[ecrea] iamcr Durban conference section and wg calls - part 3

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IAMCR 2012 - Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group 
Call for Papers

erythrina_caffraThe Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working 
Group invites submissions of abstracts for papers for the 2012 IAMCR 
conference to be held from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus 
of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa. The 
deadline for submissions is February 14, 2012.

The conference will be held under the general theme, 'South-North 
Conversations'. The theme reflects the asymmetry of global communication 
flows, but without implying the negatives that usually accompany 
discussions of the 'digital divide'. The theme also calls for balanced 
and empowering narratives that do not regard those in ‘the South’ as 
victims primarily in need of handouts from the more affluent. The 
general conference theme is thus highly relevant to the increasingly 
global communication themes and concerns that are central to the 
Environment, Science and Risk Communication Group.

Papers from the full range of environment-science-risk-communication 
topics and perspectives will be considered, and those relating to the 
conference theme ‘South-North Conversations’ will be particularly welcome.

Key themes for the Durban sessions of the Working Group will include:

Uneven access to technological, political and social capital in the 
context of science/environment/risk communication
Visual media constructions of the environment
Asymmetrical news and information flows in environmental communication
Environmental disasters, corporate spin and news management
Media and global environmental change and controversy
Fighting back: empowerment of the local, the regional and sustainable 
integration into the global
Media and public understanding of science/environment issues
Science and health-related media panics
Science/environmental journalism
Media-communication roles in environmental disasters
Political uses/constructions of nature
Media, advocacy and environmental pressure groups
Environmental activism and new media
Whose story? Narrating/communicating global environmental change.
Processes of (de-)politicization in public and media discourses on 
technological and environmental risks
Media and democratic debate and citizenship in risk politic

Deadlines

The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 14, 2012. Please 
note that this deadline will not be extended.

The Open Conference System (OCS) will open on December 1, 2011, and will 
close on February 14, 2012.

Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to individual 
applicants by the Working Group Head no later than March 12, 2012.

On the same day, March 12, 2012, conference registration will open for 
bookings by participants.

For those whose abstracts are accepted, full conference papers are to be 
submitted via the IAMCR OCS by June 10, 2012.

Guidelines for Abstracts

Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words in length.

All abstract submissions must be made centrally via the OCS.

The Environment Group will consider only one submission per author.

Information

For further information on the conference, please contact the Local 
Organizing Committee (LOC) or consult the Conference Organizers via the 
website at: http://www.iamcr2012.ukzn.ac.za/ or by email at 
IAMCR2012[at]ukzn.ac.za.

Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group
Chair: Anders Hansen
University of Leicester, UK
ash[at]le.ac.uk
Vice-Chair:
Pieter Maeseele
University of Antwerp, Belgium
pieter.maeseele[at]ua.ac.be

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IAMCR 2012 - Ethics of Society and Ethics of Communication Working Group 
Call for Papers

erythrina_caffraThe Ethics of Society and Ethics of Communication 
Working Group of the IAMCR invites submissions of abstracts for papers 
for the next annual IAMCR conference to be held from July 15-19, 2012 at 
the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in 
Durban, South Africa. The conference will seek to explore the varied 
modalities of communication, of media flows and of associated 
identities, images and perceptions of the participants.

The Working Group welcomes submissions on all areas of interest to the 
broad designator of Ethics of Society and Ethics of Communication, and 
is especially interested in research on the following topics:

Covering the conflict between North and South;
“The image” of South in film and TV made by North broadcasting Companies;
The roles played by propaganda and disinformation in political news;
Ethical implications of the social and economic development North and South;
The role of ideology, religion, interests;
The dialectical and ethical relationship between urban development and 
globalization;
The influence of social change on ethical practices in North and South;
The relationship between ethics and politics;
The political developments in different areas of the world: comparing 
North and South;
The actors in the different modalities of political communication;
The sources of political information and their risks from an ethical 
point of view;
Political news and public relations

Guidelines for Abstract Submission

Please ensure that your abstract includes the title of the paper and 
author information: name(s) of author(s) and title (professor, 
postdoctoral fellow, graduate student, etc.), institutional affiliation, 
e-mail address, postal, phone and fax information should be provided.
Length of abstract: 300 - 500 words.
Mode of submission: All Abstracts should be submitted only via the 
central Open Conference System (OCS).
Number of submissions for this WG: Only one submission per author or 
co-author or panel chair or panel participant will be considered for 
review in this Working Group.

