2025 World Media Economics and Management Conference (WMEMC)

As we gear up for the 2025 edition, we’re excited to announce that the main theme will focus on: “Reinventing Management for Turbulent Times: Confronting the Next Wave of Digital Disruption”.

Stay tuned for thought-provoking discussions, lively debates, and invaluable insights from the top media business experts around the world. It promises to be a cannot-miss event for anyone passionate about the future of the media industry. Below we are presenting the preliminary program of WMEMC 2025.

Focus and Objectives

The focus for the WMEMC 2025 centers on examining, analyzing and developing insights to deepen understandings of the rapid pace and complexity of change in media industries to both advance theory in the field and support practical efforts to develop media in the many aspects of key interest. These certainly include financial, structural, technological, cultural, societal, political and ideological aspects of media and media-society relations. We seek answers to questions of fundamental importance for understanding what and how media industries, organizations, and professionals need to prepare for the future and how both professional practice and media research and education must adapt to be useful.

The Purview of ResearchWMEMC is a diverse and inclusive community of researchers and practitioners from around the world. We welcome submissions on the conference theme from a wide range of approaches and themes from all parts of the world. Past conferences have welcomed participants from the Americas, Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe and many countries in Global South and north. We are keen to invite interdisciplinary and 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Challenges for media ethics and in media policy and regulatory environments, sectors and society, sustainability of media systems.
5. Projects and initiatives related to media economics and management that are pertinent to innovation in media industries in turbulent times.
6. Other questions and issues that challenge, extend and/or add to contemporary knowledge in the fields of media economic and management.