Mediated Communication, Public Opinion & Society Section

The Mediated Communication, Public Opinion, and Society Section fosters research emphasising socio-psychological and cognitive-psychological processes at work in the production and consumption of standardised media content, mediated interpersonal communication by mobile phone or chat and interactive media such as computer games and robots. It places considerable emphasis on phenomenological approaches to the media and the role of communication and media in families and households.

Chair: Susanne Eichner (Aarhus University, Denmark) [contact]
Vice-chair: Franziska Thiele (University of Greifswald, Germany) [contact]


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Mediated Communication, Public Opinion & Society Section - Call for Proposals 2025

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The Mediated Communication, Public Opinion and Society (MPS) Section invites the submission of abstracts for IAMCR 2025, which will be held in Singapore from 13 to 17 July 2025, hosted by the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University. The deadline for submission is 7 February 2025, at 23h59 UTC.

IAMCR 2021 call for proposals - Deadline 9 February

IAMCR's Mediated Communication, Public Opinion & Society Section invites the submission of proposals for single papers and multi-paper sessions (the online conference equivalent of a panel in a face to face conference) for IAMCR 2021, which will be held online from 11 to 15 July, with a regional hub in Nairobi, Kenya. The deadline for submission is 9 February 2021, at 23.59 UTC.

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