On the eve of the meeting between Chinese President Hu Jintao and US
President Barack Obama we wish to remind you of the theme of the 4th
International Forum on PR and Advertising which will be held at the
*University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA*
*23-25 August 2011*
on the theme of
*=93The future of US-Chinese MEDIA COMMUNICATION and public diplomacy in a
Post-Crisis World=94*
1. Abstracts of about 800 words, in English or Chinese, have to be sent to
the organizers of the conference (English abstracts to Jan Servaes, *
(csschange /at/ gmail.com)*; Chinese abstracts to *(hust87559084 /at/ sohu.com)*) *befor=
e
1 March 2011*.
2. Applicants will receive a reply before 1 April 2011.
3. Full papers have to be submitted by 1 June 2011 the latest. Papers
submitted must be original and have never been published in any format
before. The paper should be of a length of 10,000 words maximum.
The submission must be in Word or rtf. format and sent to the following
designated emails:
Submissions in Chinese: (hust87559084 /at/ sohu.com)
Submissions in English: (csschange /at/ gmail.com) <(kitty.leung /at/ cityu.edu.hk)>
Specific guidelines on formatting will be provided upon request. This is to
facilitate compilation of papers for publication and anonymous review.
A selection of the best papers (in English) will, after peer review, be
published in two special issues of the following Elsevier journals:
*Public Relations Review* <
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/620188/descrip=
tion#description>
and
*Telematics and Informatics. An Interdisciplinary Journal on the Social
Impacts of New Technologies* <
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/703/descriptio=
n#description
>
For general conference information, registration, travel to Amherst, etc.,
please visit our website:
https://regstg.com/Registration/Introduction.aspx?rid=3D2784f218-cdfe-4824-=
ae9a-ff9f45f7a943or
check
www.csschange.org <file://localhost/%2522http/::www.csschange.o> for regula=
r
updates.
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Prof. Jan Servaes
Director, SBS Center 'Communication for Sustainable Social Change' (CSSC)
University of Massachusetts
Machmer Hall 415
Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Tel: +1 413 545 5773/4314
Fax: +1 413 545 6399
(csschange /at/ gmail.com)
www.csschange.org
