We are pleased to announce that Lilie Chouliaraki's WRONGED is the Co-Winner of the 2025 Best Book Award from the Philosophy, Theory, and Critique Division of the International Communication Association. buff.ly/KkDTP85 @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social @icaptc.bsky.social

#ICA25 Award Season updates continue: Congratulations to Hafsa Maqsood from the University of Calgary for winning the 2025 Decolonial Scholarship Award for the paper "Gendered Orientalism and Israeli Media" 👏👏

Pin the #ica25 feed to keep up on conference posts this week! bsky.app/profile/did:...

The #ICA25 conference is also award season and PTC is happy to announce the joint winners of the C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy: Victor Pickard from the Annenberg School for Communication at U Penn and Pablo Boczkowski from Northwestern U 👏👏

📱 The #ICA25 mobile app is here! Plan your schedule, explore sessions, connect with fellow attendees, and stay updated — all from your phone. Download now and get conference-ready! Check your inboxes for the email invitation.

Headed out to #ICA25 next week! I’ll mostly be there for our incredible CCSN precon, but will make a brief appearance at the main con too. Can’t wait to see y’all there! And, as always, happy to chat w other folks studying creators/feminist media/disability/digital labor. ✨💕

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Just 3 weeks away! We can’t wait to welcome you to the Debating Creator Culture Pre-Conference at ICA 2025 🎉 🗓️ June 11 | 📍University of Colorado Boulder 🧭 Final Schedule: drive.google.com/file/d/1t2-g...

Join us next week at #ICA25 for our preconference, Echoes and Overlaps in Arab and African Thought on Media and Culture. 🗓 Wednesday, June 11 🕘 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 📍CASE E390, @cuboulder.info View the full program and register here: bit.ly/3SwP3GY

We have preconference hashtags! If you’re attending our “Debating Creator Culture” ICA-precon, you can (1) Tag us! and/or (2) HASHtag us at: #DebatingCreatorCulture #ICA25 Let’s see the selfies, snapshots and live threads this Wednesday June 11th! 🎉

I'll present parasocial media, co-authored with @landrous.bsky.social, and talk about the "idols you can meet" media format and the infrastructuring of intimate yet asymmetrical relationships for a @icaptc.bsky.social panel (full paper: doi.org/10.1177/2976... out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social)

It's officially out now already! Edited by Linda Steiner and yours truly. We are so happy to share the news. Check it out: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/we-can-do-be... @icahdq.bsky.social @icaptc.bsky.social @aejmc-csw.bsky.social @aejmc.bsky.social @aejmcresearch.bsky.social @iamcr.org #comsky

5 more days to submit to the @icagames.bsky.social precon on toxic masculinity! All disciplines are welcome because this is a problem that affects all of us, not just the games industry. Join us :) icagames.org/2025preconfe...

🚀 We’re here! Welcome to the official Bluesky account for 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 —where science meets cutting-edge journalism. Stay tuned for updates on groundbreaking research, insightful interviews, and calls for papers. Follow us for the latest discoveries and their impact on the digital media world!

The next article from Volume 39, Issue 1 is titled "Seven Theses About the So-Called Culture War(s) (Or Some Fragmentary Notes on ‘Cancel Culture’)," written by Sean Phelan. It is an open access article, and we invite you to read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

PTC's Best Book Award is open for nominations until March 15th. The award recognizes the outstanding work of scholars in the field, with a publication date between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2024. See here for more info: www.icahdq.org/blogpost/151...

PTC Best Book Award Call for Nominations - International Communication Association

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PTC's Best Dissertation Award is open for nominations until March 15th. The award is given to an outstanding PhD dissertation completed between January 2023 and December 2024 on themes central to the mission of PTC. Find more info here: www.icahdq.org/blogpost/151...

PTC Best Dissertation Award Call for Nominations - International Communication Association

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Just a few days left to submit nominations for the Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy (closes 28 February). Find more information here: link.icahdq.org/discussion/e...

The deadline for submitting to #ICA25 is the 1st of November. If you're thinking about Philosophy, Theory & Critique as a home for your research, consider joining one of our info sessions to learn more. Link to register in the comments.