This conference seeks conceptual papers that revisit an array of concepts:

• Concepts that transcend mass communication, but nonetheless have particular bearing on the field; for example, concepts such as agency, autonomy, community, culture, democracy, hegemony, identity, interaction, memory, participation, representation, or public.

• Concepts that are central to mass communication, including the concept of mass communication itself. Other concepts might include audience, channel, feedback, framing, information-seeking, media, or transmission.

• Concepts that are specific to areas within mass communication. For example, health equity, information subsidy, photojournalism, public diplomacy, or public interest.