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MediAsia 2011 - The Second Asian Conference on
Media and Mass Communication 4 to 6 November 2011 Osaka, Japan International Interdisciplinary conference organized by IAFOR and its global partners. Programme Adviser: Prof. Gary Swanson, University of Northern Colorado. CFP: August 1, 2011. The International Academic Forum, in conjunction with its global partners, is pleased to announce the second Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication 2011, to be held in Osaka, Japan, from November 2010. MediAsia 2011 is an international interdisciplinary conference that encourages academics and professionals working in the domains of media and mass communication to come together in Osaka this autumn. Last year, more than 100 academics and practitioners from more than 25 countries met in Osaka at the inaugural MediAsia event in a remarkable cross-cutural and interdisciplinary discussion. This year we will again encourage academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum encouraging lively but respectful dialogue. This international conference will bring together a number of university scholars working throughout Japan, Asia, and beyond to share ideas. MediAsia 2011 will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education. Academics working in Japan and Asia will be encouraged to forge working relationships with each other, as well as with colleagues from Europe and the US, facilitating partnerships across borders. We hope to see you in Osaka in the fall. Conference Themes Special Theme 1: New Horizons The media industry is at a crossroads in many respects, as it seeks to come to terms with developments in technology that simultaneously allow new heights of journalistic excellence to be reached, as well as the emergence of more worrying trends. The unparalleled opportunities of today's connected world have created a new set of challenges that need to be met, including questions of power and responsibility, editorial accountability, and the erosion of more traditional income streams. How these challenges and opportunities are confronted will shape the future of the media industry. This theme invites reflection upon the future of the media, and continues the discussion from last year's 'Brave New World Theme' Special Theme 2: Globalization and Internationalization Media organizations across the world are becoming increasingly socially, ethnically and culturally diverse, both as a consequence of globalization and in response to internationalization. What are the positive and negative effects of these processes? How can the strangely powerful and yet rhetorically ambiguous concepts of globalization and internationalization exert benign and normative influences on the media industry, and how can they be used to more detrimental and even sinister effect? Special Theme 3: Power without Responsibility It is the thirtieth anniversary of James Curran and Jean Seaton's seminal study of the press and broadcasting, Power without responsibility. The origin of the books title is not 1981 however, but 50 years earlier and British politician Stanley Baldwin, in perhaps the most eloquent rendering of the friction felt between those who are elected, and those who hold them accountable, but frequently remain unaccountable themselves. 80 years on and as technological innovations have created an ever growing media net, and where the lines between users and consumers become increasingly blurred, questions of media accountability remain a constant source of discussion. The Conference themes are designed to inspire invitations of submissions that approach these topics from a variety of perspectives and approaches. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Media and Mass Communication, including: Advertising Communication Technology and Digital Media Communication Theory and Methodology Critical and Cultural Studies, Gender and Communication Disaster Coverage in the Media Film History International Communication Journalism Research and Education Law and Policy Magazine Media Ethics Mass Communication, Society and Globalization Media, Sport and the Olympics Media Education Research Media Management and Economics Newspaper New Technologies in Event Coverage (Backpack Journalism, Cellphones, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) Political Communication and Satire Public Relations Radio-TV journalism Social Media Scholastic journalism Visual Communication Enquiries: mediasia@iafor.org Web address: http://mediasia.iafor.org Sponsored by: The International Academic Forum |
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