WMEMC 2025: “Reinventing Management for Turbulent Times: Confronting the Next Waves of Digital Disruption” Call for Papers has arrived!

Media management and economics in turbulent times is a timely focus for the 2025 conference. The WMEMC community will investigate, discuss and work to develop insights on contemporary conditions and emerging challenges in the media environment for media industries and organizations, business and revenue, citizens and societies, devices and technologies, politics and policies. Putting the discipline of media management and economics research at the center of a troubled context invites critical interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary analytical perspectives on the influences and implications of pressing contemporary challenges that will shape and reshape the future.

We are keen to invite diverse approaches to answering questions about the effects of turbulence on economic and managerial aspects of media. We welcome policy makers, experts and academics from every discipline and  all media industries with cognate interest to join the discussion. We believe multidisciplinary and cross disciplinary exploration is crucial for innovation in theory and practice. We therefore invite paper proposals addressing the following areas in particular, and are open to other aspects as well:

1. Economic and managerial implications of turbulent times for companies, organizations and strategies within and across media industries and related cultural, creative and communications sectors.

• Implications of technological developments in AI, AR/VR/MR, algorithms, data and metadata, platformization and networked organizations, smart zones and consequences for the media economy, media management and digital well-being.

• Changes in the profile of media users and audiences, in user expectations, and implications related to patterns across generations: Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, Generation Z, and Generation Alpha.

• Challenges for media ethics and in media policy and regulatory environments, sectors and society.

• Projects and initiatives related to media economics and management that are pertinent to innovation in media industries in turbulent times.

• Other questions and issues that challenge, extend and/or add to contemporary knowledge in the fields of media economic and management.

Additionally, we are happy to inform that we are working on a special issues in a prominent journals dedicated to the conference’s topic. Stay tuned for more information!