Accepted Presentations

One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity. As of June 17, 2026, KAMC2026 has received over 240 submissions from 47 countries and territories - including: Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, the United States, and Vietnam.

The following submissions have been accepted for presentation at KAMC2026.

Advertising, Marketing, & Public Relations

- Deceptive by Design: A Systematic Literature Review of Dark Patterns, User Behaviour, and Ethical Concerns in E-Commerce
- Voices that Matter: the Influence of eWOM on Purchase Intention Among Personal Care and Cosmetic Consumers
- Beyond Leisure: Digital Construction of Earned Experience in Nature-Based Sport Events in Bali
- The Role of On-Stage and Off-Stage Content in Shaping Emotional Attachment and Loyalty: A Case Study of BTS
- Nature Imagery and Textual Information in Sustainable Marketing
- Context-Aware Consumer Simulation: Enhancing LLM-based Advertising Evaluation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music

- Sacred Domesticity: Performance, Space, and Belonging in Batak Toba Partangiangan
- Revisiting Popular Song Arrangement in Prewar Taiwanese 78 RPM Records: Sound Archives, Recording Industry Documents, and an Overlooked Analytical Layer
- Pentatonic Perception and Melodic Identity in Khayal and Jiuta: An Indian Listening Perspective

Arts Practices

- A Method for Generating Partial Glitch Sounds and Glitch Music Creation
- Mithila Painting: Continuity and Change
- Generative AI and Creative Learning: Rethinking Comics Pedagogy in Visual Communication Classrooms
- Reconstructing Tapajó Ceramics: Fragment, Memory, and Contemporary Practice in the Brazilian Amazon

Literature, Literary Studies and Theory

- Knowledge, Power, and the Illusion of Freedom in Haruki Murakami’s ‘Kafka on the Shore’
- Teaching Civic Responsibility Through Greek Tragedy: Antigone in the Literature Classroom
- Weird Sensibility at the Threshold: Entropy, Narrative Saturation, and the Crisis of Perception in Contemporary Argentine Literature
- Algorithmic Authorship and Posthuman Textuality: Rethinking Literary Theory in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
- Trust in the Idol: Necropolitics and the Commodification of Trust in to Be Hero X
- Rabindranath Tagore’s Kabuliwalla as Father-and-Daughter Fiction: The Kabuliwalla’s Metaphorical Paternal Love for a Girl in Hindu Patriarchal Society

Climate Change and Arts, Media, Culture

- Draping the More-than-Human Eco–Polynary: (Re-)conceptualising Indigenous Naga Weaving as Posthumanist Climatic Knowledge
- Galamsey and Environmental Governance in Ghana: Media Framing, Policy Gaps, and Sustainable Solutions
- Craft as Art, Art as Response: Interdisciplinary Practice in the Age of Climate Crisis
- The Role of the Wantok System in Community Adaptation to Extreme Environmental Events in the Solomon Islands

Difference/Identity/Ethnicity

- Reflecting Religious Identities Through Political Actions: A Case Study Among American Mennonites
- From Darkness to Dignity: A Discourse on Adivasi Women as Custodians of Culture, Land and Identity in Contemporary Literature

Digital Humanities

- Pioneering Hybrid Multi-scale Forgery Detection: AI-generated Image Discrimination at Early Stages via Adaptive Frequency-CLIP Fusion
- A Discourse Analysis on Indonesia’s Cyber Securitisation Posture from 2019-2024
- Performing Humanity: Opera, Identity Economies, and the Crisis of Voice, Authenticity, and Cultural Legitimacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- The Photograph that Never Happened: AI and the Reimagining of Presence

Politics and Philosophy

- The Theory of Incremental Normalisation: A Grounded Theory on the Cultural Habituation of Corruption in the Philippines
- Beyond the Battlefield: State Terrorism as a Tool of Foreign Policy

Ageing Studies

- Ageless Afterlives: Ageing, Mortality, and the Digital Resurrection of the Dead Bodies in the Era of AI

Gender, Sexuality and Culture

- Ritualized Femininity and Negotiated Agency: Gendered Wedding Practices in Contemporary Urban China
- Voices from the Margins: Advancing Epistemic and Social Justice Through the Lived Realities of Men Who Have Sex with Men
- Communicating Care: Role Negotiation Among Indonesian Postgraduate Women in Family, Work, and Academic Life
- Low-Risk Intimacy? Gender, AI, and the Changing Dynamics of Emotional Relationships
- Digital Financial Inclusion for Ethnic Minority Women in Vietnam: Between Cultural Barriers, Gendered Inequality, and Legal Empowerment
- Questioning Heteronormative Interpretations of Seme/Uke Dynamics in Boys Love Through Naisho No Stalker-san

Architecture, Geography and Urban Studies

- Designing Inclusive Community: Architectural Space and Religious Pluralism in Gereja Maria Assumpta Klaten, Indonesia
- Tech Futures, White Futures: Tech-led Gentrification in Philadelphia’s University City and Montreal’s Parc Extension
- Interpreting Heritage in Contemporary Design: Cultural Representation in the Works of Gen-Z Philippine Architecture Students

