International Conference

Matters of Journalism: Understanding Professional Challenges and Dilemmas

Gdańsk, September 14 – 15,  2012

The Polish Communication Association and the Faculty of  Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism at the University of Gdańsk invite paper and panel proposals for the international conference entitled “Matters of Journalism: Understanding Professional Challenges and Dilemmas” which will take place in Gdańsk on September 14 – 15,  2012 at the University of Gdańsk.

The conference is sponsored by the ECREA, the Journalism Studies Section of the ECREA and the Journalism Studies Division of the ICA.

Rationale

Journalism has experienced several transformation periods so far: every new medium brought new challenges for journalism practice. What is new this time, is the fact the audience members joined the news gathering, production and dissemination process. So- called ‘citizen journalism’ has been studied for a couple of years now. The findings showed that new technologies in the media allowed people to act like journalists and to some extent play their roles. However, the general conclusions seem to be rather optimistic for professional journalists. They may not be the only sources of information about the events around the world now, but they are still major gatekeepers. In fact, since the international flow of information significantly extended in the last decade and the number of information is more overwhelming than ever before, most of the audience members desperately need someone who will be able to select and order the events for them.

The aim of this conference is to contribute to our understanding of powers that influence journalism standards and routines. Hence, the participants of the conference will concentrate on such ‘traditional’ issues as: relations between politics and journalism, market – related aspects of journalism, organizational and professional factors. Furthermore, the questions about a digital challenges for the journalism practice will be raised. In order to do this, the conference will bring together a range of international scholars, drawn from representative disciplines in the media studies and journalism. The key questions during the debates would concern the roles of journalists. Who are they now? What are the audiences’ expectations towards journalists? What is the future of this profession?

We invite paper and panel proposals that cover the main themes below:

• ·Traditional and contemporary models of journalism
• ·Professional standards and values
• ·Professional roles and identities
• ·Journalism and politics
• ·The changing business of journalism
• ·Journalism practice around the world
• ·Digital challenges for journalism practice
• ·Online journalism
• ·Citizen journalism
• ·Ethics in new media
• ·Future of journalism
• ·Local journalism

Keynote speakers:

Peter Gross, University of Tennessee, USA

Thomas Hanitzsch, University of Munich, Germany.

Owen V. Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

Walery Pisarek, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Ramon Salaverria, University of Navarra, Spain.

Wayne Wanta, University of Florida, USA

David Weaver, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

Conference submission

1. Individual paper: please submit a max 900 word abstract followed by the short biographical note (up words: name, surname, position, institution, address, e-mail) by January 31, 2012.

2. Panel submission: please submit a max 350 – word panel rationale, followed by 75 – word panel description and 150 word – abstracts of the papers (max 4 papers per panel) by 15 January, 2012.

Contact:

Please send your submission to: conference@ptks.pl

Notification of accepted papers will be sent out by March 15, 2012

More information: www.ptks.pl/conference

1. Best Mobile Health innovation – http://goo.gl/09Mgr
2. Best Mobile Innovation for Education or Learning – http://goo.gl/5NJZR
3. Best Mobile Innovation for automotive, transport or utilities – http://goo.gl/iiIkV
4. Best Embedded Mobile Device – http://goo.gl/Xp5HW

The following awards might also be applicable to some of you:

5. Green Mobile Award – http://goo.gl/7RJd9
6. Best technology breakthrough – http://goo.gl/oK7UD
7. Best Cloud based technology – http://goo.gl/TtfH8

The deadline for entries is the 30th November 2011. The shortlists are announced in January, with the winning entries unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in February 2012 in Barcelona, Spain.
For full details of the Awards, their benefits, and how to enter, take a look at http://goo.gl/nQLTH

The conference, whose objective is to discuss the current state and challenges in the practice and teaching of journalism in different parts of the world, is organized by the University of Santiago de Chile, Frontera University, University of Chile, the Pontificial Catholic University of Valparaiso, and the University of Porto.

