[ecrea] RIPE@2012 in Sydney, Australia! - Value for Public Money; Money for Public Value

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*RIPE@2012 in Sydney, Australia!*

*/Value for Public Money; Money for Public Value/*

The 6^th bi-annual RIPE conference will bring together scholars and 
industry partners in public service media in Sydney, Australia from 
September 5 – 8, 2012. So please mark your calendars and begin making 
preparations to attend. Our sixth conference is co-hosted by the 
University of Sydney and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). 
A Call for Papers will be published in early autumn 2011, so please stay 
tuned for more information. We will begin updating the RIPE website soon 
(www.ripeat.org <http://www.ripeat.org>).

This is the first RIPE conference hosted in the southern hemisphere and 
aims to broaden this unique initiative in public service media research 
and industry concerns beyond Europe and North America to embrace work in 
Oceania, South and South-east Asia. Accordingly, submissions are 
particularly invited from scholars of public service media in the global 
south. The language of the conference is English.

The conference is structured for ABC to host the first day as a forum 
that will feature keynote speakers and plenary sessions from industry, 
partly from Australia and also beyond. The University of Sydney is 
hosting the second and third days. Day 2 will feature approximately 60 
paper presentations in three sessions across designated topical work 
groups that are relevant dimensions for exploring our theme. The topics 
will be announced with the Call for Proposals (CfP) this autumn. There 
will a two Steering Questions keyed to coming to some generalisable 
conclusions for the work of these groups relative to the conference 
theme. Eight to ten papers are selected for each workgroup to ensure 
plenty of time for fruitful discussion in the sessions. On Day 3 there 
is a moderated closing plenary dialogue in which a rapporteur from each 
work group presents its findings, contributing to the conclusions. After 
the conference, 15 to 20 authors of keynote addresses and papers will be 
invited to contribute a peer-reviewed chapter to a subsequent RIPE 
Reader published in the year following the conference (co-edited by 
Gregory Ferrell Lowe and Anne Dunn).

*Look out for the RIPE@2012 Call for Paper proposals!*