Please note that in submitting the same or very similar abstract to more 
than one section or working group, the author risks being removed from 
the conference program. Duplicate or very similar abstracts submitted to 
other sections or this Working Groups would not consider working groups 
for review

Note: Upon submission of an abstract, you will be asked to confirm that 
your submission is original and that it has not been previously 
published in the form presented. You will also be given an opportunity 
to declare if your submission is currently before another conference for 
consideration.

Languages
Although IAMCR accepts presentations in its official languages of 
Spanish, English, and French, we encourage abstract submissions in 
English to facilitate timely completion of the reviews and selections 
for the conference.

Deadlines

All submissions must be uploaded to the Open Conference System (OCS). 
The Online Conference System will open on December 1, 2011, and will 
close on February 14, 2012.

The Working Group Head will communicate decisions on acceptance of 
abstracts to individual applicants no later than March 12, 2012.

On the same day, March 12, 2012, conference registration will open for 
bookings by participants.

For those whose abstracts are accepted, full conference papers are to be 
submitted via the IAMCR OCS by June 10, 2012.

Information

For further general information on the conference, please contact the 
Local Organizing Committee (LOC) or consult the Conference Organizers 
via the website at:

http://www.iamcr2012.ukzn.ac.za/

or by email at

IAMCR2012[at]ukzn.ac.za

For any question please contact the coordinating team of Ethics of 
Society and Ethics of Communication working Group:
Co-Chair:
Manuel Parés Maicas
University Autónoma de Barcelona
Manuel.Pares[at]uab.cat
Co-Chair: Maria Teresa Nicolás
Universidad Panamericana, México
mnicolas[at]up.edu. mx

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IAMCR 2012 - Public Service Media Policies Working Group Call for Papers

erythrina_caffraThe Working Group on Public Service Media Policies of 
the International Association for Media and Communication Research 
invites submissions for the IAMCR Conference to be held from July 15-19, 
2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal 
(UKZN) in Durban, South Africa.

The deadline for submissions is February 14, 2012.

The conference will be held under the general theme, 'South-North 
Conversations'. The theme reflects the asymmetry of global communication 
flows, but without implying the negatives that usually accompany 
discussions of the 'digital divide'. The theme also calls for balanced 
and empowering practices and narratives that do not regard those in ‘the 
South’ as victims primarily in need of handouts from the more affluent.

Recently the Working Group on ‘European Public Broadcasting Policies’ 
has changed its name into ‘Public Service Media Policies’. This 
Conference in South Africa offers an excellent opportunity to strengthen 
our inclusiveness towards contributions from all over the globe and to 
respond to the current trend of convergence of media modalities. 
Reconceptualizing the public interest of/in the media and critically 
assessing old and new public service practices in social communications 
systems, taking into account social values such as diversity, access, 
quality and independence, is imperative in this new context. In this 
conference, we wish to emphasize the public and social value as well as 
the positive, empowering potential of public service media around the 
globe. Papers with reference to public service media, using the public 
and social value concept in the ‘Global South’ countries, territories 
and communities will be particularly welcomed.