We would like to remind you that the deadline for submitting abstracts is December 7, 2011.

To send your abstract, go to: http://www.periodismochile2012.cl/site/abstract

For more information, please visit www.periodismochile2012.cl

We hope that you are interested in participating in this event, and that you share the information with your colleagues and academic networks.

Sincerely,

Claudia Mellado

President of the Organizing Committee

AUSACE 2011 includes two pre-conference workshops and one pre-conference keynote lecture and features over 150 speakers and a rich dose of cultural experiences, including visits to downtown Beirut, the Lebanese mountains, and South Lebanon.  Given the role of social and digital media in the revolutions that continue to sweep the Arab world, AUSACE 2011 promises vibrant discussions and a unique networking opportunity with media scholars, journalists, experts, and activists from all over the world.

To register and know more about the conference, please visit:
http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/sbs/ausace2011/Pages/Registration.aspx

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For questions, please email: ausace2011@aub.edu.lb

AUSACE 2011 Conference Chair

Jad Melki, Ph.D.

Asst. Professor of Journalism and Media Studies
Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies
Media Studies Program

Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Nicely Bldg, Rm 203D
American University of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon

www.aub.edu.lb/ausace2011

+961-1-350-000 Ext. 4380 (Office)
jm39@aub.edu.lb

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5 – 8 November 2011

(http://www.internet-conf.org/)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):

Professor Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

Professor Nivio Ziviani, Professor Emeritus at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

* Conference background and goals

The IADIS WWW/Internet 2011 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but other aspects have aroused.

This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (see below). However innovative contributes that don’t fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees.

* Format of the Conference

The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in other selected Journals.

The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC, EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services.

* Types of submissions

Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to WWW/Internet are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:

Web 2.0

- Collaborative Systems

- Social Networks

- Folksonomies

- Enterprise Wikis and Blogging

- Mashups and Web Programming

- Tagging and User Rating Systems

- Citizen Journalism

Semantic Web and XML

- Semantic Web Architectures

- Semantic Web Middleware

- Semantic Web Services

- Semantic Web Agents

- Ontologies

- Applications of Semantic Web

- Semantic Web Data Management

- Information Retrieval in Semantic Web

Applications and Uses

- e-Learning

- e-Commerce / e-Business

- e-Government

- e-Health

- e-Procurement

- e-Society

- Digital Libraries

- Web Services/SaaS

- Application Interoperability

- Web-based multimedia technologies

Services, Architectures and Web Development

- Wireless Web

- Mobile Web

- Cloud/Grid Computing

- Web Metrics

- Web Standards

- Internet Architectures

- Network Algorithms

- Network Architectures

- Network Computing

- Network Management

- Network Performance

- Content Delivery Technologies

- Protocols and Standards

- Traffic Models

Research Issues

- Web Science

- Digital Rights Management

- Bioinformatics

- Human Computer Interaction and Usability

- Web Security and Privacy

- Online Trust and Reputation Systems

- Data Mining

- Information Retrieval

- Search Engine Optimization

* Important Dates:

- Submission Deadline (1st call extension): 24 June 2011

- Notification to Authors (1st call extension): 27 July 2011

- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1st call extension): Until 5 September 2011

- Late Registration (1st call extension): After 5 September 2011

- Conference: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5 to 8 November 2011

* Conference Location

The conference will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

* Secretariat

IADIS Secretariat – IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WWW/INTERNET 2011

Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3

1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal

E-mail: secretariat@internet-conf.org

Web site: http://www.internet-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Chair

Bebo White, Stanford University, USA

Conference Co-Chairs

Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Flávia Maria Santoro, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Committee Members: *

* for committee list please refer to http://www.internet-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events

Please also check the co-located events Applied Computing 2011 (http://www.computing-conf.org/) – 6-8 November 2011 and CELDA 2011 (http://www.celda-conf.org/) – 6-8 November 2011.

