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[ecrea] cfp: Civilmedia 11: Community Media for Social Change: Low Threshold ? High Impact
Wed Jan 19 21:12:58 GMT 2011
Call for presentations for:
"Civilmedia 11: Community Media for Social
Change: Low Threshold ? High Impact"; Salzburg, 14. ? 16. 04. 2011
http://wiki.civilmedia.eu
http://blog.radiofabrik.at
Registration: http://wiki.civilmedia.eu/index.php/Participants/Registration_11
This call refers to the following streams:
1 Public Value and Community Media
2 Feminist Media Production in Europe
3 Democracy and Quality
4 Researching Community Media Audiences
5 Crowd Funding & Social Payments
6 Cross Media Publishing
If you want to give a contribution outside of
these thematic streams please add your proposal
in the Civilmedia-conference-wiki:
http://wiki.civilmedia.eu/index.php/Proposals:_Presentations,_Workshops_11
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1. Public Value and Community Media (Thursday, 14.4., a.m.)
Host: Helmut Peissl
The concept of public value is intended to
evaluate and redefine the contribution of
broadcasting media for the functioning of the
democratic society. It?s not politicians or
managers who should decide on public value but
the citizens involved in decision making of the
media. The debate is relevant for all
broadcasting media as public funding should be
more and more related to their public value
contribution. Public service broadcasters are
setting up specific tools and departments to deal
with this issue. For community radios and TVs
this debate is crucial as it opens a new stage to
show their specific and manifold contribution for
local public spheres, tanscultural-dialogue and active citizenship.
We encourage the submission of presentations by
activists, media producers and academics for the following panel discussions:
Media for Public Value ? redefining the media landscape
What aspects and values can be found and
(re)defined to argue medias contribution for
public interest and the functioning of the
democratic society. How can media establish the
dialogue with their public as active citizens.
Public Value ? a new horizon for community media´s remit?
The concept of public value opens new options to
evaluate and argue CM´s contribution fulfilling
communicative needs of the democratic,
multilingual society. What chances and risks
brings this debate for the development of the CM-sector in Europe?
If you want to take part in one of the panels
please submit abstracts with max. 200 words in
English or German until Feb, 25th, 2011 to Helmut Peissl ( (hp /at/ commit.at) )
Acceptance notification: March, 12th, 2011
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2. Feminist Media Production in Europe (Thursday, 14.4., p.m.)
Hosts: Rosa Reitsamer and Elke Zobl
Women have always played an important role in
movements for social justice. Using media to
transport their messages, to disrupt social
orders and to spin novel social processes,
feminists have long recognised the importance of
self-managed media. In the past two decades an
increasing number of women have taken the tools
of media production into their hands; a vital
social phenomenon that has gone largely
undetected by members of the public, academia,
and even sometimes the feminist movement. As a
consequence of this invisibility, very little
documentation and research has been done so far
on women?s own media cultures, especially so in
Europe and with a focus on current developments
in the digital realm. To counter this gap and to
explore the processes, effects, potentials, and
limitations of women?s and feminist media
production in Europe, the thematic streams
focuses on contemporary feminist grassroots media
in general and on blogs, E-zines, culture
jamming, graffiti, radio, TV and digital archives in particular.
We encourage the submission of presentations (in
the form of talks, discussions, workshops,
exhibits etc.) by activists, media producers and
academics on the following topics:
* feminism and anti-racism
With the raise of new media and communication
technologies, women started to use these
technologies for the production and distribution
of feminist media. This demographics is often
described to as part of ?third wave feminism?,
?pop feminism? or ?Do-It-Yourself-feminism?. How
do feminist media producers engage with feminism
and anti-racism? Can we identify a ?new feminism?
in feminist blogs, E-zines, digital archives
etc.? If so: How does this ?new feminism?
distinguish itself from a Second Wave Feminism?
* local, transnational and virtual networks
The network concept, which emerged in the wake of
the controversy over globalization and the
globalization of media communications, is closely
related to Manuel Castells?s theory of the ?rise
of the network society? (Castells 2010). The
internet in general is perhaps the most obvious
illustration of Castells?s theory. How do
feminist media producers develop local,
transnational and virtual networks? How are
feminist media producers involved in various
networks that seek for social change? Which kind
of networks are developed in relation to the
production, distribution, geographic spread, content and aims of their media?
* "alternative economies?
?Alternative economies? are developed by media
producers and consumers as an alternative to the
global media conglomerates. Their primarily aim
is not to commodify media; rather alternative
economies focus on the exchange of knowledge and
information, the spread of emancipatory concepts
and activism, and they seek social change. How do
feminist media producers develop and engage in
?alternative economies?? What effect can they
have? In which ways do these ?alternative
economies? make feminist media with a low threshold and high impact possible?
