[ecrea] Call for Papers: Africa and Media at UK ASA , September 2012

Call for Papers: Africa and Media at UK ASA



LEEDS -- 6-8 September, 2012



The Africa/Media Research Group of the University of Leeds Institute of 
Communications Studies will be hosting three panels

for the 2012 conference of the UK African Studies Association at Leeds 
University, 6-8 September, 2012.



Conference details are available at: www.asauk.net



Paper proposals / brief abstracts are welcome for the following panels:



Africa, Social Media, and New Communications Technologies

This panel connects to a forthcoming special issue of African Journalism 
Studies exploring the uses and implications of social media in Africa, 
and prospective panellists will be considered for inclusion in that 
issue. Possible themes of this panel include the role of social media 
and emerging communications technologies, including, especially, mobile 
telephony, in development and poverty elimination, fostering political 
participation, creating economic opportunity, and interacting with or 
bypassing traditional mass media.



Popular Representations of Africa

Two decades on from the publication of the book Africa’s Media Image and 
the multi-nation Image of Africa study, there remains ample evidence 
that a broadly negative popular image of Africa persists in news and 
popular culture; but there is also evidence of a resurgence of research 
interest in the phenomena. This panel provides a forum for examining 
that image, and its implications.



Media Governance and Regulation in Africa

As debates continue about the legacy of colonial media systems and the 
utility of evaluating African media systems according to Northern norms, 
it is worth examining, twenty years on, the success of the Windhoek 
Declaration in promoting a democratic media.





The deadline for paper submissions is the 27th of April 2012. Formal 
abstract submission is required at the ASA UK website by this date.
For further information or to informally propose a paper for these 
panels, please contact
Chris Paterson ((c.paterson /at/ leeds.ac.uk)) or Ufuoma Akpojivi 
((ics6ua /at/ leeds.ac.uk))



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