MARMARA UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION

INTERNATIONAL MARMARA POSTGRADUATE COMMUNICATION STUDENTS CONGRESS-4

May 5-6, 2025

A Re-questing for Just and Effective Communication Order: Resistance, Decolonization, and Information Ecosystem

In today’s world, where communication tools are rapidly diversifying and becoming more accessible, anyone with literacy skills can use these tools to create content. In this context, undergraduate education in media and communication not only provides academic training but also equips students with the knowledge and skills needed for professional development. However, gaining a strong theoretical and methodological foundation that can be applied to both practical work and academic production is primarily achievable through postgraduate studies.

Based on this understanding, the International Marmara Postgraduate Communication Students Congress-4, organized by the Faculty of Communication of Marmara University, aims to contribute to media and communication studies at the postgraduate level. After a 5-year hiatus, it will be held again on May 5-6, 2025, with the theme " A Re-questing for Just and Effective Communication Order: Resistance, Decolonization, and Information Ecosystem”

The Marmara Postgraduate Communication Students Congress is designed to support postgraduate students in their academic work while helping them develop skills in idea generation, academic writing, self-expression, and presenting academic papers. The congress is open to all postgraduate students.

The first event, initially organized as a symposium in 2014, later took place as a congress in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Fourth-year undergraduate students from the Faculty of Communication at Marmara University, as hosts, are also eligible to apply. Abstracts and full papers must be submitted to iletisim-kongre@marmara.edu.tr

Topics:

• A more just and efficient communication order
• Relationship between mass media and colonialism
• Resistance and anti-colonial movements
• Decolonization and the Information Ecosystem
• Types of Colonialism, Mass Media and Communication
• A new search for an international media and communication order
• Preventive Journalism and Human Rights Journalism
• War Journalism
• Resistance and Media Literacy
• Media and Communication Ethics
• Colonialism and Cinema
• Decolonization and Cinema
• Colonialism, Genocide and the Media
• The Colonization of Palestine, Genocide and the Media
• Digital Communication and War
• Digital activism and slacktivism
• War Communication and Public Diplomacy
• Colonialism and Advertising
• Colonialism and Public Relations
• War and Information Verification
• Deep Fake, Disinformation, Manipulation, and Perception Management
• Epistemic decolonization
• Decolonization of knowledge

Participation and Application Requirements:

• All postgraduate students studying a topic in the field of media and communication are eligible to apply.
• The congress is open to all candidates pursuing postgraduate academic studies.
• Participation to the congress is free of charge, and it will be held in a hybrid format (both face-to-face and online).
• Accommodation, travel, and other expenses are the responsibility of the participants.
• Congress e-mail: iletisim-kongre@marmara.edu.tr