* DIY citizenship / cultural citizenship and political education
Feminist media offer a space to express opinions,
experiences and political views, but they are
also a space in which a critical and
self-reflexive political education, and possibly
a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) or cultural citizenship,
could take place. Can we observe such an
expression of DIY or cultural citizenship and
political education in feminist media? How and
under which circumstances and in which context can they take place?
Please submit abstracts with max. 200 words in
English until Feb, 3rd, 2011 to Rosa Reitsamer
rosa(at)female-consequences.org and Elke Zobl Elke.Zobl(at)sbg.ac.at
Acceptance notification: March, 1st, 2011
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3. Democracy and Quality (Friday 15.4., a.m.)
Host: Nico Carpentier
Community media's offer a valuable contribution
to the democratisation of the media sphere and of
society as a whole. They (try to) change and
unsettle social inequalities by reworking the
power relations that are embedded in the
processes of media production. But this is not
always that easy, as power inequalities often
resurface despite the best intentions. Quality is
one of the areas where this problematics become
visible, as mainstream media's definitions of
quality, and their strong value judgements of
what is good and bad content, are always nearby.
Simultaneously, community media producers remain
committed to quality, at the levels of content,
content production processes and democratic
management. This thematic stream deals with this
tension, and how quality, democracy and participation can be reconciled.
Proposals for presentations by activists, media
producers and academics on the topic of democracy and quality.
Please send an abstract with max. 200 words in
English before Feb, 25th, 2011 to Nico Carpentier
- <(nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)>.
Acceptance notification: March, 12th, 2011
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4. Researching Community Media (Friday 15.4. p.m.)
Host: Salvatore Scifo
To be published later, see http://wiki.civilmedia.eu
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5 Crowdfunding & Social Payments (Saturday, 16.4. a.m.)
Host: David Röthler
Financing community media activities has always
been a challenge. But with the rise of the
Internet and Social Media new options are
explored. Crowdfunding closely related to
crowdsourcing describes the co-operation,
attention and trust by people who network and
pool their money together in order to support
efforts initiated by other people or
organisations. The term Crowdfunding is usually
applied to raising money for planned future
projects whereas the term Social Payment refers
to small remunerations for content already produced.
Crowdfunding & Social Payment are an innovative
and still experimental approach to finance
(online) content and projects utilising Web 2.0
paradigms. Among well-known platforms are
Kickstarter.com, Kachingle.com and Flattr.com.
This Civilmedia stream is looking forward to contributions like:
* Good practice Crowdfunding for community media and other domains
* Crowdfunding platforms
* Social Payment systems
* Compatibility with community media ethics
* Participation, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding
* ?.
The intention of this stream is to give an
overview on existing projects and to try to develop ideas for further action.
Please submit your proposal to David Röthler (david /at/ roethler.at)
Please, post your proposal/abstract as well to
http://wiki.civilmedia.eu/index.php/Crowdfunding_%26_Social_Payment
This stream will be transmitted live online
through a video conference system. Anyone
interested can follow and contribute online as well
Skype contact:
Skype d.roethler
Online resources:
http://www.delicious.com/davidro/crowdfunding
http://www.delicious.com/davidro/crowdsourcing
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6 Cross Media Publishing (Saturday, 16.4. p.m)
Host: Stefan Tenner
The Internet complements community radio or
television media in many ways. To communicate,
work cross media and interactive with the web is
more and more part of the daily working procces.
To publish news about the programme, audio or
video on demand and other issues on the website
and activities in online social networks like
Twitter and Facebook are increasingly growing.
The content and announcements get circulated by
the community and the web opens new ways for
participation, feedback and discussion. Also for
internal networking and decision making processes
useful tools are existing. Wiki and chat are used
for editorial preparation, blogs are a repository
for meeting minutes. Possibilities to virtually
meet other editors or members of the radio are increasing.
But how does this development effect community
media? How are we using the new possibilities and
which methods are existing to work more
effectively, to use new ways to publish and to
collaborate and organize feedback and offer more
participation? Which role are open software and
non for profit platforms playing?
This is a call for people from community media,
who are interested to discuss and present their
views or projects at a thematic stream on ?Cross
Media Publishing? at the UnConference Civilmedia
2011. Please propose your presentations, topics
for panel discussions and speeches to Stefan Tenner: (stefantenner /at/ web.de)
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For general information, please contact Eva Schmidhuber
Eva Schmidhuber
<(e.schmidhuber /at/ radiofabrik.at)>
Programmkoordination/Projekte
Radiofabrik - Freier Rundfunk Salzburg
Ulrike-Gschwandtner-Straße 5, 5020 Salzburg
+43-662-842961-24
www.radiofabrik.at
Salzburger Stadtteilradio:
http://stadtteil.radiofabrik.at
Inforadio von und für Neo-Salzburgerinnen:
http://willkommen.radiofabrik.at
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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
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T: ++ 32 (0)2-629.18.56
F: ++ 32 (0)2-629.36.84
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