Selected Issues

The WG on Public Service Media Policies welcomes papers and panels 
related to the conference theme, including such topics as:

The public value and social value dimensions of the social 
communications system at a global, national and/or regional level in a 
context of global crisis and transformation;
Restructuring public service institutions, ideas and practices between 
the problems of the past (e.g., paternalistic tradition, post-colonial 
heritage) and the challenges of the future (e.g., new technological 
challenges and political and commercial dependencies);
(Im)possibilities of public-private partnerships (e.g., ad hoc 
collaboration or joint ventures among regional broadcasters, regional 
newspapers, and digital forums) with a view to stronger ‘information 
clusters’ in the region, within a community;
Prospects for vulnerable content (e.g., homemade fiction, arts and 
culture or content aimed at kids, ethnic cultural minorities, small 
linguistic communities) on public service media;
Universal access in gender, age, education and/or ethnic origin-related 
terms in the context of public service media;
Privatization as a potential solution for vulnerable regional public 
platforms; experiences in the North and the South;
Specialization as a path to follow for public service media (e.g., no 
longer offering all genres, small vs. broad public service, in smaller 
and bigger countries)?
Identifying the optimal balance between competition and monopoly in the 
media ecology with a view to open and/or reflective diversity of public 
service media’s supply: case-studies;
News and deliberation as public service values: examples of fruitful 
collaboration between broadcasters and social media platforms.

Convenors: Jo Bardoel
ASCoR, University of Amsterdam
Radboud University Nijmegen
The Netherlands
Leen d’Haenens
KULeuven (University of Leuven)
Belgium

Deadlines

The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 14, 2012. Please 
note that this deadline will not be extended.

The Open Conference System (OCS) will open on December 1, 2011, and will 
close on February 14, 2012.

Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to individual 
applicants by their Section or Working Group Head no later than March 
12, 2012.

On the same day, March 12, 2012, conference registration will open for 
bookings by participants.

For those whose abstracts are accepted, full conference papers are to be 
submitted via the IAMCR OCS by June 10, 2012.

Guidelines for Abstracts

Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words in length.

Abstract submissions

All abstract submissions must be made centrally only via the OCS. There 
are to be no email submissions of abstracts addressed to any Section or 
Working Group Head.

It is expected that for the most part, only one (1) abstract will be 
submitted per person for consideration by the Conference. However, under 
no circumstances should there be more than three abstracts bearing the 
name of the same applicant either individually or as part of any group 
of authors. Please note also that the same abstract or another version 
with minor variations in title or content must not be submitted to other 
Sections or Working Groups of the Association for consideration, after 
an initial submission. Such submissions will be deemed to be in breach 
of the conference guidelines and will be automatically rejected by the 
Open Conference System, by the relevant Head or by the Conference 
Programme Referee. Such applicants risk being removed entirely from the 
conference programme.

Upon submission of an abstract, you will be asked to confirm that your 
submission is original and that it has not been previously published in 
the form presented. You will also be given an opportunity to declare if 
your submission is currently before another conference for consideration.

For further information, please contact the Local Organizing Committee 
(LOC) or consult the Conference Organizers via the website at:

http://www.iamcr2012.ukzn.ac.za/

or by email at:

IAMCR2012 [at] ukzn.ac.za

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IAMCR 2012 - Communication and HIV/AIDS and Health Communication and 
Change Working Groups Call for Papers

erythrina_caffraThe Communication and HIV/AIDS Working Group and the 
Health, Communication and Change Working Group of the International 
Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) welcome the 
submission of papers for the 2012 Conference to be held in Durban, South 
Africa from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the 
University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).

The theme of the conference, ‘South-North Conversations’, reflects the 
inherent asymmetries in communication flows between the developed and 
the developing nations.

Wider understandings of ‘developed- developing- underdeveloped’ 
countries in transition as well as the ‘core-periphery’ are changing. It 
can be evidenced by BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa), the 
‘African Renaissance’ and the African Union. We cannot, therefore, 
continue to assume that communication and media – seen in terms of value 
and meaning systems, historical trajectories, monetary and technological 
transfers – can continue to be seen as they have been in the past.

