[Mediaresearchhub-News] Upcoming Media Policy Research Events and News

Thu Mar 1 01:39:19 EST 2007

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below a list of upcoming events and other news  
announcements relevant to media policy research that we thought you  
would be interested in:

1.  University of Westminster Doctoral Studentships, Applications due  
March 9

2.  "Believin’ the Media" : Analysis of Faith and Media:  
Representation and Communication Strategy, April 26-27

3. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Call for Papers

4. 7th Annual Global Fusion Conference "Contested Intersections:  
publics, movements, institutions," September 7-9

---------------------------------

1. University of Westminster Doctoral Studentships
Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI)
Harrow Campus

The Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) at the  
University of Westminster in London is currently looking to submit  
candidates for the ESRC Doctoral Competition scheme 2007.

CAMRI is one of the UK's leading research centres (RAE 5, 1992, 1996,  
2001), and has an international reputation in media policy and  
economics, media history, media audiences and diasporic cultural  
politics. The Institute plays the leading role in the University's  
China Media Centre, and is developing work on media in the Arab  
world, and globalisation. CAMRI is in the Department of Journalism  
and Mass Communication, which runs the UK's oldest degree in media  
studies, a suite of Master's programmes and an established doctoral  
programme.

Applications are invited from prospective students with research  
proposals in the above areas. The Institute is part of the School of  
Media, Art and Design. Information about the School and its work is  
available at: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad

Please send your research proposal and a CV to  
E.Spindler at westminster.ac.uk at the School of Media Arts and Design  
research office

Closing date for receipt of applications: 9th March 2007

---------------------------------

2.  International Conference "Believin’ the Media" : Analysis of  
Faith and Media: Representation and Communication Strategy
April 26th – 27th 2007
Congress Centre Elzenveld  Lange Gasthuisstraat 45  b-2000 Antwerpen

On the 26th and 27th of April 2007, UCSIA will organise an  
international conference, “Believin’ the Media, Analysis of Faith and  
Media: Representation and Communication Strategy”, in which the  
problematic relation between faith and media is considered to be the  
core issue. Whereas the first day is focused on the analysis of the  
relation between faith and media, the second day is devoted to case  
studies and possible communication strategies. Next to the several  
academic speakers, like Marc Hooghe, professor of political science  
at the University of Leuven; Stewart Hoover, director of the Centre  
for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado; Khaled  
Hroub, journalist form Al-Jazeera; and Franz-Jozef Eilers, advisor of  
the Pontifical Counsel for Social Communication, also the Belgian  
Cardinal Godfried Danneels will disclose his view on the relation  
between Church and media in Belgium within the context of the  
presence of Christians in a secularised media world. Main topics will  
be the language of media and the language of faith, the analysis of  
the portrayal of contemporary religion in mass media, Church and  
social communication…

The conference will take place in the conference centre Elzenveld in  
Antwerp.

To download a copy of the folder click here: http:// 
www.faithandmedia.be/files/Believin'_the_Media_e.pdf

---------------------------------

3. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture Call for Papers
Volume 5, Number 1, March 2008
Community Radio. Networks, identities and experiences.

The growing interest in community media research and practice in the  
last decade has been reflected by the increase in academic  
publications and in the number
of broadcasting stations. Both scholars and practitioners have  
emphasized the role of community broadcasting as either an  
alternative or complementary sector
to public and commercial stations and as a tool for enacting  
citizenship on a daily basis, 'giving voice to the voiceless',  
empowering marginalised groups
and regenerating communities.

At the same time, technological changes in production processes, a  
wider availability of affordable digital technologies and a growing  
use of internet as a platform for broadcasting, have permitted an  
exponential increase in the numbers of web-based broadcasters,  
communicative tools for communities of interest and the exchange of  
content among radio stations across the world, often linking local  
issues to wider global social and political concerns.

Nevertheless, the influence of mainstream broadcasters on media  
policymaking and regulation, coupled with the organisational  
challenges often faced by community
groups and their representative bodies, have often resulted in  
legislation that still limits the communicative potential of  
community radio and its contribution to social change, access,  
participation and representation in the media.

WPCC is looking for original, research-based papers that will  
contribute to broaden the theoretical and empirical perspectives in  
community radio from a range of disciplinary approaches. Approaches  
in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, as well as in the wider  
fields of the humanities, social and applied sciences.

WPCC welcomes analyses of local, regional and national case studies,  
and international comparative research, as well as contributions on  
policy-making and regulation for community radio.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Media Theory, Radio Theory and Community Radio;
* Community Radio as a tool for encouraging democratic participation  
and activism and access to local public spheres.
* Community Radio as a tool for development and social change; for  
promoting and preserving local identities and local cultures; giving  
voice to ethnic minorities, diasporic groups and refugees; and  
regenerating communities;
* International/National Policy and Regulation of Community Radio;
* Community Radio organization, decisional processes and democratic  
structures;
* Audience and reception studies;
* Transnational networks, infrastructures and institutions developing  
community radio practices
* Community radio and media literacy
* University, College, School and Student Radio

Applicants may submit abstracts of no more than 200 words to the  
Issue's Editor Salvatore Scifo at scifos at westminster.ac.uk  The  
deadline for the submission of
abstracts is Friday 1st June 2007. Submission of articles will be by  
Wednesday 31st October 2007.

