[ecrea] CFP - new media and social change in the arab and muslim world

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>CAMMROs 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
>'NEW MEDIA AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE ARAB AND MUSLIM WORLD'
>Date:  Monday 16th June 2008
>Venue: Kings College, The Strand Campus,
>University of London, UK
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>Satellite TV and the internet have transformed the media landscape in the
>Arab and Muslim world. Although their development is a recent phenomenon,
>new media have not only opened up new opportunities for journalism but
>also empowered audiences and civil society organisations with
>unprecedented platforms for free expression and social activism. New
>technologies are said to have reinvigorated a sense of an Arab
>transnational public sphere and a pan-Arab market; brought together the
>concerns of Arab audiences and united a region geographically vast. The
>possible consequences of such rapid developments on social and political
>change in the region are not hard to imagine, hence attempts to censor
>information is still rampant in many parts of the Arab and Muslim
>countries.The recent charter issued by the Arab Leagues Ministers of
>Information titled Principles for Regulating Satellite TV in the Arab
>World is a case in point.
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>This conference aims to map out the role of new media in the perceived
>social changes in that part of the world. It looks at how audiences,
>users, civil society organisations, political/social groups have
>understood and found in these technologies the right tools and strategies
>to power their work sustainably.
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>Conference themes:
>This conference will cover (but not necessarily limited to) the following
>areas of enquiry:
>- Blogging and bloggers as citizen journalists; are bloggers making a
>social difference?
>- Satellite TV and the internet as cites of resistance/alternative media
>or sets of censored national enclosures
>-E-campaigning and political/social groups
>- How are  activists/the youth interacting with platforms like Youtube,
>Myspace, Flicker, Faithtube, Facebook and Blogging to pursue
>their objectives?
>- The internet, development and civil society in the Arab and Muslim world
>- Challenges of the Internet in war zones
>- The new media and women empowerment in the region.
>- Youth subcultures and new media, what is going on?
>- In the absence of real democracy in some parts of the Arab and Muslim
>world is new media creating a new form of social/political capital:
>e-democracy?
>- What functions are the internet and satellite TV playing in mobilising
>public opinion?
>- What expectations and perceptions are there regarding changes in
>cultural and political values?
>- Reality TV and the new publics, are we witnessing further tabloidisation
>of Arab  media or new forms of social interaction?
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>Call for submissions:
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>Abstracts of no more than 300 words, and a short bio should be submitted
>by the 5th March 2008. Papers should reflect one or more of the conference
>themes mentioned above. Particularly welcome are papers based on empirical
>work and a clear research method (s). Deadline for full papers is 15th May
>2008.
>Completed papers will be welcomed for submission to the academic and
>peer-reviewed JOURNAL OF ARAB & MUSLIM MEDIA RESEARCH
>http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journalissues.php?issn=17519411&v=1&i=1
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>Please send all submissions and enquiries to Khalil Agha (conference
>organizer), E-mail: (info /at/ cammro.com) ; www.cammro.com ;
>Tel: +44 (0) 7899 878485

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
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