9th International Conference on Media and Information Literacy Issues a Call for Submissions
The UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture: Dual-Spaceing of the World, in collaboration with the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran and a number of academic and specialized institutions, has issued a call for the 9th International Conference on Media and Information Literacy, entitled “Everyone Has a Role: People as Actors in Cognitive Warfare in a World of Conflict.”
The UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture: Dual-Spaceing of the World will hold the 9th International Conference on Media and Information Literacy on the occasion of Global Media and Information Literacy Week, under the theme “Everyone Has a Role: People as Actors in Cognitive Warfare in a World of Conflict.”
Conference Themes
The conference will address the following themes: “Redesigning Media and Information Literacy for Cognitive Warfare”; “Algorithmic Governance and Cognitive Governance”; “Data Sovereignty and Cognitive Independence”; “Cognitive Agency in Human-Centred Information Ecosystems”; “Narrative Engineering and the Battle of Narratives”; “Cognitive Inoculation and Prebunking Strategies”; “Generative AI and the Future of Cognitive Warfare”; “The Human Mind as a Battlefield of Emotional, Cognitive and Affective Processes”; “Critical Thinking, Metacognition and Judgement under Conditions of Uncertainty”; “Media and Information Literacy against Behavioural Prediction and Manipulation”; “Cognitive Instability, Polarization and Social Reconfiguration”; “Visual Narratives, Memes and Short-Form Media in Cognitive Warfare”; “Quantum Computing and the Next Generation of Cognitive Warfare”; and “Future Cognitive Ecosystems and the Engineering of Perception.”
Date and Format
The conference will be held on Monday, 2 November 2026, in both in-person and online formats at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran.
Interested participants may submit their paper abstracts to the conference secretariat no later than 23 September 2026
