ICMFS 2021: 15. International Conference on Media and Film Studies

June 07-08, 2021 in San Francisco, United States

DIGITAL

Conference Code: 21US06ICMFS

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The International Research Conference Aims and Objectives

The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Events will run over a span of time during the conference depending on the number and length of the presentations. With its high quality, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.

ICMFS 2021: 15. International Conference on Media and Film Studies aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Media and Film Studies. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Media and Film Studies

Call for Contributions

Prospective authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference through submissions of their research abstracts, papers and e-posters. Also, high quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of Media and Film Studies are cordially invited for presentation at the conference. The conference solicits contributions of abstracts, papers and e-posters that address themes and topics of the conference, including figures, tables and references of novel research materials.

Guidelines for Authors

Please ensure your submission meets the conference's strict guidelines for accepting scholarly papers. Downloadable versions of the check list for Full-Text Papers and Abstract Papers.

Please refer to the Paper Submission Guideline, Abstract Submission Guideline and Author Information before submitting your paper.

Conference Proceedings

All submitted conference papers will be blind peer reviewed by three competent reviewers. The peer-reviewed conference proceedings are indexed in the Open Science Index, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Zenedo, OpenAIRE, BASE, WorldCAT, Sherpa/RoMEO, and other index databases. Impact Factor Indicators.

Special Journal Issues

ICMFS 2021 has teamed up with the Special Journal Issue on Media and Film Studies. A number of selected high-impact full text papers will also be considered for the special journal issues. All submitted papers will have the opportunity to be considered for this Special Journal Issue. The paper selection will be carried out during the peer review process as well as at the conference presentation stage. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. The final decision for paper selection will be made based on peer review reports by the Guest Editors and the Editor-in-Chief jointly. Selected full-text papers will be published online free of charge.

Conference Sponsor and Exhibitor Opportunities

The Conference offers the opportunity to become a conference sponsor or exhibitor. To participate as a sponsor or exhibitor, please download and complete the Conference Sponsorship Request Form.

Application Forms

Selected Papers

Affective Approach to Selected Ingmar Bergman Films
Grzegorz Zinkiewicz
Thresholding Approach for Automatic Detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms from Fluorescence in situ Hybridization Images
Zonglin Yang, Tatsuya Akiyama, Kerry S. Williamson, Michael J. Franklin, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj
The Socio-Economic Impact of the English Leather Glove Industry from the 17th Century to Its Recent Decline
Frances Turner
Development of an Intelligent Decision Support System for Smart Viticulture
C. M. Balaceanu, G. Suciu, C. S. Bosoc, O. Orza, C. Fernandez, Z. Viniczay
Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System for High School Students Based on Learning Styles
Stephen Akuma, Timothy Ndera
Improving Fake News Detection Using K-means and Support Vector Machine Approaches
Kasra Majbouri Yazdi, Adel Majbouri Yazdi, Saeid Khodayi, Jingyu Hou, Wanlei Zhou, Saeed Saedy
Intelligent System and Renewable Energy: A Farming Platform in Precision Agriculture
Ryan B. Escorial, Elmer A. Maravillas, Chris Jordan G. Aliac
A Short Survey of Integrating Urban Agriculture and Environmental Planning
Rayeheh Khatami, Toktam Hanaei, Mohammad Reza Mansouri Daneshvar
Words of Peace in the Speeches of the Egyptian President, Abdulfattah El-Sisi: A Corpus-Based Study
Mohamed S. Negm, Waleed S. Mandour
Government (Big) Data Ecosystem: Definition, Classification of Actors, and Their Roles
Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah, Vasilis Peristeras, Ioannis Magnisalis
The Necessity of Urban Boundaries in Planning Legislation: A Case Study in Bilecik, Turkey
Mercan Efe Güney, Barış Parlatangiller, Melik Ayer
Absent Theaters: A Virtual Reconstruction from Memories
P. Castillo Muñoz, A. Lara Ramírez
An Open Loop Distribution Module for Precise and Uniform Drip Fertigation in Soilless Culture
Juan Ignacio Arango, Andres Diaz, Giacomo Barbieri
Modeling Non-Darcy Natural Convection Flow of a Micropolar Dusty Fluid with Convective Boundary Condition
F. M. Hady, A. Mahdy, R. A. Mohamed, Omima A. Abo Zaid
Improving the Safety Performance of Workers by Assessing the Impact of Safety Culture on Workers’ Safety Behaviour in Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry: A Pilot Study in the Niger Delta Region
Efua Ehiaguina, Haruna Moda

Digital Program consists of the e-proceedings book which is available online-only and includes the conference communications (proceedings abstracts and papers). Registered participants can access the digitally available conference proceedings ( and certificates ) by visiting their profile pages.