Yet the reality of disparity and inequalities persist, and these need to 
be situated and evaluated. South-North Conversations asks us to engage 
with disparities and inequalities in conversation – as partners, with 
peer-to-peer equality, in a more optimistic vision of global engagement. 
We hope to not only focus on topics close to the concerns of the host 
nation, South Africa, but also to a range of regional interests across 
the globe. Some of the sub-themes include:

Uneven access to technological, political and social capital;
Asymmetrical news and information flows;
The un-dead spectre of cultural imperialism;
Media & social media, social challenge and advocacy;
Communication as a tool of empowerment of the marginalised and the 
stigmatized;
Dependency on uneven donor-recipient relationships;
Lack of indigenous theory formation.

HIV/AIDS has been in existence around the world for over 25 years, and 
illnesses with a longer history continue to pose challenges across the 
socio-economic and medical spectrum. The greatest effects of the 
epidemic are felt predominantly by the most marginalized sectors of 
society, in developed and developing countries. This takes place in the 
context of increasing polarizations between the very rich and the very 
poor, increasing processes of exclusion and marginalization. This 
remains true for other health conditions, as these social processes are 
produced and reproduced across a range of health conditions. This 
includes unequal and value-laden communication flows between centres and 
peripheries, with political and socio-economic contexts and histories 
playing a role in how communication is perceived and used to address the 
problems. As such, anomalies and inequalities exist in the flow of 
knowledge between ‘North-South’ and centre-periphery within and between 
societies.

Call for Papers

The working groups wish to invite papers that engage with these dynamics 
in relation to HIV/AIDS and broader health conditions and concerns. We 
are interested in both theoretical and practice-based work that reflect 
upon health, including HIV/AIDS, in communication practice. In the 
context of this year’s conference theme, we are interested in issues 
related to health and/or HIV/AIDS and dynamics of inequalities and 
difference: How does communication intersect with HIV/AIDS, health and 
social change in the context of cores and peripheries. How can dialogue 
about HIV/AIDS, health and social change processes take place within the 
context of South-North relations? How have communication processes 
between the South and North been affected and changed by the epidemic 
and the changing nature of health and dis/ease? Where have spaces of 
communication about health and/or HIV/AIDS been created? What are their 
dimensions and textures? What are the uses of and intersections with 
alternative media and health and/or HIV/AIDS? What about health 
conditions, and the role of media and communication in constructing 
health discourses?

In addition to conference-specific themes, we will continue to encourage 
papers that engage with critical, dynamic reflection on communication 
research and practice, addressing the multiple dimensions of health, 
HIV/AIDS, communication and change, from multiple disciplinary 
perspectives. We encourage papers that enhance understandings of the 
role of media and communication in general about health, illness and 
disease, and the contexts in which diverse audiences engage with, 
negotiate, accept and/or resist these. This may include, for example, 
communication policy, implications of cultural contexts for 
communication, the influence of biomedical interventions on 
communication practice, campaign fatigue, governance and accountability, 
communication and the construction of illness and the gendered nature of 
the health and HIV/AIDS. Please consider the implications of your paper 
for communication theory and/or practice.

We are particularly interested in papers that present innovative 
approaches to HIV/AIDS and/or communication theory and practice, and 
take a critical approach to communication, exploring the 
interdisciplinary, multi-dimensional nature of the epidemic. As such, we 
hope to see more studies that move beyond traditional health 
communication models, and reflect upon the diversity of approaches to 
communication, including, for instance, social change communication, 
citizen/alternative/radical media approaches, participatory 
communication, advocacy communication, folk media and other cultural 
approaches.

Both individual abstracts and panel proposals are encouraged. The 
sessions of the working groups will be organized to suit emerging themes 
from submitted abstracts.

