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[eccr] Media and Identity in Asia conference

Thu Jun 09 08:48:57 GMT 2005


>Media-Asia Research Group 2006 Conference
>
>Media and Identity in Asia
>
>Conference Theme
>The debate over 'media/cultural imperialism' of the
>west has become
>complicated in the last two decades by the emergence
>of media
>technologies which allow messages and images, on the
>one hand, to be
>instantly broadcast across the globe; and on the
>other, to be produced
>relatively cheaply for narrow-casting to sub-national
>groups both within
>and across national boundaries. If the 20th century
>was the era of the
>nation being imagined in print and broadcast media,
>then in the 21st
>century that imagination maybe under challenge by new
>technologies that
>enable the imagination of new politico-cultural
>topographies. The
>purpose of this conference is to address the shape of
>national, local,
>ethnicised and gendered identities being formulated by
>and in the media
>in Asia in the 21st century.
>
>Curtin University of Technology, Sarawak, Malaysia
>15-16 February 2006
>Please go to the conference website:
>http://mediaandidentity.curtin.edu.my/index.htm
>
>Media-Asia Research Group
>2006 Conference
>
>Media and Identity in Asia
>
>Curtin University of Technology, Sarawak, Malaysia
>15-16 February 2006
>
>The Call for Papers follows:
>
>You are invited to submit a presentation proposal
>based on the
>conference theme to the Media-Asia Research Group's
>2006 Conference to
>be held in Miri (Sarawak, Malaysia) in February 2006.
>
>The Media-Asia Research Group is based at Curtin
>University of
>Technology, Perth, Western Australia. It has members
>from Australia and
>Asia dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary
>research on the
>media in Asia. This conference is jointly organised
>by Curtin
>University of Technology, Perth and Curtin University
>of Technology,
>Sarawak, Malaysia.
>
>Conference Theme
>The debate over 'media/cultural imperialism' of the
>west has become
>complicated in the last two decades by the emergence
>of media
>technologies which allow messages and images, on the
>one hand, to be
>instantly broadcast across the globe; and on the
>other, to be produced
>relatively cheaply for narrow-casting to sub-national
>groups both within
>and across national boundaries. If the 20th century
>was the era of the
>nation being imagined in print and broadcast media,
>then in the 21st
>century that imagination maybe under challenge by new
>technologies that
>enable the imagination of new politico-cultural
>topographies. The
>purpose of this conference is to address the shape of
>national, local,
>ethnicised and gendered identities being formulated by
>and in the media
>in Asia in the 21st century.
>
>This is an international, interdisciplinary conference
>which invites
>analytical papers focusing on one or more of the
>following issues and
>themes:
>* Gender and the Media
>* Re-visiting the Media/Cultural Imperialism
>Debate
>* Media Law / Censorship and Regulation in the
>Media
>* New vs Traditional Media
>* Internet Studies
>* ICT for Development
>* Media Industries and Corporate Communication
>* Media Education
>* Media Networking
>* Representation of Asian Identities in the
>Foreign Media
>* Language, Rhetoric and Identity in the Media
>
>We welcome proposals for individual papers as well as
>workshops and
>panels. Abstracts of no more than 250 words are to be
>submitted by 30
>September 2005 to (marg2006 /at/ curtin.edu.my) or through
>the conference
>website listed below.
>
>Proposals should include: Title of paper, abstract,
>format (single
>paper, workshop or panel), Author's name(s) and
>biodata (50 words),
>equipment required (VCR, data projector etc),
>institution of affiliation
>and contact details (email, fax and phone).
>
>For more information, please visit the conference
>website:
>http://mediaandidentity.curtin.edu.my/index.htm
>
>
>Wendy Sahanaya
>Research Assistant to Professor Krishna Sen
>Faculty of Media, Information and Society
>Curtin University of Technology
>GPO Box U1987
>Perth 6845
>Ph. (08) 9266 4054
>Fax (08) 9266 3818
>www.marg.humanities.curtin.edu.au
>
>

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