June 28 - July 2, 2026

Galway, Ireland

Deadline: February 3, 2026

The Multimodal Communication Research (MCR) Working Group invites the submission of abstracts for its 2026 conference, to be held from 28 June to 2 July 2026 in Galway, Ireland, hosted by the University of Galway. The deadline for submission is 3 February 2026 at 23:59 UTC.

Moving beyond assumptions that text is the only format in which media and communication research takes place, MCR welcomes projects in any modality other than a traditional research paper (e.g., ethnographic or documentary film, audiovisual essay, podcast, photo essay, exhibition, installation, performance, data visualization, game, animation, etc.). We feature peer-reviewed, multimodal research projects that rely upon arts-based methodologies to consider a range of epistemological, theoretical, ethical, and socio-cultural questions central to media and communication research.

link: https://iamcr.org/galway2026/cfp-mcr