Film and Media Studies
Advertising and Consumer Culture
American Film Genres
Art/Media Connections
Audience and Fan Studies
Audience and Reception Studies
Authorship and Genre
Avant-Garde and Experimental Media
Cinema Studies
Comics and Graphic Novels, and Journalism
Communication and Democracy
Communication Arts and Sciences
Communication Law and Policy
Communication Policies and Culture
Communication Studies
Communication, Mass Media and Culture
Communications Media Technologies
Contemporary Cinema: Industries, Narratives, Bodies
Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Copyright and Intellectual Property
Creative Arts, Film and Media
Critical, Cultural and Media Theories of Bodies, Technology, Language and Gender
Cult Media Studies
Cultural and Media Theories of Bodies
Cultural Studies
Cultural Transformations
Cultures and Identities in Film, Media and Literature
Democratisation- Communication Flow and Interaction
Diaspora, Migration and the Media
Digital Culture and Communication
Documentary and Propaganda Film
Feminist Theory: Gender and Political Studies
Film and TV Audiences
Film and Media Studies
Film and Television Genres
Film Criticism and Theory
Film Exhibition
Film Studies
Film, Still Photography, Television, and Digital Media
Fine Art, Design, Media, Film and Communications
Gender and communication
Gender and Queer Studies
Gender and Technology
Gendered Spectatorship
Globalization Theory/Transnational Media
Horror and Science Fiction Film
Influences on News Selection
International and Intercultural Communication
International Film Festivals
International Literature in Film Studies
Internet Communities
Internet as a Medium for Cinema, Movies, Video, Film Communication
Internet Media Studies
Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction
Issues of Authorship and Queer Identities
Journalism Studies and Communications
Languages and Linguistics
Latin American Cinema, Media and Culture
Lesbian/Gay/Queer Cinema and Theory
Marketing and Communications
Mass Communication and Media Studies
Mass Communication and Theatre
Mass Media and Communications
Media and Communications databases
Media Communication and Culture
Media Criticism
Media Institutions and Industries
Media, Art and Communications
Media, Religion, and Culture
Moving-Image Culture
Music, Movies and Meaning
National Cinemas

Abstracts/Full-Text Paper Submission Deadline		March 01, 2021
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection		March 15, 2021
Final Paper (Camera Ready) Submission & Early Bird Registration Deadline		May 06, 2021
Conference Dates		June 07-08, 2021

Khalid Aada	University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, US
Taoues Hadour	University of Central Florida, US
Kenneth Lee	California State University, US
Gaetan Giannini	De Sales University, US
Kiran Kumar Bandeli	University of Arkansas at Little Rock, US
Shariat Mobasser	Wayne State University, US
Ehi Aimiuwu	Campbellsville University, US
Irene Monteverde	University of Pittsburgh, US
William Alexander Yankes	University of California, Irvine, US
Abel Navarro	Borough of Manhattan Community College, US
Todd Walton	University of Maryland University College, US
Chyng Sun	New York University, US
Laura Vilardell	Northern Illinois University, US
Jessy Abouarab	Florida International University, US
Dabbu Jaijyan	Rutgers University, US
Antonio Scontrino	Bowling Green State University, US
Nalanda Roy	Georgia Southern University, US
Manu Sharma	Life and Annuities, Business Process Services, US
Muthu Dhandapani	Mitra Biotech, US
Ruth Mcintyre	Kennesaw State University, US
Cristina Richie	East Carolina University, US
Beth Kara Dawkins	Trinity Washington University, US
Mohammad Reza Zamani Kouhpanji	University of Minnesota Twin Cities, US
Salam Ibrahim	North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, US
Ben Atkins	Midwestern State University, US
Moniruzzaman Syed	LeMoyne-Owen College, US
Lorie Tuma	Grand Valley State University, US
Farzad Ahmadi	Virginia Tech, US
Bradley Bowers	Barry University, US
Fernando Valerio-Holguin	Colorado State University, US

Participation Type	Early Registration Ticket Fees	Registration Ticket Fees
Non-Student Oral/Poster Presenter Registration	€ 450	€ 500
Student Oral/Poster Presenter Registration	€ 350	€ 400
Listener Registration	€ 250	€ 300
Additional Paper Publication	€ 100

All conference materials and services will be delivered digitally to the participant with the online conference management system. Conference registration includes the following digital materials and services:

e-certificates [for Authors: Certificate of Attendance and Presentation; for Listeners: Certificate of Attendance; for Chairs: Certificate of Attendance and Appreciation; for Presenters: Certificate of Best Presentation (if conferred based appraisal)]
e-program
e-book
e-name badge
e-receipt
e-presentation

Presentation Types:

Physical presentation is an oral conferencing presentation that is made using digital technology including embedded digital elements ( texts, tables, graphs, or videos ) for PowerPoint sharing.
Digital presentation is a digital conferencing presentation that is made using digital technology including embedded digital elements ( texts, tables, graphs, or videos ) for PowerPoint sharing.

Early Bird Registration

Early Bird registration is valid until 2021-05-06 23:59:59

Online Credit Card Processing

Online payment option available for author and listener delegates.
Conference participants can make online credit card payments for conference registration fees.