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Media, Religion and Culture

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.

Members of the Media, Religion and Culture Working Group.

erythrina_caffra 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/

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
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Braga 2010 - CFP for Media, Religion & Culture Working Group

Braga 2010 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".