[Commlist] CFP: Media Realities International Symposium

*Call for papers: Media* *Realities* *International Symposium, Jönköping 
University Sweden*
Organisers: Annette Hill (MKV, Jönköping University) and Hario 
Priambodho (Lund University)
Dates: 29-30 April 2026

Media realities face multilevel challenges. Realities play off varieties 
of representations, technologies and experiences. Media realities are 
/rooted/ in different professional traditions, e.g. film and television, 
radio and journalism, gaming, social and synthetic media. There are 
multiple /routes/ for realities, including archives and records, 
representations and remixes, virtual and artificial intelligence. These 
roots and routes for media realities take place in intense, contested 
settings regarding trust, truth and treatment of the real.
In a post referential framework, traditional knowledge systems 
associated with media and public service institutions face intense 
scrutiny by audiences and publics, politicians, NGOs and policy and 
community leaders. For example, engagement with witnesses and accounts 
of real events, or experts and explanations of scientific knowledge 
struggle to maintain referential integrity. Is reality played out?
This symposium addresses the multiplicities of realities within 
empirical and theoretical research across media and communications, 
digital technologies, culture and society. The combination of panels and 
roundtable discussions foster critical perspectives and methodological 
reflections on the performative and distortive aspects of media past, 
present and future. Key questions for this international symposium 
include 1) what are the various understandings and practices of media 
realities across industries, technologies, culture and society? 2) How 
are representations of realities constituted and contested in public, 
popular and mediated spheres?

We invite researchers to explore, analyse and understand the theme of 
media realities across the following connected areas of enquiry:

  * Professional practices for media and representations of realities;
  * Creating realities in film and media, radio and music, virtual
    realities and AI, gaming and live events, arts and museums;
  * Deep fakes and manipulation of realities in automated and artificial
    content:
  * Media and realities within social movements, mobilisation and activism;
  * Political realities in news, documentary, information,
    disinformation and polarization
  * Popular realities in fiction, drama and entertainment:
  * Varieties of engagement and experiences of media and realities;
  * Communication of realities within organisations and media, film  and
    cultural industries;
  * Realities and mobility, transnational communication and
    transportation of goods and services, humans and non humans
  * Global, local, transnational and decolonial media and realities

The programme for the symposium across two days includes keynote panels 
with invited speakers of senior and junior scholars, editors and 
publishers and open parallel panels. There will be a dedicated website, 
streaming podcasts of keynote speakers and selected papers from the 
symposium will be edited in international academic publications, in 
collaboration with Routledge and Intellect. The senior editors at 
Routledge and Intellect Press and open access peer reviewed academic 
journal /Media Theory/ will be present, chairing a workshop on impact, 
quality research and academic publishing for scientific books and journals.

International invited speakers include Julia Brockley (Intellect Press), 
Simon Dawes (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 
France), Natalie Foster (Routledge), Annette Hill (Jönköping University, 
Sweden), Tim Markham (Birkbeck, UK) Hario Priambodho (Lund University, 
Sweden) and Robert Willim (Lund University, Sweden).
Please submit an abstract of 300 words in English by *deadline* *Friday 
12 December 2025 *to Hario Priambodho ((hario.priambodho /at/ iko.lu.se)). For 
further information please consult our website 
_https://ju.se/mediarealitiesinternationalsymposium2026

There is a registration fee of 2800 SEK. The fee covers lunches, 
beverages and snacks over two days, and an end of symposium meal.

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