1st HCIAS Symposium on Ibero-American Studies - Communication in Polarized Societies

The 1st HCIAS International Symposium addresses the study of communication and its multiple socio-political implications in Ibero-American societies. Ibero-America, with its imbrications within the region and with other regions of the world, is characterized by highly dynamic socio-cultural processes of transformation in which the role of communication is decisive.
The symposium adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to reveal the analytical potential of the framework of societal communication, especially with regard to the analysis of transversal issues such as democratization and democratic backsliding, polarization, or trust. At the same time, it highlights the capacity of area studies to analyze and interpret contemporary communication phenomena based on profound regional knowledge.
The 1st HCIAS Symposium welcomes theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions from different perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities addressing one of the following four subfields:

1. Political communication and the public sphere
2. (Inter-)cultural Communication
3. Public communication, knowledge society, and social development
4. Digitalization and artificial intelligence in public communication