* Registered participants in the WWW/Internet conference may attend the Applied Computing and CELDA conferences’ sessions free of charge.

Dear Colleagues and Friends:

As recent revolutionary movements in Egypt and other Arab countries have so powerfully demonstrated, digital and social media have enabled essential information – via mobile phones, blogs, online social networks, satellite TV, wikis, and user-generated news, photos and videos – to reach people who otherwise would have been disenfranchised.

That makes the theme of the 2011 Conference of the Arab-U.S. Association of Communication Educators (AUSACE) – Digital & Media Literacy: New Directions – even more relevant than it was when the call for papers was posted months ago.

AUSACE looks forward with great enthusiasm to offering a conference in Beirut that will stimulate important research and conversation about digital and social media and how the consumers of information brought to them by these new media access, use, and interact with digital media content and the networking opportunities they bring forth.

AUSACE conferences bring together a remarkable group of communication educators, scholars, and professionals once a year – from the United States and Arab countries, and from other parts of the world. Research papers, panels, and poster presentations will stimulate both scholarly and social discourse at the October 28-31 AUSACE conference.

I look forward to listening to your presentations and to debating the current topics that are shaping our worlds as we speak.

Dr. Judy VanSlyke Turk,
Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University and AUSACE President, 2010-2012.

Abstract submissions for research papers, panels, and poster presentations are now open (Full paper submission not required).
For details on how to submit please visit the official conference website:
www.aub.edu.lb/ausace2011
or
http://www.aub.edu.lb/FAS/SBS/AUSACE2011/Pages/CallforPapers.aspx

New Deadline for abstract submission is May 31, 2011

For questions, please email: ausace2011@aub.edu.lb

An International Academic Conference

May 13-14, 2011

Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Call for Papers

As neoliberal globalization reaches a critical juncture and as global political economic, social, cultural and ecological crises deepen, social scientists all over the world are facing profound challenges in analyzing the drastic changes in the world. Marxism, with its powerful critique of capitalism and its unyielding commitment to human emancipation, has not vanished with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Rather, it has been revitalized and reconstructed to tackle the problems of our times. The spectre of Marx haunts the world in variegated forms.

The world’s communication systems, which function as a technological infrastructure and an economic sector on the one hand, and as a cultural terrain and a cornerstone of democratic societies on the other, are also undergoing a profound process of transformation. Confusions and crises within the process have created a new sense of urgency for the explication of a whole range of historical and contemporary issues. Over the years, scholars within a broadly defined Marxian tradition have persistently dedicated themselves to advancing communication research as a critical praxis aiming at creating more just national and global communication orders. In doing so, the Marxian tradition has also made well-recognized contributions to enriching communication scholarship.

In order to promote dialogue among critical communication scholars and contribute to advancing global communication scholarship that is capable of not only addressing the multifaceted problems of globalized informational capitalism, but also grasping the complicated dynamics of ongoing social upheavals, the State Institute for Innovations in the Studies of Journalism, Communication and Mediated Society at Fudan University (SJCM), in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Intellectual History at Fudan University, will host a conference entitled “Communication and Social Change: New Marxist Perspectives” from May 13-14, 2011 at Fudan University, Shanghai.

The conference, which has already confirmed the participation of more than 10 leading international scholars with specializations in different areas and regions of the world, solicits the submission of paper proposals in any aspect of communication and social change in global, regional, national and local contexts. We are particularly interested in papers addressing the following topics:

1. Marxism and Critical Theories on Communication and Social Change
2. Information, Media and Cultural Industries and the Global Economic Crisis
3. Critical Perspectives on Communication Law, Policy and Regulation
4. Information Societies in the Global South and the Future of Rural Societies from Social Justice and Critical Ecological Perspectives
5. Communication, Labor, Peasants, Urban Youth, and the New Dynamics of Social Struggle
6. The Communication and Cultural Politics of Empire, Nation, Class, Race and Gender
7. Communication, Emancipation, and the Possibilities and Limits of Identity Politics
8. Communication and Cultural Rights and Global Justice
9. Marxist Methodologies and the Critical Application of Empirical Methods

