General information
Ten minutes is reserved for each paper presentation. For those
sessions with discussants, 10 minutes is reserved for comments by these
persons. Between 5 and 10 minutes is available for general discussion,
depending on the time taken by authors presenting papers and
discussants. Meeting rooms are to be announced later.
Monday, 14.30 - 15.30
Session 1: Community Media and Social Movements
Chair: Nicholas Jankowski
Discussant: Laura Stein
John Downey & Natalie Fenton
New Social Movements, Counter Public Spheres and Global Modernity
Dorothy Kidd
The Independent Media Center Movement
Melissa Wall
Title: The Battle in Seattle: Constructing Movement Identities
Tina Andersen Huey
The Globalizing Community Against Globalization: Ideological Sympathy and Website Linking Patterns in the Case of Food Movements
Monday, 16.00 - 17.45
Session 2: Ethnicity and Community Media
Chair: Donald Browne
Discussant: John Downing
Panel: New World for the Old World: Contemporary Challenges Confronting Ethnic Media
(Not attending)
Achal Mehra
Inside Out: Asian Indian Media in the United States
Shekhar Deshpande (NOT ATTENDING)
Immigrants in a Bi-polar World: Film and Newspapers in Trinidad.
Hamdan Adnan (NOT ATTENDING)
The Struggles of Ethnic Media in Malaysia and Singapore
Leïla Ben Amor Mathieu
Ethnic Televisions and their Discourses on Identity. Symbolical Struggles at Prime Time. Case studies in Wales, Martinique and the United States
Panel: Ethnic Minorities and their Media: Constructing Communities Beyond Boundaries
Myria Georgiou
Mapping Minority Media in the EU: Mapping Participation in Communities Beyond a Bounded Europe
Nick Mai
The Albanian Diaspora-on-the-Making: Media, Transnational Identities and Migration
Mirca Madianou
'Being both a Turk and a Greek': Rethinking Identities, Boundaries and the Role of the Media
Leen d'Haenens, Cindy van Summeren, Madelon Kokhuis, Hans Beentjes
Ownership and Use of 'Old' and 'New' Media among Ethnic Minority Youth in the Netherlands. The Role of Ethnic-Cultural Position
Tuesday, 9.00 - 10.30
Session 3: Joint Session with PCR: Community Media and Social Action: New Inroads
Chair: Per Jauert
Discussant: Leen d'Haenens
Papers from Community Communication Section
Katerina Diamandaki Panou
Online Communities: New Spaces and Media for Cooperation and Collective Knowledge
David K. Dunaway
Pacifica Radio and Community Broadcasting in the U.S.
DeeDee Halleck
Burn!ing Issues in Communication Theory: a case study of internet freespeech within the university
Papers from Participatory Communication Research Section
Rosalind Bresnahan
Politics and Participatory Media during the Transition to Democracy in Chile 1990-2000: The Decline of Grass Roots Radio and Video.
Ullamaija Kivikuru
Different Means, Similar Goals, Long Way to Go: Two Attempts to Reach Grassroots Lifeworlds: ERNO Television Exchange in the Balkans and Democracy Radio in South Africa
Kwasi Ansu-Kyermeh
Two-way broadcasting and the power of participation
Tuesday, 11.00 - 13.00
Session 4: Communities of Interest and Locality
Chair: John Hochheimer (Not Attending)
Discussant: Elinor Rennie
Gustavo Cimadevilla (Not Attending)
Prensa, mercado y artificialización ambiental/ Press, market, and environmental constructions: How the Rural Turns into the Market
Madori Nasu & Koichi Iwabuchi
Cultural Citizenship of 'Here and There': Multicultural Public Sphere and Transnational Media Consumption of Japanese-Peruvians in Japan.
K.K. Jayan
Coffee shops as centers of social communication
Gisele Nussbaumer Marchiori
The Gay Communities in Cyberspace
Stephen Hocker
Springer is Burning: Ball Culture and Transgender Identity on Television Talk Shows
Ines Gabel
The Community Paper as a Tool for Constructing Collective Identity:
The Case of the Jewish Settlers' Paper in the West Bank
Maria Corominas Piulats
Local Communication in Catalonia. New Trends, New Challenges
Renee van Os & Nicholas W. Jankowski
Public Discourse in a Digital Debate: A Case Study of Digital Democracy in the City of Hoogeveen
Kwasi Ansu-Kyermeh
One Nation, Many Tongues
Claudia Schmidt
European integration as a challenge to regional television
Tuesday, 14.30 - 15.30
Session 5: Community Media: Policy and Practice
Chair: Nick Cauldry Discussant: Peter Lewis Sascha Costanza-Chock
Mapping the Repertoire of Electronic Contention
Per Jauert and Ole Prehn
State subsidies - added value?
Eryl Price-Davies
Defining "community radio"- an international perspective
Elinor Rennie
Community Media: Fenced Off or Walled Out? Finding a Space for Community in the New Media Environment
Tuesday, 16.00 - 17.45 (90 min; last 30 minutes reserved for Section business meeting)
Session 6: Alternative Media and the Changing Agenda of Media Research
Chair: Chris Atton (Napier University, Scotland)
Discussant: Dorothy Kidd (University of San Francisco, USA)
Chris Atton (Napier University, Scotland)
Mainstreaming the Alternative, 'Alternativising' the Mainstream? Flow and Counter-flow in News Cultures and New Social Movements
Nick Couldry (London School of Economics, UK)
Alternative Media and the Forgotten "Digital Divide"
John Downing (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Audiences and readers of radical media: the absent lure of the virtually unknown
Clemencia Rodriguez (Oklahoma University, USA)
The Voice of the Angel: Luce Irigaray and Citizens' Media
Lorna Roth (Concordia University, Canada)
The Colour Balance Project: Preliminary Reflections on its Contribution to Alternative Media Theory
Business meeting: last 30 minutes of session
Chair: Nicholas Jankowski with Per Jauert and Laura Stein
Poster Session
Arul Aram
Radio by the community, for the community
Joshis - Ila and Subhash
Multi Prong Approach: Intra and Intercultural Communication.
Josep Lluís Gómez Mompart
Prensa en español en Nueva York: el periodismo como identidad hispana. New York Spanish Press: Journalism as Hispanic Identity
Ricardo Pinto Carvalheiro
Media Communication and the Redefinition of Frontiers and Cultural Identities
Joao Kulcsar
The Use of Photography as a Tool to Visual Literacy
Josep Angel Guimera Orts
From Mesocommunication to Proximity Media
Antoni Castells Talens
Operationalizing Identity in Ethnic Minority Media: Five Indicators in a Maya Radio Station of the Yucatan
Tuesday, 9.00 - 10.30
Joint Session PCR & CC: Community Communication for Development
Chair: Tom Jacobson
Discussant: Jan Servaes
Robert White
Empowerment: Moving from the micro to the macro level
Guy Bessette
A Capacity-Building And Networking Program In Participatory Development Communication
T. R. Gopalakrishnan
Participatory Research Approaches and Poverty Alleviation Programs: An Exploratory Study of Micro-Finance Initiatives in India
(Not attending)
John L. Hochheimer
The Education of Meaning and Community Media Praxis: Critical Pedagogy and the Human Spirit
(Not attending)
Birgitte Jallov
Creating Sustainable Community Radio Stations - a major challenge!
Peter M. Lewis,
Whose experience counts? Evaluating participatory media