[ecrea] ANZCA 2014 CFP

ANZCA 2014 Melbourne Call for papers

The Australian and New Zealand Communications Association’s annual 
conference will be held on 9-11 July, 2014 at Swinburne University in 
Melbourne Australia.

The conference theme for 2014 is: ‘The digital and the social: 
communication for inclusion and exchange’

With communication becoming increasingly ‘social’, there have been 
unprecedented opportunities for people to communicate across geographic, 
political and economic divides. Social media platforms reach across 
barriers of distance, time and culture to create a decentralised and 
increasingly interactive communications environment. At home, at play, 
and at work, social media is increasingly a part of our everyday lives.



The utopian vision is that these platforms satisfy diverse communication 
needs: they allow internet users to protest, to raise awareness of 
social issues, to publicise political actions, to unify minority voices 
and to create new media forms. However more recently critics have 
cautioned that social and digital media have also been used for 
surveillance, to stifle communication, to repress minorities and to 
ensure violent sanction against those who press for political or 
economic change.

The ANZCA Melbourne 2014 conference is focussed on social media, broadly 
defined, and the paradoxical nature of our ubiquitous communications 
environment. The conference recognises that while social media is 
reorganising the communications environment it is simultaneously giving 
rise to diverse and complex forms of social change. The conference also 
recognises the long and diverse histories of social media, which predate 
current Web 2.0 platforms.

We invite papers that examine how social media is influencing our 
understanding of social inclusion and exchange and what the implications 
are for communications and media. Topics may include, but are not 
limited to:

-the possibilities for inclusion across social divides using social and 
digital media

-challenges of social media in civic engagement and communications

-social media in organisational communication

-the ethics of digital and social communication

-the economic possibilities and challenges of digital participation

- advertising, marketing and PR dimensions of social media

-regulatory and governance debates

We also invite papers that explore the wider relationship between 
digitality and sociality at a conceptual level or via case studies of 
particular communication practices.

Abstracts and proposals should be sent to (anzca14 /at/ swin.edu.au) with the 
following information:

1.                       Title of presentation

2.                        Name(s) of presenter(s) and affiliations

3.                        Email address(es) of presenter(s)

4.                        Indicate clearly whether the paper is intended 
as a refereed or non-refereed paper

5.                        Abstracts should be between 200- 500 words



Presenters MUST submit their paper under ONE PRIMARY KEYWORD of the 
following list of keywords that best describes the abstract/paper:

Citizenship : Creativity/Creative Industries : Cultural Studies : 
Cross-cultural, interpersonal and intrapersonal communication : Cultural 
Politics (including ethnicity, multiculturalism, religion, etc.) : 
Community Media: 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) : Organisational communication (business, 
corporate, advertising): Pedagogy (media education, approaches, etc.) : 
Political and Government Communication : Public Relations : Sports  : 
Open stream

All original, unpublished papers presented or submitted to the ANZCA 
2014 conference will be eligible to be considered for the conference 
proceedings strictly via a double-blind review process.

Abstract submission deadlines

28 February 2014: Abstracts, Panel and Poster Proposals Due

4 April 2014: Acceptance Notification and instructions emailed

2 May 2014: Full Papers (Refereed) Due

30 May 2014: Early bird registration closes (at discounted rate)

25 July: Final papers due

For further information regarding this call for papers, please contact 
the ANZCA 2014 Conference Convener: Dr Diana Bossio (Swinburne 
University, Faculty of Life and Social Sciences) via email: 
(anzca.2014 /at/ swin.edu.au)





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