IAMCR
23-25 July, 2007
UNESCO, Paris (France)
Media, Communication, Information:
Celebrating 50 Years of Theories and Practices
Deadline extended to 15 February 2007
These last fifty years have seen a number of theoretical evolutions and practical advances in the domains which relate media to the inter-or multi-disciplinary field of information and communication. Some of them have emanated from European and Western research centres, others from diverse regions of the world scientific community. These various bodies of research have supplied analytical tools that cover the whole range of the field of media, information and communication, in a global perspective: from the production and the international circulation of news and data, images and texts, to their reception, by a wide range of publics. They have critically examined such issues as public space and democracy, actor networks and agency or technological mediation and its modalities.
New theoretical spaces of development and applications are also
emerging, apparent in a number of pioneering works, with original and
innovative approaches. Issues such as internet governance and
co-regulation of the media resonate with questions on diasporic
publics, cultural and trans-cultural diversities. The theoretical
contributions of other fields, such as economics, cognition, politics,
or urban studies, to name a few, have been facilitating new readings of
semiotic processes and media representations, and fostering a deeper
understanding of the tensions between genres and gender, minorities and
communities, “youth” cultures and subcultures, worldwide. The
modifications of the market and the political economy of the media in
the context of globalization have cast in new perspectives such issues
as cultural goods and services, e-learning industries and media
literacies, not to mention sustainable development alternatives via
media and new technologies for information and communication.
These
developments, old and new, coincide with the areas of inquiry and the
directions for research that IAMCR has fully embraced over the past
fifty years. The abstracts and papers submitted to the various sections
of IAMCR for the 2007 conference will need to reflect these tendencies
while intersecting with their dominant thematic strand such as media
history, political communication, political economy, participatory
communication, media education, information and ICT policy, etc.
Working groups are encouraged to organize joint sessions with the
sections to better ensure that their emerging trends and perspectives
can be accommodated.
The abstracts and papers will also need
to make innovative connections between theory and practice, notably by
underlining the contribution of empirical work to research and by
proposing original methodologies, protocols and appropriate indicators.
Perspectives and trends for the future should also be delineated, so as
to provide new paths for investigation by IAMCR members in the next 50
years.
Rules for Paper Submission: You may submit the
same abstract or paper to ONE section only. You may submit different
papers to different sections or, as the case may be, different papers
to the same section. If we find the same paper submitted to different
sections or working groups, we will work with the organisers of the
conference to withdraw the paper so that it is (if accepted) presented
in only ONE section/working group. Abstracts (500 words at most) must
be sent to the section heads and working group chairs by 15 February
2007 (extended deadline). The final decisions will be notified by March 1st 2007.
Contact:
Divina Frau-Meigs
Local Organization
Ole Prehn
IAMCR Secretariat