[ecrea] Announcement of Deadline Extension for IAMCR Durban 2012

Announcement of Deadline Extension for IAMCR Durban 2012
The deadline for submissions of abstracts of papers and panel proposals 
for the IAMCR Durban 2012 Conference has been extended to February 28, 
2012. This will permit applicants from all continents who could not make 
the earlier deadline to now submit their abstracts or panels for 
consideration for Durban.
The conference is 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 2012 IAMCR conference will be held under the general theme, 
'South-North Conversations'. The theme calls for balanced and empowering 
narratives between communications thinkers in developing countries, 
sometimes referred to as the 'global south' and those of the developed 
countries in the 'north'. It seeks to expose the interactive linkage of 
ideas and research initiatives within and across development and 
cultural regions.
Participants in the conference will interrogate the compatibilities and 
disjunctures in media and communication concepts originating 
respectively from the 'Global South' and the 'Global North'. In choosing 
the theme 'South-North Conversations', the conference organisers 
acknowledge that the 'South' has something important to say to the 
'North', and vice versa, and further that the 'North' has something to 
gain from its relationships with the 'South'. The concept of 
'conversations', indicates peer-to-peer dialogue, and a more 
interdependent vision of global conceptual engagements.

The conference will also seek to explore the varied modalities and 
technologies of communication, new methods of media flows and of 
associated identity creation, image-making and perceptions globally. It 
will examine the diverse forms of technology transfers and literacies 
from differently-situated regions of the globe, and differently- 
situated communities within regions, countries or organisations.
Contributions from both established researchers as well as from young 
and emerging scholars are equally encouraged.

Selected Issues
Some of the sub-themes that lend themselves to exploration across many 
of the IAMCR Sections and Working groups include:
"    Revisiting 20th century media and communication constructs
"    Critically evaluating communications research in the global south
"    Uneven access to technological, political and social capital
"    Varied access to information technologies
"    Alternative media literacies
"    Issues of the so-called 'digital divide' post WSIS
"    Asymmetrical news and information flows
"    Trend lines and origins of innovations, apps and new media
"    The spectre or reality of cultural imperialism: regional, global
"    Fighting back: empowerment of the local and regional
"    Local languages - a growth area or reversals in current global 
media eco-systems
"    Media development, democracy and ethics
"    Social media, challenge and advocacy
"    Users and service providers: north and south
"    Communication as a tool of empowerment of the marginalised and the 
stigmatized
"    Global media hegemony, regional hegemony and counter hegemony
"    Whose story?: competing historical narratives of communication from 
the north and south
"    Any other topic related to the general conference theme
Submission of Abstracts
Each Section and Working Group of the IAMCR has issued its own Call for 
Papers, based on the general thematic outline above. The list of 
Sections and Working Groups and links to their respective Calls may be 
found at the Conference website below. The deadline extension to 
February 28 applies to ALL IAMCR Section and Working Groups, and 
supersedes any prior deadline notations which may appear on some earlier 
announcements.
Abstracts should be submitted only via the central Open Conference 
System (OCS) at http://iamcr-ocs.org.

Deadlines
In light of the new abstracts deadline of February 28, 2012. The OCS 
system at http://iamcr-ocs.org will also close on February 28, 2012.

Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to individual 
applicants by their Section or Working Group Heads no later than March 
19, 2012.

Conference registration will open as originally scheduled on March 12, 
2012 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 at 
http://iamcr-ocs.org There are to be no email submissions of abstracts 
addressed to any Section or Working Group Head.

There should be no 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.

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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