[eccr] OURMedia IV - Building Communication Societies

>  ( versiones de este documento en español y portuges vienen
>aparte)
>
>Dear OURMedia Members,
>
>The Conference Planning Committee-- 45 people from 18 countries-- has
>been hard at work to develop a very exciting and important conference. We 
>hope you are all making your arrangements to attend  OURMedia IV in Porto 
>Alegre, Brazil this July 22-25, 2004 and we look  forward to seeing you there.
>
>  Below is the conference announcement for OM IV and we need your help to 
> circulate it and invite people who want to join us. We also hope to soon 
> receive your proposals and ideas for conference sessions!
>
>1) Please forward the announcement below to anyone you think might be 
>interested. We need your help to attract people in (from) your region, 
>networks and field of action. If you send it to any email lists 
>(listservs), websites or newsletters where it is posted, please contact 
>Liza at (om2004 /at/ ourmedianet.org) so we can keep track of all  e-lists, 
>newsgroups, websites, newsletters where the announcement has already been sent.
>2) Please let us know if you have ideas for local Porto Alegre groups and 
>people we should contact about the conference. We are looking for contacts 
>in Brazil and particularly in the Porto Alegre region and the state of Rio 
>Grande do Sul who work with community radio,
>community TV or print media, "communications for development" projects, 
>youth and ICTs, popular education using media/ICTs, media and 
>communications policy activists/advocates, as well as indymedia and other 
>grassroots political ICT projects (other suggestions welcome!). Names and 
>information for groups and people to contact in Porto Alegre and around 
>the region can also be sent to (om2004 /at/ ourmedia.net).
>
>  More info below!
>
>Thank you and hope to see you in July!
>
>The OURMedia/NuestrosMedios IV Conference Planning Committee
>
>
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>  {{please forward}}
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>  OURMedia/NuestrosMedios IV: Building Communication Societies
>  An International Conference
>  July 22-25, 2004 Porto Alegre, Brazil
>  :::: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PROPOSALS ::::
>
>  Proposal Deadline: May 10, 2004, 22:00/10pm GMT (17:00/5pm EDT).
>
>  OURMedia/NuestrosMedios is an international network of more than 270
>  academics and activists: researchers, practitioners and advocates 
> working in more than forty countries to strengthen media and 
> information/communication technologies (ICTs) that support social 
> justice, human rights, community autonomy and grassroots empowerment.
>
>  Our work spans many fields: community media, independent media, radical 
> media, citizens media, grassroots networking, telecommunications policy, 
> indymedia activism, cultural arts, communications theory, social-movement 
> research, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies,
>development communication and communication for social change.
>
>Our annual meeting is a time for OURMedia members to learn from each other 
>and to strengthen our analyses, strategies, collaborations and campaigns. 
>At this point, membership is free and open to anyone  who shares our 
>guiding principles: please see our website:
>http://www.ourmedianet.org.
>
>We invite you to join us (membership is included with conference 
>registration).
>
>OURMedia/NuestrosMedios IV: Building Communication Societies
>will take place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 22-25, 2004 as a 
>pre-conference to the
>IAMCR, the International Association of Media and Communications Research,
>but is independent from that event, with our own program, specific criteria
>for session proposals and registration fees (scaled to the participant's 
>ability to pay,
>no-one will be turned away for lack of funds).
>
>Please see http://www.ourmedianet.org/om2004 for more information.
>
>This four day conference will feature:
>
>++ FIELD TRIPS to local Brazilian grassroots media and ICT projects,
>  advocacy campaigns and popular education centers
>
>++ PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATORY SESSIONS: panels, workshops and
>  strategic discussions to focus on connecting research, advocacy and
>practice.
>Topics include:
>** Connecting Research and Advocacy for Citizens Media, Community Media
>** Current Media/ICT Policy Issues and Implications.
>** "Best Practices" and "Notable Failures," (stories and lessons from 
>citizens' media and grassroots networking projects, media/ICT advocacy and 
>policy campaigns, researcher-practitioner collaborations and other social 
>movements that relate to current efforts for
>community/citizens  media, "communication rights," "media democracy, "free
>speech,"  "media  diversity," "media justice" and other goals.)
>
>  ++ POLYMEDIA LABORATORY: "NossoMidiaLab" -- an open space for
>experimentation,  creation, collaboration and skill-sharing to explore 
>autonomous and
>community uses of video, audio, Internet and other traditional and new media
>technologies
>
>A Call for Proposals is currently open until May 10. You do not have to 
>submit a proposal to attend the conference. For more information on 
>registering to attend or submitting a proposal, please visit our web page 
>or write to (om2004 /at/ ourmedianet.org) to request a copy of
>  the Call for Proposals or the Registration Form.
>
>  OURMedia/NuestrosMedios
>  http://www.ourmedianet.org

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