Further information, as well as previous issues of WPCC, can be  
downloaded by visiting the journal's website at: http:// 
www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-880

---------------------------------

4. 7th Annual Global Fusion Conference "Contested Intersections:  
publics, movements, institutions"

Sheraton Westport Hotel St Louis, Missouri

Friday 2pm September 7th to Sunday midday September 9th

This year's conference theme is the interface between media research,  
media arts, media professions and media activism. As usual, an  
international focus will be evident. Proposals for conference panels  
and papers are encouraged to focus within this area, but in principle  
may be on any communication-related topic.

Panel proposals are due by February 28 to downing.john at gmail.com.  
Include up to 500 words abstract; plus names, affiliations, email  
addresses and telephone numbers of all panelists; plus a copy of an  
email from each panelist signifying commitment to participate. Paper  
proposals are due by April 30 to downing.john at gmail.com  
<mailto:jdowning at siu.edu> . Abstracts of up to 250 words; plus name 
(s), affiliations, email addresses and telephone number(s) of author 
(s). More information will be posted at intervals on the Southern  
Illinois University, Carbondale, Global Media Research Center site:  
www.gmrc.siu.edu <mailto:jdowning at siu.edu> .

AN INTERNATIONAL/INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE

The Purpose of the Global Fusion Conference Series is to promote  
academic excellence in international-intercultural communications  
studies worldwide. These conferences bring together scholars and  
professionals interested in mass communications, journalism,  
comparative broadcasting, diplomacy, transnational communication,  
advertising, new technology, media economics and privatization,  
cultural effects, visual communication, media and international law,  
and global dialogues in search of peace.

AWARDS

Cash prizes: $200 and $150 awarded to competition winners (one  
faculty and one graduate student), and top papers will be published  
in the Global Media Journal,  the official journal of the conference  
series. The peer-reviewed paper competition is conducted by members  
of the International Communication Division of AEJMC, Intercultural  
Development Division of ICA, and the International Division of BEA.

GLOBAL FUSION CONSORTIUM SPONSORS

The Global Fusion Conference series is sponsored by participating  
universities of the Global Fusion Consortium:

OHIO UNIVERSITY College of Communication <http:// 
www.commcoll.ohiou.edu/> , Dr. Gregory J. Shepherd, Dean
PURDUE UNIVERSITY-CALUMET School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences  
<http://www.calumet.purdue.edu/lass/> , Dr. Daniel Dunn, Dean
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY College of Mass Communication & Media  
Arts <http://mcma.siu.edu/> , Dr. Manjunath Pendakur, Dean
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS College of Communication <http:// 
communication.utexas.edu/> , Dr. Roderick P. Hart, Dean

STEERING COMMITTEE
Members of the GFC Steering Committee are:  Professors Joe Straubhaar  
(Texas), Drew McDaniel (Ohio) Manju Pendakur (SIU), and Yahya  
Kamalipour (Purdue Cal)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ANJALI MONTEIRO to be Main Keynote Speaker at 2007 Global Fusion  
conference, St Louis, Friday September 7 - Sunday September 9

Dr Anjali Monteiro is a documentary film-maker and university  
professor of media studies at the Centre for Media and Cultural  
Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, to which she has  
been attached since 1983. Currently she is a Fulbright Visiting  
Scholar in the Center for South Asian Studies at Berkeley. She has  
also been attached to the University of Western Sydney and has been a  
visiting scholar at the University of Bergen, Norway.

She has been a visiting faculty member at many leading Indian  
university campuses, including the Indian Institute of Technology,  
Mumbai; the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai; the National  
Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and the Mudra Institute of  
Communication Arts, Ahmedabad.

Her documentaries, jointly produced and directed with her colleague  
and spouse, K.P. Jayasankar, have won a whole series of national and  
international awards. They include Pani Panchayat (1986); Lage Jiva  
Ghar Ghar: A Document on Women and Shelter (1990); The Plot Thickens  
(1993); Identity - The Construction of Selfhood (1994); Odhni - A  
Collective Exploration of Our Selves, Our Bodies (1993); Kahankar:  
Ahankar [Story Maker: Story Taker] (1995); YCP 1997 [voices from  
Yerawada Central Prison, Pune]; Jungle Tales: Surviving Development  
in Uttara Kannada (1999); Saacha [The Loom] (2001); Naata: The Bond  
[on communal harmony] (2003); SheWrite (2005) and Gender Unpack (2006).

She is active in Films for Freedom, a campaign of over 250  
documentary filmmakers opposing censorship in India.

Her current teaching focuses on television texts and audiences,  
critical analysis of development communication, and documentary film.

Her published research, mostly authored with various colleagues,  
addresses issues of media education, development, documentary film,  
audiences and spectatorship, and gender.

