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| IAMCR Panel at ICA 2008 Conference |
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The panel will take place on Sunday May 25, 10:30 - 11:45 in Salon 8 of the Sheraton Centre, Montreal, Canada. In December 2007, IAMCR was invited to develop a prospective research agenda for UNESCO. A research agenda was developed emphasizing the need to strengthen and re-orient research in ways that might enable a rethinking of sustainable development in the context of knowledge societies. Focusing on governance, cultural diversity and media education, strong themes that emerged include human rights; access and literacies; participatory communication; representation and attention to a repertoire of research methodologies and methods. This panel will examine both the strengths and the weaknesses of the new agenda from a scholarly point of view as the agenda was developed to respond to the policy and practice-oriented interests of UNESCO. It will ask, what is the gap between scholarly interest in these issues and more policy/practice oriented research? Participants on the panel will include those who participated in a small brainstorming workshop to develop the agenda as well as those who are members of IAMCR but did not have the chance to participate directly. Chair: Professor Robin Mansell |
We would like to invite those of you attending the 2008 ICA Conference to the IAMCR Panel 'Communication and Information: Critical Perspectives on IAMCR's Research Agenda for 
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