Dear all Center for Digital Dignity, the UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, and Center for Information Integrity in Africa — together with an amazing global team of organizers — are hosting a preconference at ICA 2026 in South Africa: https://www.fordigitaldignity.com/international-communication-association-20... It will take place on June 3rd, 2026 at the Lanzerac Hotel in Stellenbosch, South Africa. *Global Disruptions: Platforms, Power, and Contested Communication *is an in-person, full-day preconference that will bring scholars together to understand the complicated role of media and communication in disrupting states and societies around the world. We will have four tracks of scholarship, and our objective is to connect a community of scholars from across the communication subfields to explicitly analyze the relationship between media, communication, political institutions, and social and political movements, as well as media and communication's role in democratic decay. *Submission Deadline: February 6th, 2026. Submission site: * https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0AuFGBkh6CZO23qF6YUX8QEBw310NdJWn... Best wishes Sahana *** Sahana Udupa, PhD | Professor of Media Anthropology | LMU Munich BKC Faculty Associate, Harvard University