Future Communications Conference 2024: “Echoes and Amplifications: Memory, Media, and Marginality”

The 8th Annual Future Communications graduate student conference invites master’s and doctoral students to join us in an afternoon of dynamic discussions, creative presentations, and interdisciplinary exchange. This year’s theme, "Echoes and Amplifications: Memory, Media, and Marginality," explores the ways in which media and communication practices intersect with memory, power, and marginality.

We encourage broad interpretations of this theme, welcoming investigations into all aspects of culture, media, politics, policy, technology, and creative practice. We are particularly interested in how media both reflects and reshapes narratives of marginalized communities, how stories from the margins are preserved or erased, and how new technologies are amplifying or silencing certain voices.

Potential topics might include, but are not limited to:

• The role of archives and memory in community storytelling.
• Media representation of race, gender, and sexuality.
• Digital platforms and their impact on marginalized voices.
• Power dynamics in media production and distribution.
• Decolonial media practices and the decolonization of knowledge.
• Creative and activist uses of media to reclaim erased histories.
• The interplay of technology, policy, and marginalization.
• Intersectional approaches to media studies.
• Environmental storytelling and marginalized communities.
• Critical approaches to media invisibility, presence, and power.