Logistics & Deadlines

It is expected that for the most part, only one (1) abstract will be 
submitted per person for consideration by the Conference. The working 
groups will consider no more than two abstracts per presenter. However, 
under no circumstances should there be more than three (3) abstracts 
bearing the name of the same applicant either individually or as part of 
any group of authors. Please note also that the same abstract or another 
version with minor variations in title or content must not be submitted 
to other Sections or Working Groups of the Association for 
consideration, after an initial submission. Such submissions will be 
deemed to be in breach of the conference guidelines and will be 
automatically rejected by the Open Conference System, by the relevant 
Head or by the Conference Programme Referee. Such applicants risk being 
removed entirely from the conference programme.

Upon submission of an abstract, you will be asked to confirm that your 
submission is original and that it has not been previously published in 
the form presented. You will also be given an opportunity to declare if 
your submission is currently before another conference for consideration.

Abstracts or panel proposals should include: the name(s) of author(s) 
and professional title(s); institutional affiliation; and e-mail 
address/contact information. Due to scheduling considerations, a limited 
number of panels will be accepted.

The deadline for submission of abstracts (between 300 and 500 words in 
length) is February 14, 2012. You will be informed whether or not your 
abstract is accepted by March 12, 2012. The deadline for full conference 
papers is June 10, 2012.

Abstract Submission

All abstract submissions must be made centrally via the Open Conference 
System (OCS). There are to be no email submissions of abstracts 
addressed to any Section or Working Group Head.

If you have trouble with the online submission process or questions 
related to this call for papers, please contact the co-chairs of the 
working group.

Please CC the co-chairs of the Communication and HIV/AIDS Working Group 
and the Health, Communication and Change Working Group:
Sarah Cardey:
s.p.cardey [at] reading.ac.uk
Ravindra Kumar Vemula:
ravindrakumar [at] efluniversity.ac.in
Nanna Engebretsen:
nanna.engebretsen [at] hil.no
Marjan De Bruin:
marjan.debruin [at] uwimona.edu.jm
Kate Holland: kate.holland [at] canberra.edu.au

Please note that if your abstract is accepted, you may be called upon to 
facilitate or moderate one of the working group sessions.

The Working Group will be cooperating with Critical Arts: South-North 
Cultural and Media Studies, in producing a theme issue arising out of 
the conference deliberations.

Papers presented at the conference will be considered for this issue but 
must be written as journal articles in the required style.

The issue is scheduled for 2012/5 (November). Selection will be done by 
the guest editors (Sarah Cardey et al.) at the conference and production 
will commence on 1. August. Critical Arts is ISI and IBSS listed, 
amongst other indexes.

For further information see:

http://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151&Itemid=87

This issue of Critical Arts is being is being sponsored by USAID/PEPFAR 
through Johns Hopkins Health and Education in South Africa an affiliate 
of the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, 
Centre for Communications Programs.

Author Services
Taylor & Francis
eJournals Archive (1980-1992)

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IAMCR 2012 - Media Production Analysis Working Group Call for Papers

erythrina_caffraThe Working Group for Media Production Analyses of the 
International Association for Media and Communication Research invites 
submissions for the 2012 IAMCR Congress in Durban, South Africa, from 
July 15 to 19, 2012.

This Working Group provides a venue for researchers of media production. 
The working group focuses on different professional norms, technologies, 
organizational contexts and genres to grasp the internal and external 
dynamics of media production processes.

Papers addressing the 2012 conference theme 'South-North Conversations' 
are most welcome. We also invite empirical studies of media production 
whether they are qualitative or quantitative in nature, whether they 
analyse fiction or non-fiction production or whether they analyse mass 
media, social media or personal media.



The group is open to all theoretical inspirations not only media science 
but also sociology, anthropology, management studies, etc. We also 
welcome work on methodological aspects of media production: production 
ethnography in general, problems and strategies of access or 
publication, and the theoretical grounding of methods. As our focus is 
on production, papers based entirely or mainly on content analysis will 
not be accepted.

