[Commlist] CfP: World Media Economics and Management Conference 2025

The WMEMC will be held in Poland (May 20-24, 2025). Please take a look 
at the Call for Papers here: https://wmemc2025.wdib.uw.edu.pl/


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Call for Paper Proposals
The World Media Economics and Management Conference 2025
Reinventing Management for Turbulent Times: Confronting the Next Wave of 
Digital Disruption
May 20-24, 2025
City host: Warsaw, Poland|



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 the discipline of 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:

    Economic and managerial implications of turbulent times for 
companies, organizations and strategies within and across media 
industries and related cultural, creative and communications sectors.
    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, media 
management and digital well-being.
    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.
    Challenges for media ethics and in media policy and regulatory 
environments, sectors and society, sustainability of media systems.
    Projects and initiatives related to media economics and management 
that are pertinent to innovation in media industries in turbulent times.
    Other questions and issues that challenge, extend and/or add to 
contemporary knowledge in the fields of media economic and management.


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