandings of the rapid pace and 
complexity of change in media industries to both advance theory in the 
field and support practical efforts to develop media in the many aspects 
of key interest. These certainly include financial, structural, 
technological, cultural, societal, political and ideological aspects of 
media and media-society relations. We seek answers to questions of 
fundamental importance for understanding what and how media industries, 
organizations, and professionals need to prepare for the future and how 
both professional practice and media research and education must adapt 
to be useful.

The Purview of Research
WMEMC is a diverse and inclusive community of researchers and 
practitioners from around the world. We welcome submissions on the 
conference theme from a wide range of approaches and themes from all 
parts of the world. Past conferences have welcomed participants from the 
Americas, Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe and many countries in Global 
South and north.
We are keen to invite interdisciplinary and diverse approaches to 
answering questions about the effects of turbulence on economic and 
managerial aspects of media. We welcome policy makers, experts and 
academics from every discipline and  all media industries with cognate 
interest to join the discussion. We believe multidisciplinary and cross 
disciplinary exploration is crucial for innovation in theory and 
practice. We therefore invite paper proposals addressing the following 
areas in particular, and are open to other aspects as well:

1.	Economic and managerial implications of turbulent times for 
companies, organizations and strategies within and across media 
industries and related cultural, creative and communications sectors.
2.	Implications of technological developments in AI, AR/VR/MR, 
algorithms, data and metadata, platformization and networked 
organizations, smart zones and consequences for the media economy, 
sustainability, media management and digital well-being.
3.	Changes in the profile of media users and audiences, in user 
expectations, and implications related to patterns across generations: 
Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, Generation Z, and Generation Alpha.
4.	Challenges for media ethics and in media policy and regulatory 
environments, sectors and society.
5.	Projects and initiatives related to media economics and management 
that are pertinent to innovation in media industries in turbulent times.
6.	Other questions and issues that challenge, extend and/or add to 
contemporary knowledge in the fields of media economic and management.

Conference Schedule
September 1, 2024	Submission system opens
October 30, 2024	 Submission system closes
November 15, 2024	Notifications of acceptance
December 1, 2024	Registration and payment system opens (Early Bird, in Euro)
March 7, 2025 		Early Bird closes (12:00, noon, London time)

March 8, 2025		Regular Bird (Euro)
April 15, 2025		Regular Bird closes (12:00, noon, London time)
April 16, 2025		Late Bird opens (Euro)
May 15, 2025		Late Bird closes (12:00, noon, London time)
May 20-23, 2025	WMEMC
May 24, 2025		Post-WMEMC social activity

How to Submit?
Abstracts and fee payments should be submitted via our WMEMC 2025 
platform: https://wmemc2025.wdib.uw.edu.pl/how-to-participate/
All abstracts will be reviewed prior to acceptance and published in an 
online book of abstracts. Additionally, for those who are interested we 
aim to negotiate publishing opportunities for selected fully developed 
papers with respected journals. Please fill out the form by choosing the 
type of submission and adapt submission to these criteria:

1. Individual paper:
o	choose the theme for your paper from the list (from 1 to 6);
o	add your data: name, affiliation, contacts (e-mail), short bio (100 words)
o	and personal data of your co-author(s): names, affiliations, contacts 
(e-mail), short bios (100 words)
o	send a paper proposal between 350 and 600 words consisting of a short 
theoretical background, goals and research questions, methodology, 
assumed results, theoretical and practical contribution and three of the 
most important references
o	one author may submit up to two papers
o	co-authored papers are welcome
o	in case of any difficulties, please get in touch with us via the 
website or e-mail at (wmemc2025 /at/ wdib.uw.edu.pl)
 2. Panel session
o	proposals, from a single organizer, for a panel session (consisting of 
a maximum of four presentations) are welcome
o	choose the theme for your paper from the list (from 1 to 6);
o	add your data: name, affiliation, contacts (e-mail), short bio (100 words)
o	add personal data of your guests: names, affiliations, contacts 
(e-mail), short bios (100 words)
o	send a paper between 700 and 1000 words consisting of a short 
introduction with the session’s reasoning, goals and description of each 
invited paper (with theoretical background, goals and research 
questions, methodology, assumed results, theoretical and practical 
contribution and three the most important references)
o	in case of any difficulties, please get in touch with us via the 
website or e-mail at (wmemc2025 /at/ wdib.uw.edu.pl)
 3. Poster:
o	choose the theme for your poster from the list (from 1 to 6);
o	add your data: name, affiliation, contacts (e-mail), short bio (100 words)
o	and personal data of your co-author(s): names, affiliations, contacts 
(e-mail), short bios (100 words)
o	send a poster’s description between 200 and 400 words consisting of a 
short theoretical background, goals and research questions, methodology, 
assumed results, theoretical and practical contribution and three of the 
most important references
o	one author may submit up to one poster
o	co-authored posters are not allowed
o	in case of any difficulties, please get in touch with us via the 
website or e-mail at (wmemc2025 /at/ wdib.uw.edu.pl)

Dear Participants, Friends and Colleagues! If you have any questions, 
please contact the Organizers directly via website: 
https://wmemc2025.wdib.uw.edu.pl/contact/  or Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska 
((a.ginalska /at/ uw.edu.pl)).



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