[ecrea] ANZCA 2015 call for papers | Queenstown New Zealand

The Australian and New Zealand Communication Association warmly welcomes
papers and panel proposals for its forthcoming conference in Queenstown,
New Zealand, on 8-10 July, 2015. The theme of this year’s conference is
Rethinking Communication, Space and Identity.

Confirmed keynote speakers (more to come):

* Prof François Cooren (Montreal)
* Prof Steven Livingston (George Washington)
* Prof Caroline Haythornthwaite (British Columbia)

The conference will be preceded by a Postgraduate and Early Career
Researcher Symposium. Details of this will be announced separately.

Conference theme

The challenge to re-imagine concepts that are fundamental to how we
relate, make sense of our symbolic and physical surroundings, and form
selves describes the broad focus of ANZCA 2015. As James Carey once
poignantly observed, we make maps of and for reality and then live in
them. However, the question for all those interested in the power of
communication, how do we free ourselves from the tyranny of past models to
imagine new maps of and for reality…again?

Despite the so-called converging properties of global digital media and
markets, the physical distances remain the same, and material disparities
have grown considerably. Changing material and symbolic contexts and
phenomena have brought new tensions and opportunities. To pluralise and
paraphrase the wisdom of ancient Maori observation, people never fish a
river twice. They are not the same people, and
it is not the same river. The arrest and detainment of three Al Jazeera
journalists, including Australian Peter Greste, in Egypt in the wake of
military reasserting their power following the overthrow of the
democratically elected Islamic government, reinforces doubt in the
emancipatory effects of online social media.  How much of the old is there
in new communication modes?

No one will ever know the extent of the role of cyber-bullying in the
tragic death of New Zealand-born, Australian media personality Charlotte
Dawson. However, there is sufficient anecdotal evidence to suggest hers is
the public face of a phenomenon that terrorizes the
lives of many youth struggling to negotiate the hazardous boundaries
between public and private spaces, and identity experimentation. How can
communication research serve the vulnerable?

The continuing revelations of the extent of surveillance and spying by
media, corporate and government institutions blur the boundaries between
the legal and legitimate. Just how different are Andy Gould’s actions from
the NSA’s? Is it simply a matter of scale and hegemonic claims to
legitimacy? Where are the boundaries between national security and
imperial expansion and/or maintenance? How do we begin to disentangle
power, propaganda and ethics in communication?

There are no simple answers, but how we conceptualise communication, space
and identity has much to contribute to these conversations.
We invite papers for a conference to help us rethink communication and our
role as communication scholars. We welcome in particular papers that
explore how the three interrelated concepts of communication, space and
identity in all their forms and practices, are imagined and theorized, and
how they might enable and emancipate.

Streams

You are invited to submit a full paper, abstract or panel proposal for
inclusion in the 2015 ANZCA conference. Papers that reflect on the
conference theme of Rethinking Communication, Space and Identity are
particularly encouraged. Papers should be submitted by Friday 27 February
for presentation in one of the following streams:

Citizenship
Communication Theory
Community Media
Creativity/Creative
Industries
Cross-cultural, interpersonal
and intrapersonal communication
Cultural Politics (including
ethnicity, multiculturalism, religion, etc.)
Cultural Studies
Disability
Environment and science
Ethics and law
Games
Gender
Global media and development
Health
Indigeneity
Journalism
Media Arts
Media History
Media Studies
Mobile or locative media
New media (including games,
mobile media, social media, digital media)
Open stream
Organisational communication
(business, corporate, advertising)
Pedagogy (media education,
approaches, etc.)
Political and Government
Communication
Public Relations
Sports

Key dates

Friday 27 February: abstracts, panel proposals and papers due
Friday 20 March: notification of acceptance for conference
Wed 29 April: reviews of full papers sent to authors
Friday 1 May: registration due (early bird rate)
Friday 5 June: final registration date for postgrad and early career
symposium
Friday 5 June: revised full papers due
Wed-Fri 8-10 July: conference dates; late registrations for full
conference welcome


If you are submitting a full paper, please note that acceptance for the
conference will be decided in March. Acceptance for the conference
proceedings will be decided in June on the basis of successful completion
of revisions. Those reviews will be sent out before the earlybird deadline
of 1 May, with revised papers due in June. Any papers rejected after
review may, at the organisers’ discretion, be presented as oral-only
papers.

Supporters

The conference is kindly supported by a number of organisations, including
the University of Canterbury, the University of Otago, Ako Aotearoa,
Internet NZ, the Otago University Centre for Science Communication and the
Public Relations Institute of New Zealand.

Costs and bursaries

Early bird registration: $400
Full registration: $470
Early bird student/unwaged: $250
Full student/unwaged: $320

Note: these figures do not include the conference dinner or the
postgraduate and early career researcher symposium, which are costed
separately.

The conference organisers have secured 100 rooms at the conference hotel,
Rydges Queenstown, at $149 (+ breakfast).

A small number of bursaries will be available. More details to follow on
these.

The conference website will be open for submissions and registration in
October.

Further information

A full call for papers is available at the conference blog at
http://anzca2015.wordpress.com. Please follow the blog and the like our
Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ANZCAAnnualConference) for more
speaker announcements and further details on the conference.
Please note the deadline of Friday, 27 February for the submission of full
papers, abstracts for oral-only presentations and panel proposals.

All enquiries should be sent through the web page or to
(anzca2015 /at/ canterbury.ac.nz).

See you in Queenstown!

Donald Matheson and Michael Bourk, co-organisers
University of Canterbury and University of Otago
(donald.matheson /at/ canterbury.ac.nz)
(michael.bour /at/ otago.ac.nz)



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