[ecrea] CFP Conference "Media, Culture and Change across The Pacific"

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

“Media, Culture and Change across the Pacific: Perspectives from Asia,
Oceania and the Americas”
16-17 November 2015
Pontificia Universidad CatГіlica
Lima, Peru.
http://conferencia.pucp.edu.pe/media-practices/

As the �Pacific century’ gathers pace, important questions arise about
the media and communication dimensions of processes of social, economic
and cultural change currently under way across the vast Pacific region.
Ongoing negotiations around a controversial trade agreement affecting
40% of the world’s economic output, known as the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP), have added urgency to the need for greater
collaboration among Pacific scholars and researchers.
Although the interdisciplinary field of media and communication studies,
including the anthropology of media, is presently flourishing in this
part of the world, most research to date has taken place within national
or sub-regional scholarly networks. In addition, the North Atlantic
region maintains its central position within the field. As a result,
most East Asian scholars of media and communication still know little
about empirical and theoretical developments in the Americas,
Australasia or the Pacific islands – and vice versa.
The aim of this conference is to bring together media anthropologists
and other media and communication scholars and researchers from across
the region to share their current research, compare and contrast
findings, and discuss possible research collaborations and funding bids.
The conference will also serve to launch a new interdisciplinary
network: the *Trans-Pacific Media Research Network.*
We invite abstracts in English (max. 250 words) from media
anthropologists and other media and communication scholars conducting
research anywhere in the Pacific region, i.e. East and Southeast Asia,
Australasia, the Pacific islands, and Pacific countries in the Americas.
Abstracts can be based on local, national or transnational research.
Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
В·Regional and sub-regional media flows
В·Media theory beyond the North Atlantic
В·The geopolitics of media technologies in the Pacific
·Media ownership and �liberalisation’
В·Radio, television, and print media in the digital age
В·Social media and inter-generational relations
В·Media and social identity (e.g. gendered, religious, cultural)
В·The uses of digital media in disaster communication
В·Internet freedom and control in the post-Snowden era
В·New and old media for protest and civic engagement
В·Mobile phones for increasingly mobile lives and livelihoods
В·Historical perspectives on media and communication
The abstracts are to be submitted by *15 September 2015*.
Selected abstract authors will then be asked to submit full papers in
English (max. 6000 words) by *10 November 2015*.
The best papers will be published in an invited special issue of the
international journal /Media, Culture and Society /under the conference
theme of “Media, culture and change across the Pacific: perspectives
from Asia, Oceania and the Americas”
The keynote speakers will be:
John Postill (RMIT University, Melbourne)
Heather Horst (RMIT University, Melbourne)
Please send abstracts and questions to Raul Castro, Pontificia
Universidad CatГіlica
Lima, Peru, (_crcastro /at/ pucp.edu.pe) <mailto:(crcastro /at/ pucp.edu.pe)>_
A conference organized by the Master Program of Visual Anthropology -
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP).


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