[Commlist] Call for papers/presentations: Due February 15 | Conference on Citizen and Community Media

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International Conference on Citizen and Community Media

Call for Papers & Presentations

Thursday 6 June to Friday 7 June 2019 at Deakin Downtown, Melbourne, 
Australia

Hosted by Deakin University, Australia; Supported by Australia India 
Council Grant & Community Broadcasting Association of Australia

Australian media partners – Geelong FM 94.7 (the Pulse) & Gippsland FM 104.7

International media partners – Ideosync Media Combine, CoMedialab.in, 
Radio Active CR 90.4 MHZ (Jain University)

Individual and panel abstracts due: 15 February 2019

Main Theme: Enhancing Community Media Enterprise

New media has provided citizens and communities with new opportunities 
to share information and news. Similar to traditional news media, 
community media enterprises have needed to adapt to utilise new 
technologies, such as streaming services, social media and mobile apps. 
The growth of citizen journalism also provides a new perspective on how 
information may be obtained and shared by individuals and in local 
communities. In recent years, there has been a renewed engagement with 
citizen and community media enterprises to provide a platform to local 
voices, including those of youth, women, seniors, culturally and 
linguistically diverse groups and other marginalised groups in society. 
New media technologies have been a blessing in disguise, imposing a cost 
on traditional community broadcasting enterprises, and yet removing 
entry barriers for citizens/individuals to become part of the community 
media landscape.

This conference explores how citizen and community media enterprises can 
be enhanced and their capabilities improved through new technologies, 
policies, infrastructures and collaborations, and tackling any 
hinderances to such innovation. The conference also provides a space for 
sharing of experiences and knowledge in citizen and community media 
enterprises across national borders.

We invite panels and papers that consider questions about 
capacity-building and knowledge-sharing in citizen and community media 
enterprises. For instance: Why community media? What hinders community 
media enterprises fully utilising new media technologies? What 
collaborations are facilitated by new media technologies to contribute 
towards sustaining community media enterprises? How can government 
policies and supported infrastructures help community media? What 
efforts are needed to enhance technological skills among participants to 
further broaden the entry of new voices as community media makers and 
broadcasters? What kind of innovation and collaborations do new 
technologies enable? The conference welcomes submissions from a broad 
range of fields, including journalism, media, culture, communication, 
sociology, politics and government policy, gender studies, religion, and 
more.

We invite abstracts for individual papers, or pre-constituted panels of 
four papers on any topic related to the conference theme. We are 
particularly interested in contributions from community media 
practitioners and scholars. The accepted abstracts will be published on 
the website and with the conference schedule.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• The role of community media
• The rise of citizen journalism
• Community news content and audiences
• Digital broadcasting
• Changing media technologies’ impact on the community media sector
• Social media as a community information source
• Citizen media training and collaborations
• Citizen media and mainstream media
• Community media innovations
• Community media governance and funding
• Media representation and capabilities of minority communities

Individual and panel abstracts submissions due by:  15 February 2019

Submit to:  Conference Convener, Dr Usha M. Rodrigues, 
(usha.rodrigues /at/ deakin.edu.au)

Individual extended abstracts: Between 400-and-500 words, plus a 40-word 
biography of each author. Each accepted presentation will be for 15 
minutes (equivalent of a 3000-word article)

Panel abstracts: Maximum 300-word overview, with 4 x 400-word extended 
abstract for each contribution plus 4 x 40-word biography, and contact 
details.

Notification of acceptance: 4 March 2019. Please note that the 
conference registration website and social media accounts will be 
available from late-February 2019 onwards.


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