Deadline now extended to 30th September 2009
MeCCSA 2010 Conference
Wednesday 6th  - Friday 8th  January 2010
MeCCSA is the UK subject association for those 
teaching and researching in Media, 
Communication and Cultural Studies. The 
organisation holds its next conference from 6th 
-8th January 2010, hosted by the Department of 
Media and Communications, London School of 
Economics and Political Science and held at 
LSE. It includes a reception and conference dinner at LSE.
In keeping with the commitment of LSE?s 
Department of Media and Communications to 
policy-relevance and to the highest ethical 
standards of practice in our field, the overall 
theme of the 2010 conference is Media, Communication, Policy and Practice.
? Delegate fees can be found here: 
<http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/MeCCSA/MeCCSA_Delegate_Fees.htm>http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/MeCCSA/MeCCSA_Delegate_Fees.htm
? Registration for the conference will open on 15th September 2009
Call for Abstracts
We invite papers, panels, presentations of 
practice and posters across the range of 
interests represented by the Association and 
its networks 
(<http://www.MeCCSA.org.uk>www.MeCCSA.org.uk). 
Some sessions will weave together practice and 
research and there will be separate screenings, 
in full, of this material.  Please submit 
online 
<http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/MeCCSA/>http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/MeCCSA/ 
by 30th September 2009.
Poster Competition
The MeCCSA Executive Committee is offering 
a  poster competition prize of £100.  The 
academic poster is highly valued by MeCCSA as 
an indicator of current research and there will 
be a good space set aside at the 2010 conference for this activity.
Competition for Best Paper on Art, Design and Media for Higher Education
The Art Design Media - Higher Education Academy 
Subject Centre (ADM-HEA) is offering a £500 
prize and publication for the best paper 
analysing key issues impacting on media, 
communications and cultural studies in higher education.
Competition for Best Paper on Media and Communications Policy
LSE's Department of Media and Communications is 
offering a £300 prize and publication in its 
Media@LSE Electronic Working Paper Series 
(subject to final revisions by the conference 
organisers), for the best paper addressing 
critical perspectives on key issues of policy 
relevance in a convergent media and communications industry.
Submission Procedures
Please submit online 
<http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/MeCCSA/>http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/MeCCSA/ 
by 30th September 2009.  Proposers will be 
notified of acceptance no later than 23rd October 2009.
Confirmed speakers:
   * Prof Tony Bennett, Western Sydney
   * Prof Georgina Born, Cambridge
   * Prof Paul du Gay, Warwick Business School
   * Prof Sylvia Harvey, Lincoln
   * Prof Adam Joinson, Bath
   * Dr Jason Lee, Derby
   * Prof Eileen Munro, LSE
   * Dr Kieron O?Hara, Southampton
   * Prof Charles Raab, Edinburgh
   * Ed Richards, Ofcom
   * Prof Karen Ross, Liverpool
   * Dr Katharine Sarikakis, Leeds
   * Prof Philip Schlesinger, Glasgow
   * Dr Gillian Youngs, Leicester
Please note the dates in your diary, we look 
forward to welcoming you to LSE!  We have 
attached a poster for your noticeboards.
LSE MeCCSA Organising Team
Department of Media and Communications | LSE | 
Houghton Street | London | WC2A 2AE
<mailto:(media.MeCCSAconference /at/ lse.ac.uk)>(media.MeCCSAconference /at/ lse.ac.uk)
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