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Media, Religion and Culture Working Group - News
This Working Group has a special interest in religious aspects of communication. It tries to foster international cooperation in the field, discussion and exchange of ideas, and common research projects.
Chair: Frank D. Coffey [contact]
Co-Chair: Yoël Cohen [contact]
Co-Chair: Dominica Dipio [contact]
This Working Group considers important topics around the interaction between religion and the media, including the way religious groups are brought into political alliances as pressure groups and their uses of the media, the complexities of religious agencies with regard to public opinion; and in community building to proclamation, art to expression of faith, apologetic and propagandistic media usage and reception.
The Media, Religion and Culture (MRC) Working Group invites proposals for papers to be presented at the annual conference for the International Association for Media & Communication Research at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN), in Durban, South Africa; from 15th-19th of July 2012. The website address of the Durban conference is: http:www.iamcr2012.ukzn.ac.za/
IAMCR 2013 - Media, Religion & Culture Working Group - Call for Papers
The Media, Religion & Culture Working Group invites proposals for papers to be presented at the annual conference for the International Association for Media & Communication Research (IAMCR) at Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland from 25th-29th of June 2013. The website address of the Dublin conference is: http://iamcr2013dublin.com.
The IAMCR conference will be held under the general theme, Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power and Communication Orders. The conference theme centres on whether and how the current economic crisis and its attendant gales of "creative destruction" may serve to reshape the geo-political and communication orders. Will this crisis prompt or enable multi-dimensional change in the prevailing forms and modes of mediated communication on the one hand, and in global power structures and control processes on the other?
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)29th Annual Conference, July 13-17, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
Cities, Creativity, Connectivity
Media and the Connectivity in Cities Shaping New Relations with the Religious
Citizenship continues to be practiced, to evolve, and to be qualified by the mix of media, religion & culture, usually at implicit levels. It is not always clear, though, how religion serves in a communicative role, especially in the mass media. The IAMCR Media, Religion and Culture Working Group invites proposals for papers exploring clarifications of the religious as a context for civil participation and responsibility both more generally and also focused on the conference theme: "Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change".
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Negotiating Communication Rights - Case studies from India
Pradip N. Thomas
Communication Rights is a key issue in contemporary societies, especially in a country like India, which faces major communication deficits. Negotiating Communication Rights explores some of the most important aspects of communication rights movements in India.
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