The SIUC organizing committee (John Downing, Walter Jaehnig, Sarah  
Kanouse, Jyotsna Kapur, Cinzia Padovani, Jake Podber, Deborah Tudor)  
is extremely pleased that Dr Anjali Monteiro has agreed to keynote  
Global Fusion this year. Her blend of creative artistry, teaching,  
research, and engagement with social issues, means she can bring to  
bear on our discussions a rich experience of the majority of zones of  
media activity highlighted in this year's conference theme. We are  
delighted to welcome her.

Her keynote address will be as follows: "Spaces for Dialogue-  
Rethinking Critical Media Praxis in India" Anjali Monteiro

This presentation is a reflection on what it means for 'alternative'  
media praxis to engage with the new sites of contestation that have  
emerged in the wake of new media and communication technologies in an  
India that is neo-liberal, market-oriented and rapidly globalising.  
Negotiating this treacherous and complex cultural terrain involves  
questioning two-dimensional notions of power, where the activist/ 
practitioner intervenes 'on behalf of' the oppressed. It means  
questioning the safe space where one stands. It means looking at  
media institutions, discourses and audiences not as seamless,  
consistent entities but as contradictory spaces, which offer  
possibilities for a foot in the door. The presentation will discuss  
issues such as impact, censorship and new modes of networking and  
distribution.

Paul D. Miller, "Rhythm Science"

Paul D. Miller's award winning Rhythm Science collection of essays  
(MIT Press, 2004) - named among the books of the year by The Guardian  
(UK) - explores the hidden connections between collage based  
aesthetics and what Miller likes to call the "politics of  
perception". His lectures unpack some of the issues that modern  
artists face: intellectual property, ownership of ideas, and above  
all, how art navigates the complex culture of digital media. Miller's  
discussion will focus on how "sound" acts as an invisible theater  
where the distinction between sound art, information, and digital  
production methods are viewed as tools for the creative spirit of the  
artist in a world that is rapidly becoming more and more connected in  
unexpected and sometimes astonishing ways. Miller's lecture will be  
an hour, and is accompanied by his use of many historic texts, rare  
audio recordings and films to demonstrate the complex relationship  
between text and art in a multimedia context.

Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, is a conceptual  
artist, writer, and musician working in New York City. A writer for  
numerous publications, Miller is Co-Publisher of the respected multi- 
cultural magazine A Gathering of the Tribes, and was the first Editor- 
At-Large of the cutting edge digital media magazine Artbyte: The  
Magazine of Digital Culture. His artwork has appeared in a wide  
variety of contexts including the Whitney Biennial; the Venice  
Biennale for Architecture (year 2000); the Ludwig Museum in Cologne,  
Germany; the Kunsthalle, Vienna; the Andy Warhol Museum in  
Pittsburgh; and a host of other museums and galleries.

Miller is most well known under the moniker of his "constructed  
persona". Under that guise, Miller has performed extensively  
throughout the world. He has recorded a huge volume of music and has  
collaborated with pre-eminent musicians and composers such as Iannis  
Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Butch Morris, Kool Keith aka Doctor  
Octagon, Killa Priest from Wu-Tang Clan, Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore  
from Sonic Youth. Miller has remixed records by artists ranging from  
Metallica to Steve Reich. His own records include Riddim Warfare  
(Outpost/Geffen); Songs of a Dead Dreamer, The Viral Sonata, and  
Synthetic Fury (all on Asphodel); and Necropolis (Knitting Factory  
Works), His latest CD is Drums of Death, with Dave Lombardo of  
Slayer, Chuck D. of Public Enemy and other notable collaborators.  
Other recent productions are "Optometry" (Thirsty Ear Records),  
featuring jazz pianist Matthew Shipp and his band; "Dubtometry", a  
remix of the same, with collaborators Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mad  
Professor; and "Celestial Mechanix", a remix of material from Thirsty  
Ear Records.

In addition to a regular schedule of DJ'ing, lecturing, and producing  
music, Miller continues to perform "DJ Spooky's Rebirth Of a Nation"  
at theaters around the world. The piece was first commissioned by the  
Lincoln Center Festival, the Spoleto Festival USA, the Vienna  
Festival and the Festival D'Automne in Paris. The DVD of "Rebirth Of  
a Nation" is set for release by Starz Media in November 2007. His  
website: www.djspooky.com <http://www.djspooky.com/>

About this Email Bulletin

This email news bulletin is brought to you by the Necessary Knowledge  
for a Democratic Public Sphere a program intended to strengthen  
connections between media research and media reform, in the U.S. and  
around the world.  A program of the Social Science Research Council  
in partnership with the Center for International Media Action and the  
Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University.   
Funding provided by the Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom Program of  
the Ford Foundation. The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is a  
non-profit, New York-based organization that brings research to bear  
on a wide range of issues of public concern, from disaster relief, to  
Internet governance, to electoral reform. For more information or to  
unsubscribe from this list, email mediahub at ssrc.org.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://listserve.ssrc.org/pipermail/mediaresearchhub-news/attachments/20070301/e64110e6/attachment-0001.html 