CALL FOR PAPERS – Global Disruptions: Platforms, Power, and Contested Communication

Global Disruptions: Platforms, Power, and Contested Communication is an in-person, full-day preconference that will bring scholars together to understand the complicated role of media and communication in disrupting states and societies around the world.

Hosted by the Center for Digital Dignity, together with CINIA and the UNC Center for Information, Technology and Public Life, the conference will be organised around 4 tracks of scholarship:

Track 1: Hate Speech, Disinformation, and Extreme Speech
Track 2: Social Movements and Online Organizing
Track 3: Authoritarianism and Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Contexts
Track 4: Neo-Colonial Platform Capture

We invite presentation proposals of between 800-1200 words to any of the four tracks. We are open to original research, theoretical, or methodological papers, in addition to work that centers practice, including a focus on pedagogy, organizing, advocacy, outreach, or policy interventions.

Registration is free. Proposal submission deadline is 06 February 2026.

For more information and to submit a proposal, click here.