El Global Communication Summit Emerson-Blanquerna és una cimera que compta amb conferències magistrals, presentacions i taules rodones que aborden l’impacte de les noves tecnologies en la comunicació, així com les incerteses socials, polítiques i econòmiques associades a aquestes transformacions.

La presentació va anar a càrrec de la Dra. Míriam Díez, vicedegana de Recerca, Transferència, Doctorat i Relacions Internacionals, que va fer una introducció destacant la importància de la recerca; el Dr. Marc Polo, degà de la Facultat, va posar en valor l’aliança amb Emerson durant més d’una dècada; i Gregory Payne, cofundador i director d’Emerson College, va encoratjar els estudiants d’Emerson a "aprofitar l’ocasió per construir ponts amb Barcelona i Blanquerna, i va remarcar que és el moment de reconstruir la governança global."

Carme Colomina, periodista i investigadora del CIDOB, va fer la conferència inaugural “Europe in a Hard Power Competition Trap”, on va exposar que "la Unió Europea es troba en un estat de perplexitat en aquest nou món" i que "ha esdevingut una observadora mancada de poder."

Després d’un refrigeri, es van iniciar les taules rodones a les aules de la Biblioteca.

1. Crisis of Trust: Power and Narratives in a Shifting World

Chair: Andreu Torner

Helena Cardona Garriga – The role of civil society in countering extreme-violence in Kenya.

Giorgia Mitotto & María Luisa Medrano García – The Strengthening Link Between Donald Trump’s Online Attention and Wall Street Sentiment

Anna Mateo Roca – Christian Nationalism in the United States: The four dimensions of the political movement.

2. Digital Communities and the Transformation of Sports and Beyond

Chair: Òscar Mateos

José Torres-Pruñonosa & María Luisa Medrano García – From Communication to Revenue: The Impact of Digital Attention on European Football Clubs

Amaya Briones – Emerson Channel Sports (ECS)

Luisa Bernadó Linares – A theoretical framework approach to the Performance Guide: an External Trusted Advisor Role for Sustainable Organizational Performance

3. Communication, Religion, Justice and Community

Chair: Alba Sabaté

Owen Eagan – “Even if We Can Help One Person”: The Influence of 15 Horas on Combatting Domestic Violence

Keri Thompson & Charles Rosario – Deploying Public Speaking in Prison to Model Social Justice

Jordi Collell & Alba Sabaté – Are We Speaking the Same Language? Analysis of Catalan Bishops' Media Columns and Public Concerns

Daniel Ramos – Emerson College Communication, Politics, and Law Association (CPLA)

4. Sport as Geopolitics: Power, Identity and Global Narratives

Chair: Andrea Daza

Mark Brodie – Més que un Club: Catalonia’s Struggle Played Out in El Clásico

Dylan Butlin – “To Dare Is to Do”: An Insight Into Socialist Solidarity in English Football Clubs

Bryson Akins – Sports Journalism and Global Narratives

5. Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Communication, Privacy and Human Creativity

Chair: Elena Yeste

Eduard Vidal-Portés – From Target Identification to AI-Enabled Communication: State of the Art and the Role of Co-Creation

Linda Gallant & Gloria M. Boone – Bridging the Embodiment Gap in Creative AI: A Burkean Rhetorical Analysis and Remedies for the Boundaries

Rosa Liliana De Simone & Pedro Campos de Oliveira e Moura – Digital Protest, Crisis Communication, and Algorithmic Visibility: Geo-Netnography of Consumer Activism During Climate-Induced Energy Blackouts in Chile and Brazil

Joan-Francesc Fondevila-Gascón & Júlia Alabart-Algueró – User Experience and Artificial Intelligence: Privacy Protection in Digital Marketing

6. From Lobbying to Diplomacy: New Frontiers in Political Communication

Chair: Keri Thompson

Gregory Payne & Enric Ordeix – Building a Chair in Global Communication and Corporate Diplomacy as an evolution of the BE Center for Global Communication

Jordi Roigé i Solé – LPLP: A Structured Model for Brand Development and Management

Alfredo Arceo Vacas & Sergio Álvarez Sánchez – Lobbying of the Health Interest Groups: The Activity of the Spanish Organizations in Brussels

7. Migration as a Global Communication Struggle: Borders, Advocacy and Exclusionary Discourses

Chair: Pere Franch

Pau Garcia Sanchez – Fishing Industrialization in The Gambia: How Unsustainable Development Fuels Irregular Migration? From a post-structuralist political ecology perspective

Sharifa Simon Roberts & Timothy Affonso – Migrant Advocates in Trinidad

Emma Ruiz Velasco-Biddle – Redefining “Deport”: Populist Framing of Immigration on X

8. Branding the Future: Sustainability, Protest and Inclusive Communities

Chair: Jaume Suau

Lluc Vila Boix & Francisco de Asís Díez Martín – How Sustainability and Quality Shape Legitimacy in Luxury Brands

Marc Compte-Pujol, Ferran Lalueza & Elisenda Estanyol – The Future Won’t Wait: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as a Survival Strategy for Global PR

Giorgia Miotto & Alicia Blanco-Gonzalez – Research Ethics Committees as Mechanisms of Legitimacy and Governance in Higher Education

9. Rethinking Academia: Teaching, Ethics and Knowledge in Global Communication

Chair: Jordi Collell

Lanita Foley – Gamifying Peer Review: OER-Enhanced Bingo for International Student Success in Rhetorical Analysis

Briana Cordon – "On the (Digital) Utilization American Nationalism, ( (An Exploratory Research Presentation)"

Andrea Daza Tapia – Journalism as a Performing Art: A Pedagogical Experiment with Implications for the News Industry

10. Journalism and Political Communication in Europe and Beyond

Chair: Sharifa Simon-Roberts

Pere Franch – Content Curation in Independent and Media Newsletters: Good Practices and Recommendations

Jordi Xuclà – Framing Conflict and Shaping Power: Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy in the South Caucasus

Ana Ćurić – Looking into origins of Data Journalism in Spain vs. the United Kingdom

Javier Lucea Garcia – The discourse of the media about women leadership in crisis’ times: The representation of Angela Merkel’s leadership during COVID-19 pandemic in American and European Journals

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