Language and Cultural Studies

- Technology-Supported Reflection: AI-Generated Picture Books as Language Journey Narratives in High School English
- Demythologising Subtitling in Entertainment and Media Industry: Proofreading and Revising Subtitles for the TV Show “Divine Messengers” (2025)
- Intercultural Communicative Competence Among Thai Ship Port Staff for International Cruise Lines: An Empirical Mixed-Methods Assessment
- Exploring Podcast-Based Narrative Learning for International Students’ Sociocultural Adaptation
- Navigating Mandarin Pronouns in Mandarin-English Simultaneous Interpreting: A Corpus-Based Study

Media Studies

- Toward a Thermodynamic Aesthetics: The Metabolic Blockchain and NFT Art
- When AI Speaks Arabic: Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to AI Adoption in Doha’s Newsrooms
- Side Hustle or Soft Life: Remote Work Representation Analysis on Instagram Reels
- From One-Way Projection to Two-Way Interaction: Deconstructing the Path from Cognition to Behavior in Character.AI Parasocial Interaction
- Social Media as a Participatory Archive for Culinary Heritage: Discourse and Interpretations of Sisig on Facebook
- The Traumatised Hero’s Journey: Healing, Endurance, and Performance from the US, Japan to Korea
- Different Faces, Similar Effects? Comparing AI Humans and AI Vtubers in Immersive Marketing and Consumer Purchase Intention
- Smartphones, Politics, and News: Media Practices of Women Councillors in Delhi, India
- AI Artivism: Where Art Remaps AI Topography Today
- The Digital Discourse on Motherhood: A Case Study of YouTube Family Vlogs and Viewer Engagement
- Mediatised Deviance and Rhythms: Journalistic Framing of Illicit Substance Use Among South African Amapiano Artistes

Visual Culture

- Manga Beyond East Asia: Audience, Industry, and the Glocalization of Asian Sequential Visual Narrative in Uzbekistan
- Rebirthing Tradition: Gao Jianfu’s Transnational Vision for a New National Painting in Early Republican China, 1910s–1940s
- Social Networks and the Living Archive: Practices of Urban Knowledge Production in South Africa
- Grotesque Ecologies in the Age of Collapse: Media, Artificial Intelligence, and the Crisis of the Human in Grotesquerie
- Designing the Modern: Japanese Crossovers in Indian Visual Culture and Ephemera (1920-1950)
- Essay on Representations of Brazilian Masculinity: The Homoerotic Photography of Brazilian Artist Alair Gomes
- Seeing Otherwise: Intelligence, Agency, and the Colonial Photographic Encounter
- The Depictions of Skulls and Demons in Japanese Ukiyo-e
- Visuality in New Media Art: Decoding Students’ Visual Narratives

Communication

- The Mediating Role of Cognitive Offloading in the Relationship Between AI Companionship and Interpersonal Conflict Handling Strategies
- Algorithmic Echo Chambers: How AI-Driven Social Media Feeds Shape Political Perception Among Filipino Gen Zs
- Designing Inclusion, Reproducing Stereotype: a Content Analysis of Microaggressions in Indigenous Student Program Admission Posters at Taiwanese Universities
- Beyond Grammar: Investigating the Impact of Communicative Language Teaching and Task-based Learning on English Language Proficiency and Learners’ Motivation

Film Studies

- Evolving Traditions: Reimagining Ritual Performance Across Two Generations of Malayalam Film
- The Parajanov Paradox: Sacred Opacity and the Biopolitics of the Unassimilable
- A Few Dollars More? The Influence of Spaghetti Westerns on Hollywood
- Imaginary Companions as Narrative Agents of Schizophrenia and Recovery in ‘The Boy and the Dog’
- The Toy Film as Tactile Gaze: Play, Mechanical Intelligence, and Human Agency

Cultural Studies

- Cultural Burning Manifests More-than-human Intelligence
- From Ritual Tradition to Cultural Commodity: the Transformation of Arak Bali in Contemporary Bali
- The Sacres Void: Tokonoma in Japanese Architecture
- From Heritage to Storytelling: Community Media and the Co-Creation of Local Historical Narratives in Lasem, Indonesia
- Reading Geometry as Culture: Ethnomathematics, Indigenous Knowledge, and Cultural Preservation Among the Baduy Community in Indonesia
- The God of Taiwanese Opera and Puppetry: The Deity with a Crab on His Face

Cultural and Media Studies

- From User Empathy to Immersive Narrative: Socially Engaged Immersive Media Creation

Sociology

- Art as Advocacy: College Students’ Perspectives on the Philippines’ Socio-political Climate
- The Role of Job Insecurity, Social Capital, and Human Capital in Work-Life Balance Among Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z

Education / Pedagogy

- Inequity in “Shadow” Music Education: Motives and Challenges of Parents from Low-income Families in Hong Kong
- The Veil as an African Pedagogical Philosophy
- Inquiry-Based and Debate-Oriented Pedagogy in Enhancing Critical Thinking Competence in English Among Freshman Students: A Mixed Method Study
- Manifestations of AI Bias in Language Teaching Materials
- Learning How to Practice and Value a Local Craft