10.  Revitalizing and Sharpening the Critical Edge of Cultural Studies

11.  Critical Perspectives on Media Education

12.  Universities, the Politics of Intellectual Publicity, and Transnational Knowledge Flows in the Age of Networked Communication

13.  The Public Nature of Communication Media in China: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Crises

14.  The Position of China’s Communication Industries within the Global Political Economy

15.  Marxism, the History of Chinese Media Scholarship, and the History of Chinese Communication Industries

Please submit an abstract of around 300 words by March 31, 2011 to Dr. Jia Min (jiamin0120@gmail.com) at the SJCM. Successful authors will be notified by April 8, 2011.

From a business perspective, convergence is now a common phenomenon. Hardly any operator can claim itself as a pure telecommunications service provider. Innovative business models such as “Apple Store” have broken the walled garden of mobile operators and have made it possible for users to become application providers.

From a policy perspective, universal broadband access has been on the top agenda of more and more governments. In addition to facilitating Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH), governments are trying hard to find creative ways to allocate more spectrum for wireless broadband access. Another concern of regulators is how to build trusted identities in cyberspace.

All these changes in telecommunications have significant implications to Chinese communities, be they individual economies in Great China or Chinese communities living in Western or other regions. For instance, what is the cultural implication of the fact that Internet-based TV broadcasting has enabled overseas Chinese to access almost every channel of China Central TV (CCTV) for free? What is the real value for farmers in rural China to access broadband Internet?

This special issue of Chinese Journal of Communication (CJoC) is to address the latest dynamics of telecommunications in Chinese communities from technology, business and policy perspectives. Topics could include but are not limited to:

1. Digital Divide
2. Diffusion of New Services in Great China and other Chinese Communities
3. Comparison of User Behavior of Chinese and Non-Chinese
4. Towards Next Generation Network: Related Issues
5. Media Convergence and Its Implications
6. Telecommunications Business Innovation and Its Economic, Social and Political Implications
7. Competition: New Players and New Platforms
8. User Roles and Social Networking
9. Internet Governance
10. Regulatory Framework in the Era of Convergence
11. Spectrum: Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Solutions
12. Transformation of Traditional Telecommunications Operators

Both qualitative and quantitative approaches to the issue are welcome. Collaboration of Chinese scholars and non-Chinese scholars are encouraged. The purpose is to address the relevantissues in Chinese communities from cross-national perspectives.

Submissions should conform to the editorial guidelines of Chinese Journal of Communication to be found at http://www.informaworld.com/cjoc under “Instructions for Authors.” Papers for consideration in this special edition should be e-mailed to xuyan@ust.hk. Planned publication date is September 2012.

This new issue contains the following articles:

ARTICLES

THE NEW BREED OF BUSINESS JOURNALISM FOR NICHE GLOBAL NEWS, Pages 783 – 798

Authors: David Machin; Sarah Niblock

MEASURING THE IMPACT OF PR ON PUBLISHED NEWS IN INCREASINGLY FRAGMENTED NEWS ENVIRONMENTS, Pages 799 – 816

Author: Zvi Reich

POLITICS OF SEXTING, Pages 817 – 831

Authors: Laura Juntunen; Esa Väliverronen

NO-SPIN ZONES, Pages 832 – 851

Author: Chris Peters

CHATTING THE NEWS, Pages 852 – 873

Author: Neil Stevenson

THE RECIPROCITY OF JOURNALISM’S SOCIAL CONTRACT, Pages 874 – 888

Author: Helle Sjøvaag

FOUNDATION-FUNDED JOURNALISM, Pages 889 – 903

Author: Harry Browne

REVIEWS

BOOK REVIEWS, Pages 904 – 911

Authors: Anthony Delano; Iñaki Garcia-Blanco; Ron Bishop; Wayne Dawkins; Michel Dupagne