MEDIASIA 2011 - MediAsia 2011 - The Second Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication

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Deadline: August 01, 2011 | Date: November 04, 2011-November 07, 2011

Venue/Country: Osaka, Japan

Updated: 2011-06-04 13:23:30 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

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: mediasiaiafor.org

Web address: http://mediasia.iafor.org

Sponsored by: The International Academic Forum