The is a leading global network of communication scholars, practitioners, and students. Each year, ICA's Annual Conference convenes thousands of participants from around the world to exchange research findings, explore emerging trends, and foster collaboration in the field of communication.
Organizers: Clovis Bergère, Marwan Kraidy, and Nabil Echchaibi
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: University of Cape Town
Register by May 27, 2026 (Doha time)
Time: 6:00 – 7:15 p.m.
Location: Auditorium 1 (CTICC1, Level 1)
Temporality, Mediation, and Construction of Meaning
Digitality as Zombie Analogicity
Marwan M. Kraidy
The Chronopolitics of Carcerality: Weaponizing and Contesting Temporalities under Lebanon’s Penal Laws
Chafic Tony Najem
Time: 12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Location: Westin HE Victoria & Alfred (Westin, Harbour Edge Level)
What Is Wrong With Hate Speech Research? Global Media as Method and Theory
Marwan M. Kraidy
Time: 9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Location: C1 1.63 (CTICC1, Level 1)
Governing Communication: Surveillance, Censorship, and Counterpower
Prison Media Histories in the Arab World: Illicit Communication Practices as Counter-Infrastructures
Chafic Tony Najem
Time: 12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Location: C1 1.44 (CTICC1, Lev 1)
Mobile Inequalities Among Marginalized Communities
Off-Label Mobile Practices: Temporal Capital in Lebanon’s Telecommunication Sector
Chafic Tony Najem
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Location: C1 1.63 (CTICC1, Lev 1)
Media, Poverty, Exclusion and the Limits of Connectivity
Southern Digitalities: Rethinking the Digital from the Global South
Clovis Bergère and Marwan M. Kraidy
Time: 10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Location: C1 1.43 (CTICC1, Lev 1)
