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

Fri Apr 06 21:15:28 GMT 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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