[eccr] Call for Papers IAMCR Taipei 2005

>Dear Gender Section Members,
>
>Below, please find a copy of the Call for Papers for the upcoming (2005) 
>IAMCR meeting, to be held in Taiwan.
>
>In addition, there is a very brief section report recapping the Porto 
>Alegre conference (July 2004). All of this information will be reprinted 
>in the upcoming IAMCR newsletter which will come to you in hard copy form, 
>via snail trail.
>
>Apropos of communications, if any section member wishes to have 
>information passed on to other members of the section -- pertaining to 
>projects, funding, book announcements, jobs and the like, please feel free 
>to send those posts to me and I will try to distribute them either via the 
>mailing list or else on the home page (which we should have updated and 
>running in early October).
>
>Best wishes for now,
>
>Todd (for Gita)
>
>--------------------------------
>
>Call for Papers
>
>The Gender Section invites proposals for the IAMCR conference in Taipei 
>(July 26-28, 2005). Any proposal addressing the relationship between 
>gender and media or communication will be considered  without regard to 
>empirical, theoretical, or disciplinary approach. Contributions which seek 
>to address the conference theme (<http://www.pucrs.br/famecos/iamcr>Media 
>Panics: Freedom, Control and Democracy in the age of Globalisation) are 
>especially welcome. Complete panels proposals are encouraged, although 
>individual papers will also be considered.
>
>In keeping with our philosophy of recognizing the multiple points of 
>intersection between gender, communication and other areas of substantive 
>interest to IAMCRs many publics, we are actively committed to convening 
>joint sessions with other sections. Thus, as in Barcelona (2002), we plan 
>to construct and jointly sponsor panels with the Media and Sport Section. 
>To this end, abstracts addressing issues related to gender, media and 
>sport will receive a particularly warm reception. Abstracts for this joint 
>session should be emailed to Todd Holden 
>(<mailto:(holden /at/ intcul.tohoku.ac.jp)>(holden /at/ intcul.tohoku.ac.jp) or 
><mailto:(t_sensei /at/ hotmail.com)>(t_sensei /at/ hotmail.com)).
>
>All proposals should include a 500 word abstract, followed by the title, 
>name, institutional address and email address of the author or authors. No 
>biographical notes or references should be included. Please email all 
>proposals to the section heads by the date stipulated in the IAMCR 
>newsletter. Notification will be made about 15 weeks prior to the conference.
>
>Inquiries regarding possible themes are welcome; indications of intent to 
>submit would be very much appreciated.
>
>Porto Alegre Report:
>
>The Gender Section completed a very successful four days of presentations 
>in Porto Alegre. Altogether 9 panels were organized, with 33 papers 
>accepted for presentation, from 14 countries, representing Asia, North and 
>South America, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Like many other 
>sections at Porto Alegre, a number of late cancellations reduced the total 
>presentations to 19, with a balance between established researchers and 
>postgraduate students. A full listing of session titles, paper titles and 
>contributors can be found on the Sections website.
>
>The papers ran the gamut of methodologies  from quantitative surveys to 
>observation of media users to interviews to content analyses of media 
>products. The media assessed included film, advertising, TV broadcasting, 
>fiction, fashion magazines, newspapers and the Internet. Substantive 
>themes touched upon constructions of femininity and masculinity, 
>discrimination, globalization, homosexuality, racism, sexism, sexuality, 
>sexual harassment, the social construction of beauty, and violence. 
>Contexts studied included Australia, Brazil, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, the 
>Middle East, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Spain, Taiwan, and the United 
>States. Sessions were well attended, with an average audience size of 20. 
>In terms of gender balance, audiences remained heavily female and only 
>three presenters were male  imbalances that the section is actively 
>committed to redressing. Perhaps reflective of this aim, Todd Holden was 
>elected Co-chair of the section. He replaces Karen Ross who served with 
>vision and verve for the past four years. We wish to take this time to 
>thank Karen for the dedication that she has brought to the Section, 
>enriching and improving it these past few years.
>
>As for Karen, she wishes to express the following sentiments to IAMCR, in 
>general, and the Gender Section, in particular:
>
>As I step down from co-chairing the Gender and Communication Section and 
>leave it in the capable hands of Todd Holden and Gita Bamezai, I think 
>about how issues of gender and media have finally entered the mainstream 
>as a result of many of our efforts over the decades to insist that gender 
>really does matter. I am pleased that, as gender studies has further 
>widened its scope to embrace sexuality and masculinity, that these 
>paradigm shifts have been reflected in the changing nature of the 
>Section's conference programme over the past few years, and in the 
>election of our first male co-chair at Porto Alegre. I wish Todd and Gita 
>well in their exciting times they have ahead.
>-- Karen Ross outgoing Co-Chair, Gender and Communication Section
>
>Submitted by: Gita Bamezai 
>(<mailto:(gitabamezai /at/ excite.com)>(gitabamezai /at/ excite.com)) and Todd Holden 
>(<mailto:(holden /at/ intcul.tohoku.ac.jp)>(holden /at/ intcul.tohoku.ac.jp))
>Gender and Communication Section Co-Chairs:
>
>
>-----------------------------------------------
>Todd Joseph Miles Holden, Ph.D.
>Professor, Mediated Sociology
>Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
>Tohoku University
>Sendai, Japan
>
>Tel/Fax: 81-22-217-7626
>Alt. email: <mailto:(t_sensei /at/ hotmail.com)>(t_sensei /at/ hotmail.com)
>
>New Book: Globalization, Culture and Inequality in Asia: 
><http://www.intcul.tohoku.ac.jp/multi-cultural/GCIA/GCIA_ab.html>http://www.intcul.tohoku.ac.jp/multi-cultural/GCIA/GCIA_ab.html
>Home Page: 
><http://www.intcul.tohoku.ac.jp/~holden/index.html>http://www.intcul.tohoku.ac.jp/~holden/
>
>Also visit: Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ): http://www.ajjonline.net
>
>And: Asia Pacific Sociology Association (APSA): 
>http://www.asiapacificsociology.org
>

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