[eccr] III Pan American Congress of Communication - "Commercial Integration or Cultural Dialogue in the context of the Information Society"

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III Pan American Congress of Communication

"Commercial Integration or Cultural Dialogue in the context of the 
Information Society"

July 12  16, 2005
UNIVERSITY OF BUENOS AIRES



             The College of Communications Sciences from the University of 
Buenos Aires has organized the III Pan American Congress of  Communication. 
The aim is to further develop a line of thought guided by the presentation 
of academic reflections which, on the basis of a multidisciplinary 
approach, proposes the discussion of communication problems in a richer and 
more diverse environment than that found in the discussions on business 
agreements or government meetings.



             The III Pan American Congress of Communication was a product 
of the First Colloquium on the Culture and Communications Industry at NAFTA 
and Mercosur, organized by José Marques de Melo in Brazil, and the Second 
NAFTA-Mercosur Meeting, organized by Joseph Staubhaar, at the University of 
Austin, Texas. Professor Gaëtan Tremblay suggested organizing a third 
meeting which went beyond the logic of the agreements limited to a set of 
countries, and to invite the representatives of all Latin American 
countries to take part in the dialogue. The First Pan American Colloquium 
of the Communications Sciences, The Cultural Industries and the Dialogue 
between Civilizations in the Americas", held in Montreal, was a complete 
success. In September 2003, the II Pan American Meeting was held in 
Zacatecas (Mexico), organized by Professor Delia Crovi Druetta.



             One of the main objectives of the III Pan American Congress of 
Communication is to make people aware of the need to discuss the problems 
of democratizing communication and the increasing difficulties faced by the 
Nation States to develop cultural policies to promote citizen participation 
and access. In 2005, the McBride Reports approval by the UNESCO General 
Assembly will celebrate the 25th anniversary. Today the McBride Report is 
still the main international document on communication policies. The 
convergence of the cultural industries with the telecom and information 
technology industries, and the increasing weight of the supranational 
organizations on the decisions about media-related policies underscore both 
the enduring validity of the McBride Report for its democratizing nature 
and, at the same time, the need to update its diagnosis and conclusions.



The Congress includes keynote presentations, and round tables or panel 
discussions for researchers to present their work on communication and 
culture. The Opening Session will be devoted to analyzing the continuities 
and upheavals regarding communication and culture policies since the 
approval of the McBride report. The keynote presentations will move around 
two core themes: "Cultural and Communication Policies in the era of 
regional integration", and "Citizenship, Participation, Democracy and 
Cultural Diversity in the face of the Information Society". The first theme 
will focus on the analysis of current communication and cultural trends; 
the second theme will focus on how the changes in the political and 
economic structure of culture have significantly modified the citizens 
perception of their relationship with the different regional cultures. The 
Congress also aims at drafting a document summarizing the concerns 
expressed during the meeting, document which may subsequently be sent to 
the IV Summit on the Information Society, to be held in Tunisia in late 
2005. The Closing Session will analyze the different strategies regarding 
communication and culture policies in face of the advent of the so-called 
Information Society. The thematic blocks will help organize the 
presentations that scholars researching communication problems send to the 
Congress.



National Organizing Committee

Pablo Alabarces; Jorge Bernetti; Sergio Caletti; Sandra Carli; Nicolás 
Casullo; Guillermo De Carli;  María Rosa del Coto; Alicia Entel; José Luis 
Fernández; Christian Ferrer; Aníbal Ford; Alejandro Grimson; Damián Loreti; 
Stella Martini; Guillermo Mastrini; Carlos Mangone; Mónica Petracci; Ana 
Rosato; Jorge Rivera; Carlos Savransky; Federico Schuster; Oscar Steimberg; 
Washington Uranga; Mirta Varela; Eduardo Vizer;

National Scientific Committee

Héctor Angélico (UBA); Martín Becerra (Univ. Nac. Quilmes); María Isabel 
Bertolotto (UBA); Cristina Baccín (Univ. Nac. Centro Prov. Bs As.); Gustavo 
Cimadevilla (Univ. Nac. Río Cuarto); Andrés Dimitriu (Univ. Nac. Comahue); 
Roberto Follari (Univ. Nac. Cuyo); María C. Mata (Univ. Nac. Cordoba); 
Jorge Mayer (UBA); Lucas Rubinich (UBA); Luciano Sanguinetti (Univ. Nac. La 
Plata); Héctor Schmucler (CEA - Córdoba).

International Scientific Committee

Luis Ramiro Beltrán (Bolivia); César Bolaño (Brasil) Enrique Bustamante 
(TELOS- UCM); Delia Crovi (UNAM); John Downing (USA); José Marques de Melo 
(UMESP); Armand Mattelart (Paris 8);  Antonio Pasquali (UCV); Germán Rey 
(Colombia); Omar Rincón (Univ. Javeriana); Enrique Sánchez Ruiz 
(Guadalajara); Philipp Schlesinger (UK); Beatriz Solís (UAM-X); Luis 
Stolovich (Uruguay); Joseph Strubhaar (Austin Texas); Guillermo Sunkel 
(Chile); Gaëtan Tremblay (UQAM); Janet Wasko (Univ. Oregon); George Yúdice 
(USA)

Information and registration

Mail: (panam2005 /at/ mail.fsoc.uba.ar)

Phone: ++54 - 11- 4982-5002/3411/0521 int 102

Address: Ramos Mejía 841 - 2do piso - Dirección de la Carrera de Ciencias 
de la Comunicación - CP: 1405 - Buenos Aires - Argentina


Support:

FONCyT, Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica.



Schedule:

September: Call for Papers

December 6: Deadline for submissions Northern Hemisphere

December 20: publication of papers accepted Northern Hemisphere

April 4: Deadline for submissions Southern Hemisphere

May 2: publication of papers accepted Southern Hemisphere

June 6: Deadline for submissions of final papers for CD



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