In light of Philadelphia’s recent naming as the United States’s first World Heritage City, this year’s conference theme is media and the global city. The theme encompasses — but is not limited to — considerations of urban (sub)cultures, patterns of media engagement in urban spaces, urban centers as nodes of the global/local nexus, narratives of the city, or processes of civic engagement, networking and protest in urban communication.
Keynote Speaker
The 2016 Global Fusion Conference keynote speaker is Dr. Marwan Kraidy, Ph.D., from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Find out more about him here.
Plenary Speakers
Dr. Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana University, Bloomington
Dr. Karin Gwinn Wilkins, the University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Patrick Burkart, Texas A&M University
Dr. Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University
2016 Global Fusion Conference
Klein College of Media and Communication