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[ecrea] Call for Paper - questioning locality (iComicos) 2016, Yogyakarta-Indonesia

Sat May 14 10:21:06 GMT 2016




International Conference on Media, Communications, and Sociology (iCOMICOS)
Questioning Locality: Community, Movement, and Global Challenge
18-19 November 2016
Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce The International Conference on Media, Communications, and Sociology (iCOMICOS) to be held at Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, on 18-19 November 2016, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The Organizing Committee cordially invites you to submit papers. Below is a copy of the Call for Papers and information regarding the conference. More details on the conference, including keynote speakers, will be posted on our webpage at http://comicos.uajy.ac.id As the conference organizing committee, we look forward to your participation in this conference.

Call for Papers
Revolution in information and communication technologies not only triggers global responses but also drives local movements. According to Konieczy (2012), “Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have empowered non-state social actors, notably, social movements. Mass email campaigns, blogs, audio-and video-variants (the podcasts and the videocasts), social networks like Facebook and MySpace, and other tools, such as Twitter, are increasingly popular among the movements and their activists.” Consequently, changes are unavoidable for those who live in big cities as well as in rural areas.

Numerous studies have shown the impacts of information and communication technologies to society. Positively, those who have never had access to information now have a chance to move and act beyond their geographical and socio-cultural borders. Individuals and organizations are now embracing social media as a campaign tool. The survey by the One World Foundation, as quoted by Ambardi (2014), showed that Facebook was used by 76% civil society groups.

However, this phenomenon then leads to a paradox. It has a potential to widen up the reach of local wisdom but it also challenges the locality to survive from any influences that come from any part of the world. The global issues have now become local and the locality has the chance to move beyond borders. The distinct between global and local is now being contested. Therefore, we need to question: how far has the locality spanned and mingled amidst the rapid speed of changes in this so-called borderless era?

The International Conference on Media, Communication and Sociology (iCOMICOS) aims to explore any possible answers of this question. In 2016, to expand its coverage, the iCOMICOS will be conducted as an international conference involving international speakers from different countries and inviting scholars, practitioners, academics, students and others who are interested in the topic from all over the world.

Sub Themes
iComicos 2016 covers, but not limited to, the following topics:
Media praxis
Journalism revolution
Creative marketing communications
Customized stakeholder engagement
Community based business
Innovative business communication
Information policy & ethics revisited

Deadlines
The deadline for submission of abstracts is on 30 June 2016.
Notification of acceptance is on 15 July 2016.
Full conference papers are to be submitted by 15 September 2016.

Guidelines for Abstracts
Abstracts should be maximum 300 words in length.
All abstract submissions must be made via iCOMICOS 2016 Website at http://comicos.uajy.ac.id/
Abstract submissions via email will not be accepted.
For further information, please consult iCOMICOS 2016 Committee by email at (comicosuajy /at/ gmail.com)

Criteria for Evaluation
Submitted abstracts will generally be evaluated on the basis of theoretical contribution, methods, quality of writing, literature review, relevance to the sub themes, originality and significance.

https://comicos.uajy.ac.id/
https://comicos.uajy.ac.id/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CfP-ICOMICOS-UAJY-2016.pdf

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