Home arrow Calls for Papers

This page provides information about current calls for papers for conferences, journals, book chapters and books of interest to the global media and communication research community. To have your own events added, send us an email...


 The International Association for Media and Communication Research invites paper proposals addressing various themes on Communication and Media Studies for the 2009 Conference, which will be held at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco-UNAM, between July 21-24 2009.

 This conference aims at bringing together scholars and researchers to present their works and exchange ideas under the general theme “Human Rights and Communication".

Read more...




Theme: 
Communication management in business, state administration and social organizations.
Type: 
Conference call for papers and panel proposals.
Title: 
X International Scientific Conference: "Communication Management in Information Society"
Conference date and place:
28 May 2009. Riga, Latvia.
Submission deadline:
Speaker proposals: 10 January 2009
Full articles: 31 January 2009
Convener:
School of Business Administration Turiba (Latvia)
Contact:
Dr.Sc.Ing. Ilmars Viksne
School of Business Administration Turiba
Graudu iela 68
Riga, LV - 1058, LATVIA
Ilmars.Viksne[AT] turiba.lv
Convener website: http://www.turiba.lv/
 
Theme:
Effects of digitisation on international news. 
Type:
Conference call for papers. 
Title:
The Changing World of International News in the 21st Century: The impact of digital technology 
Conference date and place: 
14-16 April 2009. Hong Kong (China).
Submission deadline:
12 January 2009 -  Abstracts.
21 February 2009 - Full papers for conference book publication.
1 March 2009 - Full papers (not for book publication).
Convener:
The Institute for Journalism & Society, Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University; and  The Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong.
Contact:
Submissions should be addressed to: ijs [AT] hkbu.edu.hk 
Conference website:
http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~jour/INC2009
 
Theme: 
Communication and cultural technologies and practices, their histories, producers, audiences and users, policies and texts.
Type:Journal call for papers
Title:
Communication, Politics & Culture
General Editor:
Cathy Greenfield
RMIT University
Contact:
Please email abstracts and papers to Cathy.Greenfield[AT]rmit.edu.au
Publisher website: 
http://www.rmit.edu.au/appliedcommunication/research/sr
 
Theme:
Development communication.
Type:
Conference call for papers.
Title: International Conference on Development Communication in the Era of Globalization. 
Conference date and place:
9-11 July 2009. Chennai (formerly Madras), India.  
Submission deadline:
31 January 2009 - Abstracts.
15 May 2009 - Full papers.
Convener:
The Global Communication Research Association.
The School of Media Studies, Loyola College. Chennai, India.
Contact:
Submissions and inquiries should be addressed to:
Henry Victor - hmv2hmv [AT] yahoo.com
I. Arul Aram - arulram [AT] annauniv.edu
 
Theme: Communication, creativity and global citizenship
Type:
Conference papers
Title: 
ANZCA09
Conference date and place:
8-10 July 2009. Brisbane, Australia. 
Submission deadline:
5 February 2009. (Abstracts & refereed papers)
Convener:
Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA).
Website:
http://www.anzca09.or
 
Theme:
Media and democratisation.
Type:
Call for papers, essays and book reviews.
Title:
Journal of Global Communication (JGC).
Submission deadline:
25 February 2009.
Contact:

Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form to:

Ullah Sahid
Editorial Coordinator
(Special issue June 2009)
Journal of Global Communication
ullah_sahid [AT] yahoo.co.uk 

 
Theme: 
Journalism and public interest.
Type: 
Conference call for papers.
Title: International Conference "Journalism Research in the Public Interest".
Conference date and place:
19-21 November 2009. Winterthur/Zurich, Switzerland.
Submission deadline: 1 April 2009 - Paper proposals (abstracts)
1 October 2009 - Full draft papers
Convener: IAM Institute for Applied Media Studies, ZHAW Zurich
Universities of Applied Sciences, and the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Contact:

Submissions and inquiries should be addressed to:
Vinzenz Wyss - vin-zenz.wyss [AT] zhaw.ch
Thomas Hanitzsch - th.hanitzsch [AT] ipmz.uzh.ch