Dear AoIR Community, This is a reminder about our thrilling ICA25 Preconference, *Debating Creator Culture*, hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder, College of Media, Communication, and Information, on June 11, 2025. *The submission deadline is January 31, 2025.* *What’s the debate all about?* Building on recent research into creators, influencers, and digital labor and visibility, we wish to collectively explore whether “creator studies” constitutes a new subfield, an extension of communication studies, or something else entirely. Revisiting foundational debates around disciplines and field-setting, we ask (borrowing from Baym, 2005): What is the “right term” for this scholarly community and its work? Is it an academic “field” or “discipline”? To what extent does “creator studies” demand a unique scholarly space strengthened by interdisciplinary epistemologies and methods, especially from communication and media studies? *We particularly welcome papers or panels that explore and debate topics such as:* # Continuities and departures from media and communication history # Studies that bring outside or novel epistemologies, theories, and frameworks into dialogue with existing communication scholarship # New approaches, methods, or questions deemed central to creator studies # Questions about the value of content-related terms, such as “format,” “genre,” and “engagement” # The structural and material conditions of creator industries # The global formations and dynamics of creator industries, particularly in peripheral markets and the Global South, and in response to the conditions posed by platform nationalism *For more details, including the full CFP, schedule, and submission instructions, visit:* https://www.ccsn.site/ica *Stay connected with us!* Subscribe to the *CCSN newsletter*: https://www.ccsn.site/ Follow us on *Instagram*: https://www.instagram.com/weareccsn/ Join us on *Bluesky*: https://bsky.app/profile/weareccsn.bsky.social For any further questions, don’t hesitate to reach out also via email - contentcreatorscholarsnetwork@gmail.com We’re looking forward to seeing your submissions and engaging in meaningful conversations! The CCSN -- *Tom Divon* Media & Culture R*esearcher* Dept. of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC, Herzliya Tel: +972-547-532681 [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/TomDivon>[image: Instagram] <https://www.instagram.com/divon.tom/>[image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/tom.divon> *Publications*: Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231157607>. Playful Publics on TikTok: The Memetic Israeli-Palestinian War of #CHALLENGE <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377439020_Playful_publics_on_TikTok_The_memetic_Israeli-Palestinian_war_of_CHALLENGE> . #JewishTikTok: The JewToks' Fight against Antisemitism <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359548581_JewishTikTok>. Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 Seconds? <https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/2022/03/24/can-you-learn-about-the-holocaust-in-60-seconds-on-tiktok/> TikTok(ing) Ukraine: Meme-based Expressions of Cultural Trauma on Social Media <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Moa-Eriksson-Krutroek/publication/378460815_TikToking_Ukraine_Meme-based_Expressions_of_Cultural_Trauma_on_Social_Media/links/65d9f11be7670d36abda037e/TikToking-Ukraine-Meme-based-Expressions-of-Cultural-Trauma-on-Social-Media.pdf> Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: Mixed Methods, Data Curation & Anti-publics <https://jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/issue/view/17/18> Performing Death and Trauma? Participatory Mem(e)ory and The Holocaust In TikTok #POVchallenges <https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/12995> visit my web! https://tomdivon.com/