Special Sessions

IAMCR 2011 Special Sessions

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Lessons from/for WikiLeaks
Perspectives from Media and Communications

This Special Session aims to feature analysis and reflections from practitioners and academics on the matter in order to address some of the pressing issues emerging from the 'model' WikiLeaks has generated. The session should complement plans by other sections for WikiLeaks-related panels (such as a planned roundtable by the CPT and Law sections), as well as sessions that may emerge from paper submissions, ideally leading to a stream of WL-sessions. Read more >

 

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The University in Crisis
Tradition, innovation, and employment in Communications departments
IAMCR 2011 Special Session organized by the IAMCR Emerging Scholars Network

Over the past few years, students and faculty in California, Puerto Rico, Quebec, Greece and England, and other regions where the government has customarily given strong support to higher education, have responded to massive fee increases with protests and strikes. In other countries universities and students have recently been at the center of social struggles, as have communications technologies. What does this mean for the nature of academic employment and research in Communications? And how does neoliberal policy affect academic research and practice in Communications, an interdisciplinary area of study incorporating both critical theory and research directly applicable to the business world? Read more >

 

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IAMCR 2011 Presidential Conversation
Cities, Communication and Cosmopolitanism
14th July, 2011

During IAMCR's annual conference in Istanbul, Annabelle Sreberny,  president of the association, is organising and hosting a "presidential conversation" focused broadly on the cosmopolitan environment of cities, echoing the conference theme. The intention of these Presidential Conversations is to bring interlocutors from diverse disciplinary fields outside our main academic areas to debate with us. The focus of this session is broadly on the cosmopolitan environment of cities, echoing the conference theme. Read more >

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New Media and the Middle East
17th July, 2011

The first few months of 2011 have seen an astonishing unfolding of political change across the Maghreb and Middle East. These build on long-standing grievances and inequalities and older forms of political mobilization, so cannot simply be labelled as 'Twitter revolutions', yet at the same time there is little doubt that different forms of new media were creatively used in these uprisings. Khaled Koubaa was active in the first such mobilization in Tunisia while Gigi Ibrahim participated in the Tahrir Square processes that rocked Mubarak's regime in Egypt. They will each describe and analyse the mix of face-to-face politics and use of new media that facilitated political change in these two countries. Alongside Khaled Kouba from Tunis and Gigi Ibrahim from Cairo, IAMCR members Marwan Kraidy (Annenberg, Philadelphia), Joe Khalil (Northwestern, Qater), Tariq Sabri (Westminster) and  DIna Matar (SOAS) will all make short interventions. Read more >

 

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