Call For Papers

Media Technologies 

In today's age of digital communication, media technologies have become nearly a part of everyday human life. Mediating technology continues to shape humanity as a whole. Consequently, technology professionals play a critical role in transforming the way we live and even what it means to be human through the products they create. This has the potential to provide numerous benefits, but it also necessitates ethical considerations to ensure that we establish a welfare society. 

Media Technologies refer to creating multiple innovative platforms to provide efficiencies to services delivered in the media sector. 'Media' in its broadest sense covers a wide range of sub-sectors, including Print Media, Broadcast Media, Digital Media, Social Media, Advertising, and Corporate Communications. The 'technology' platforms are developed to improve the efficiency of services delivered within each media sub-sector.

Technology businesses have radically altered society, and not all of these developments have been positive or beneficial for all. Multiple crises are currently afflicting the world, including democracy disintegration, inequality, and health pandemics. This is not by chance; humans created the structures that allow for such crises. Thus, rather than dreaming of a brighter future, we must take progressive steps to make it a reality.

Such issues must be addressed and resolved urgently. Our goal is to inspire action and encourage high-impact and scalable solutions to specific media technology contexts. These efforts should improve media technologies' capability and make them more effective. Media Meet 2022 aims to bring together stakeholders from the media industry and academia to understand the implications better and develop solutions and ways to make the media industries more resilient. 

While technology has impacted all aspects of our lives, whether it’s at work or home, the theme of the Media Meet 2022 revolves around ‘Media Technologies.’ Considering the broad nature of technology and the continuous stream of updates, mediating technology continues to shape our daily lives in countless ways. It is essential to find appropriate theoretical frameworks and practical strategies to study them. Media Meet 2022 seeks to publish original manuscripts that address open innovation, adoption, and challenges relating to media technologies. In doing so, the conference aims to explore some of the sub-themes by bringing academicians, scholars, practitioners, industry experts, and members from other backgrounds whose lives and works are at the interface of media technology. 

Applicants are invited to consider (but not limited to) the following sub-themes: 

• Media Ownership

1. Media and Big Data - Surveillance Capitalism

2. Private Billionaires and Ownership of Free Speech

3. Affordable Internet - Vested Capital and Political Interests

4. Impact on Media independence, freedom and media pluralism

5. Media Ownership and Agenda control 

• Journalism, Technology and Open-source Intelligence 

1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Newsrooms

2. Fake News and Technology

3. Social Media Algorithms and hate speech

4. Segregating Deepfakes from reality, a journalistic responsibility

5. No-code data Journalism, making numbers easy: Pandemic reporting perspective

6. Technology shaping the future of investigative journalism: Bellingcat

7. Investigative journalism leveraging Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) tools 

• Technology in Political Sphere

1. Internet Governance

2. Polarization and use of technology in political campaigns

3. Digital Citizenship

4. Internet and the political participation

• Media and Virtual Reality (VR): 

1. Application of VR technology; Learnings and challenges

2. Augmented and Virtual Reality: Pedagogical Perspectives

3. Immersive Virtual Reality 

• Information Warfare and Propaganda

1. Cyber-electronic warfare

2. Psychological warfare-propaganda

3. Social media as information Warfare

4. Eliminating bots for a safer digital world

• Media Economics in Developing Technological Spheres

1. Journalism as content/product

2. Surviving in the subscription world

3. News organization and the hegemony of tech giants i.e., Google, Meta, etc.

• Technology for Social Change

1. Technology empowering disenfranchised communities

2. Battling information divide during the Pandemic

3. Citizen Journalism and New Media

4. Media Technology as a tool to promote Financial Literacy, UPI.

5. Use of Media Technology to bridge special needs

• Media Technology and Pedagogy, Children and Gender

1. Online Education Apps and Meetings

2. GenZ, Mobile technology and Attention-span

3. Privacy, Online Abuse, E-trafficking

4. Digital Media and Children

5. Cyber child pornography

6. Gender, Technology and development

• Technology and Culture

1. Computer-mediated relationships and Online Dating

2. Internet Communities - Video Gaming, Discord Rooms

3. Using immersive reality for the future of videos

4. Technology in cinema influencing culture