The Working Group invites abstract submissions for the 2012 conference, 
and these may only be submitted via the IAMCR Open Conference System.

Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words in length.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is February 14, 2012. The 
results of peer reviews of submitted abstracts will be announced by the 
Working Group Head by March 12, 2012. Full papers must be submitted 
online via the IAMCR-OCS by June 10, 2012.

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The Media, Religion and Culture (MRC) Working Group invites proposals 
for papers to be presented at the annual conference for the 
International Association for Media & Communication Research at the 
Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN), in 
Durban, South Africa; from 15th-19th of July 2012. The website address 
of the Durban conference is: http:www.iamcr2012.ukzn.ac.za/



The working group on Media, Religion & Culture is scheduled to meet 
Monday-Wednesday, 16th-18th of July, with a business meeting on Tuesday.
The IAMCR conference will be held under the general theme, `South-North 
Conversations’. The term ‘Global South’ refers to communities that have 
been excluded from the mainstream of economic, social and communication 
development. The theme reflects asymmetry of global communication flows, 
but without implying the negatives that usually accompany discussions of 
the digital divide, and regard those in `the South’ as victims primarily 
in need of handouts from the more affluent. Rather, emphasis on what the 
North might take from the South in a reciprocal relation is invited.

There is hardly an established canon of research in this wide field of 
media, religion and culture, although some nuclei in the current 
research agenda can be identified. While the MRC working group will 
certainly welcome papers which address the media-religion aspects of the 
conference theme `South-North Conversations’, papers across the broad 
spectrum of research on the relationship of media, religion and culture 
are equally encouraged. These include images of religion in mass media; 
news coverage of religion; religious communities and the media; impact 
of media on religious practices whether personal or institutional; 
theological approaches to the mass media; new media and religion; the 
emergences of the religious according to new mediatic conditions; film 
and religion; religious media; religious public relations; the 
specificity of communication practices in religions given their singular 
content and claims; religious communication processes; media expression 
of faith and spirituality etc. Generally, there is an effort to support 
and clarify more descriptive scholarship with a number of the developing 
explanatory and theoretical accounts.

All approaches are welcome for proposed papers, provided they offer good 
quality and interesting, novel perspectives in their respective 
methodological nature.

Send your 300 to 500 words abstract by February 14th 2012. In accord 
with the instructions of the IAMCR organisers, all abstracts should be 
identified for the specific working group (in this case, Media, Religion 
& Culture) and must be submitted via the central Open Conference System 
(OCS). Submissions should not be sent directly to us at the working group.

The OCS system will open on December 1st 2011, and will close on 
February 14, 2012.

No more than three abstracts may be submitted by any applicant.

It is intended that decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be 
communicated to individual applicants by the Media, Religion and Culture 
working group no later than March 12th 2012. On the same day (March 
12th) conference registration will open for bookings by participants.

The full text of accepted papers must be submitted no later than June 
10th 2012.

Please, share this notice with other academic researchers on media and 
religion.

We look forward to seeing old and new participants in the working group 
in Durban.
Convenors: Frank Coffey
David Bauer Quest program
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
fdcoffey [at] yahoo.com
(Professor) Yoel Cohen
School of Communication
Ariel University Center
Ariel, Israel
ysrcohen [at] netvision.net.il
(Professor) Dominica Dipio
School of Languages, Literature & Communication
Makerere University
Kampala, Uganda
dodipio [at] yahoo.com

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IAMCR 2012 - Popular Culture Working Group Call for Papers

erythrina_caffraThe Popular Culture Working Group looks forward to the 
next IAMCR Conference and invites submissions (both individual proposals 
and collective panels) for the 2012 conference to be held at the Howard 
College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, 
South Africa, 15-19 July.

