CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - due 28 February 2011
MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND DEMOCRACY: GLOBAL AND NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
CONFERENCE IN MELBOURNE (1-2 SEPTEMBER 2011), WITH SELECTED PAPERS TO
BE INCLUDED IN A SPECIAL ISSUE OF COMMUNICATION, POLITICS & CULTURE
(Issue 45.1, July 2012)
In cooperation with the RMIT School of Media and Communication and the
European Union Centre at RMIT University, Australia, the Media and
Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (University of Oxford) is
holding a conference on â??Media, Communication and Democracy: Global
and National Environmentsâ??.
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Timing: 1-2 September 2011
The Conference will be organised around the following areas:
Class, property, markets and money: the social environment of
communication and democracy
Re-thinking the relations between media and democracy: institutions,
organizations, representations, scales of government
The changing practices and relations of journalism: towards democratic
affordances?
We invite researchers working on media, communication and democracy in
the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, the Asia Pacific
region, Latin America or Africa (including post-socialist societies and
transitional political entities, or on new democratic forms and
formations), to submit paper abstracts of up to 500 words by 28 February
2011.
A full copy of the CFP is available at
http://mde.politics.ox.ac.uk/images/stories/melbourne_cfp.pdf
Dr. Philip Dearman
Lecturer (Politics Economies Communication)
School of Media and Communication
& General Editor (Joint) Communication, Politics & Culture
http://www.rmit.edu.au/mediacommunication/cpc
RMIT University
GPO Box 2476
Melbourne VIC 3001
Australia
Ph: +61 3 9925 9568
