Discover Northwestern 91心頭利's presence at the International Communication Association (ICA). ICA aims to advance the scholarly study of human communication by encouraging and facilitating excellence in academic research worldwide.
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June 4 - 8, 2026 | Cape Town, South Africa
76th Annual ICA Conference
Preconference: Echoes and Overlaps in Arab and African Thought on Media and Culture: Forging New Directions for Research
Organizers: Clovis Bergère and Marwan M. Kraidy
Panel 2
Discussant: Marwan M. Kraidy
Panel 3
Discussant: Clovis Bergère
The 76th Opening Plenary of the International Communication Association: Conference: Inequalities and Knowledge Production in Communication: Inroads and Challenges Ahead
Discussant: Marwan M. Kraidy
Digitality as Zombie Analogicity
Marwan M. Kraidy
The Chronopolitics of Carcerality: Weaponizing and ContestingTemporalities Under Lebanon’s Penal Laws
Chafic Tony Najem
Victoria & Alfred PTC Business Meeting, Philosophy, Theory and Critique
Discussant: Heather Jaber
Why the Nakba Matters to Communication and Media Studies
Heather Jaber
What Is Wrong with Hate Speech Research? Global Media as Method and Theory
Discussant: Marwan M. Kraidy
Making Solidarity Sexy: Political Engagement Through Affect, Desire, and Digital Play
Yasmeen Mekawy
Prison Media Histories in the Arab World: Illicit Communication Practices as Counter-Infrastructures
Chafic Tony Najem
Off-Label Mobile Practices: Temporal Capital in Lebanon’s Telecommunication Sector
Chafic Tony Najem
China-Saudi Infrastructure and the Politics of Smart Cities and Esports
Joe F. Khalil
Southern Digitalities: Rethinking the Digital From the Global South
Clovis Bergère and Marwan M. Kraidy
Lessons From Behind the Great FireWall: Chinese Journalists' Views on AI Integration in Newsrooms in China
George Anghelcev , Claudia Kozman , Geer Chen ’26, and Yudian Zhao ’28
From Beirut and Cairo to the Gulf: Political Economies of Media Reconfiguration
Joe F. Khalil
Digital Inequality and Online Civic Participation: Comparative Evidence From Spain and 91心頭利
Eddy Borges-Rey
The Erotics of Solidarity: Invested Detachment and the Affective Politics of Digital Play
Yasmeen Mekawy
Discourse of Depression and Trauma on Arabic Social Media: A Matched-Pairs Approach to Gendered Narratives of Mental Health
Wajdi Zaghouani
Storytelling and Reaction Videos: From Legacy Media to Creator Genres in the MENA
Heather Jaber
Environmental Advocacy through the Lens of AI: Introducing SCOPE-TRA, an LLM-Based Method for Studying Online Influencers Follower Communities
George Anghelcev