The conference will be held under the general theme, 'South-North 
Conversations'. The theme reflects the asymmetry of global communication 
flows, but without implying the negatives that usually accompany 
discussions of the 'digital divide'. The theme also calls for balanced 
and empowering narratives that do not regard those in ‘the South’ as 
victims primarily in need of handouts from the more affluent. The 
general conference theme is therefore highly relevant for the working 
group which concerns itself with the intersections between cultural 
practices, collective representations and the inscription of social 
inequalities.



Papers are sought that explore:

Convergent media and the construction of magic geographies
The reconfiguration of Hollywood and Latin American cultural production
Minority cultural production through apps and new media.
The new racism and the exoticism of the South.
Los Angeles, memory and the culture of hybridity.
Doing Del Toro: The New Hispanic Auteurs.
The Border as trope in mainstream Television and film production.
Television Fiction in Ibero-America
Global Formats and semiotic Imperialism
Mestizo cultural expression
Cultural authenticity and mash-up cultures
Global Celebrity and the logics of glocal identity
Carnival as a social incursion into mainstream media

Papers which explore other themes (or variants of the above) that fall 
within the overall Conference theme will also be considered.

Deadlines

The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 14, 2012. Please 
note that this deadline will not be extended.

The Open Conference System (OCS) will open on December 1, 2011, and will 
close on February 14, 2012.

Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to individual 
applicants by their Section or Working Group Head no later than March 
12, 2012.

On the same day, March 12, 2012, conference registration will open for 
bookings by participants.

For those whose abstracts are accepted, full conference papers are to be 
submitted via the IAMCR OCS by June 10, 2012.

Guidelines for Abstracts

Abstracts should be 300-500 words in length.

All abstract submissions must be made centrally via the Open Conference 
System (OCS).

The Popular Culture Working Group accepts only one paper per author. 
Proposals should only be proposed to one section or working group.

Information

General info on the conference:

For further information on the conference, please contact the Local 
Organizing Committee (LOC) or consult the Conference Organizers via the 
website at:

http://www.iamcr2012.ukzn.ac.za/

or by email at:

IAMCR2012[at]ukzn.ac.za

Info on the Popular Culture Working Group:

For more information about the Popular Culture Working Group and its 
plans for the Durban conference, please contact the coordinating team:
Chair:
Barry King
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
barry.king [at] aut.ac.nz

Advisory board:
Lothar Miklos
l.mikos [at] hff-potsdam.de

John Benson
j.benson [at] latrobe.edu.au

Sofie Van Bauwel
sofie.vanbauwel [at] ugent.be

Deborah Phillips
deborah.phillips [at] dsl.pipex.co

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IAMCR 2012 - Visual Culture Working Group Call for Papers

erythrina_caffraThe Visual Culture Working Group of the International 
Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites 
submissions of individual and panel proposals for its 2012 annual 
conference to be held in Durban, South Africa, July 15-19, 2012. The 
general theme of this year conference is 'South-North Conversations'.

Our group has been always involved in South-North dialogues in the 
discipline by encouraging theories and practice from the non-Western 
perspectives. It will be particularly relevant for research interests of 
our group and I would like to encourage to submit proposals related to 
visual culture from 'the South'.

The prospective themes would be cultural studies of visual media, 
history of visual culture, technology and visual media, sociological and 
anthropological research on visual communication, cinema studies, 
environments and visual communication and methodological issues in 
visual communication, but the group would not exclude any other themes 
related to visual cultures.

Deadlines

Submission: February 14, 2012

Decision on Acceptance: March 12, 2012

Full Paper: June 10, 2012 (accepted abstracted only)

Guidelines for Abstract Submission

Abstracts should be between 300-500 words.

Names of the authors, professional titles, institutional affiliations, 
email address should be included.

Abstracts (and full papers) should be submitted by IAMCR Open Conference 
System (OCS), not to the Section chair.

Any questions and inquiries should be directed to:

Sunny Yoon
Visual Culture Working Group, Chair
sunny33 [at] naver.com
syoon [at] hanyang.ac.kr


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