Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.91.960104153240.22594P-100000@uhunix2.its.Hawaii.Edu> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 15:34:10 -1000 From: Richard Vincent <mailto:rvincent@HAWAII.EDU> Subject: MacBride Round Table To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
<Call for Papers and Participation>8th MacBride Round Table August 24-27, 1996, in Seoul, South Korea
COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE: IDENTITY, PLURALITY AND EQUALITY
Communication and Culture are two key words encompassing the broad span of work conducted in various fields of contemporary communications research. Although inherently open and unbinding, these two notions, at the same time, engender very specific issues for academic discourse such as questions of identity, equality, and sovereignty. Technological innovations and continuing restructuring of international order present new set of challenges for those of us who conduct research and analyze and recommend policy actions in ever enlarging areas of communication studies.
The Korean Broadcasting Academic Society in cooperation with the Steering Committee of the MacBride Round Table will organize the 8th annual meeting of the Round Table in Seoul, on August 24-27, 1996. The theme of the meeting is: COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE: Identity, Plurality and Equality.
Topics to be covered will include, but not be restricted to: - The right to communication in an increasingly commercial world - Communication and the globalization of cultural identity - The clash of communities and markets: The role of communication - Ethnicity and indigenous populations - Communication in the post-colonial and information society - NGOs and grassroots in the struggle for the right to communicate - Gender and communication - Communication in rural development - Can the media and markets be responsible? - Aspects of media professionalism - Developments in freedom of expression - WTO and balanced international communication flows - Inter-Asian media exchanges and flows - The Asia-Pacific Information Infrastructure and inter-regional information gaps
The conference also welcomes papers on global communications issues outside the Communication and Culture. Papers dealing with issues of national communication policy, critical examination of international culture industries, changing conditions of network resulting from technological innovations as well as studies of images and representation are particularly welcome. Workshop proposals are also encouraged.
The Round Table, a communications rights advocacy group, was created in 1989 to stimulate discussion of issues embodied in the 1980 UNESCO MacBride Report. The MacBride Round Table is an international group of scholars, journalists and other communication experts devoted to the monitoring of world communication rights and balances, and reporting findings to community groups, U.N. agencies, non-governmental organizations and the news media.
SUBMISSIONS:
One page abstracts (in English) for the 8th MacBride Round Table must be received on or before March 31, 1996. Two copies of abstracts and any additional correspondence should be submitted _simultaneously_ to both individuals listed below:
1) Dr. Richard C. Vincent Department of Communication University of Hawaii at Manoa George Hall 336 2560 Campus Road Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 U. S. A.
Phone: 1-808-956-3352 Fax: 1-808-956-5589 or 5591 E-Mail: mailto:rvincent@hawaii.edu
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2) Dr. Inhee Lee Department of Mass Communication Kyung Hee University 1 Hoigi-Dong, Dongdaemun-Gu Seoul, 130-701 South Korea
Phone: 82-2-961-0773 Fax: 82-2-965-8004 E-Mail: mailto:inheelee@chollian.dacom.co.kr
Abstracts will be reviewed by the Round Table. The completed paper should be submitted to the Seoul Organizing Committee on or before June 30, 1996 along with a diskette (3 and a half inches) containing text-only (or ASCII) file of the paper for timely preparation of the Round Table proceedings.
A range of accommodations will be available, including some on-campus housing. Low airfares to Seoul are available through the MacBride Round Table official carrier, Korean Airlines (KAL). Contact the Korean sponsors for information on lodging and transportation.