Media sociology has long been a highly diverse field spanning many topics, methodologies, and units of analysis. It encompasses all forms of mass-mediated communication and expression, including news media, entertainment media, as well as digital (“new”) and non-digital (“old”) media. Outstanding research exists within the different subfields both within and beyond the discipline of sociology. Our aim is to create dialogue among these disparate yet complementary traditions.
This preconference is held one day before the start of the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in NYC.
This symposium addresses the multiplicities of realities within empirical and theoretical research across media and communications, digital technologies, culture and society.
We are pleased to announce a two-day international conference on April 22-23, 2026 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and at Uppsala University dedicated to examining the rapidly evolving landscape of comics.
We invite all researchers and professionals to submit work that explores approaches to, and analyses of, media and creative industries innovation in ways that can inform future practice and policy.