October 9-10, 2025

Budapest, Hungary

This interdisciplinary symposium will explore the evolving intersection of mediatization, technology, and society, focusing on how automation, algorithmic culture, and AI systems transform media, communication, institutions, and everyday life. Under the thematic triad of truth, trust, and transformation, we invite contributions that critically examine how technological mediation reshapes epistemic authority, social imaginaries, public discourse, science communication or journalism while also interrogating the shifting boundaries between humans, technologies, and institutions.

We welcome theoretical and empirical work from scholars in media and communication studies, science and technology studies (STS), sociology, political science, digital humanities, and related fields of interdisciplinary research. The event aims to foster dialogue on the role of mediatization in reinforcing or disrupting trust, navigating post-truth conditions, and envisioning new pathways for democratic and ethical transformation in technologically saturated societies.

As part of this initiative, the organizing committee will submit a proposal for a Special Issue in a Q-ranked journal. The highest-rated papers from the symposium will be considered for publication, especially those developed through open discussion/workshop-based collaboration.

Apply HERE.