::fc-announce:: UQ: MAPPING THE NEW FIELD OF COMMUNICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE

[Geert Lovink]

MAPPING THE NEW FIELD OF COMMUNICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE
July 5-8, 2006, UQ, Brisbane
http://www.sjc.uq.edu.au:9999/

The dialectical forces of globalization and localization are 
simultaneously integrating and fragmenting national/cultural 
identities.  The successive breakthroughs of print, telephone, 
broadcasting, television, and the internet have progressively expanded 
our domain of communication beyond geographical boundaries. 
Correspondingly, our identities have expanded from social groups, 
ethnic communities, cities, states, nations to the West, the East or 
the cyberspace. In the process of globalizing the local and localizing 
the global, it is through the act of communication that we negotiate 
and construct our cultural identities. Consequently, increasingly 
heated discussions among communication scholars have been focused on 
key issues and trends in globalizing communication and pluralizing 
cultural identities.

The School of Journalism and Communication at the University of 
Queensland is now soliciting submissions for the International 
Conference on Communication for Development and Social Change to be 
held on 5-8 July 2006 in Brisbane, Australia. Papers reflecting diverse 
theoretical perspectives and both quantitative and qualitative 
methodological approaches are encouraged. Topic areas are broadly 
defined as, but not limited to, the following:

Boundaries between mediated and interpersonal communication
Communication for development and social change
Communication/journalism education
Communication in the age of corporization
Cross-cultural adaptation and intercultural adjustment
Globalization of communication and pluralization of cultural identities
Group/organizational communication
Health communication
Information technology and interpersonal communication
Information technology and mass communication
International business communication/management
Race, ethnicity and multiculturalism
Risk communication
Verbal/nonverbal communication

Categories of Submissions

Three categories may be accepted: Abstract, panel proposals, and 
workshop proposals.

Abstracts: about 150-200 words in English.  Please check the UQ 
homepage for the format of the abstract.
Panel proposals: Panel proposals reflecting the conference theme may be 
submitted. All panel proposals should provide a 300-word rationale and 
150-word abstract of each panellist’s paper.

Workshops: Workshop proposals relevant to the conference theme and 
expected to draw good audience may be submitted. Proposal is expected 
to be 3-5 pages in length, single spaced.

General Guideline for All Submissions

Deadline: Please submit the abstracts, the complete panel proposals and 
the complete workshop proposals online as MS Word attachment by 1 March 
2006. If extenuating circumstances preclude your submitting online, or 
if you have specific questions regarding the submission, please contact 
the conference organizer(s) in advance of the submission deadline to 
allow for needed special arrangements. All submissions will be 
carefully reviewed. Notifications of acceptance of abstracts will be 
sent out in early April. Usernames and passwords will be provided to 
accepted abstracts to permit online submission of full papers by 1 June 
2006.

Please send your abstracts to:

Dr Shuang Liu

School of Journalism & Communication
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Tel: (07) 3365 3070
Fax: (07) 3365 1377
Email: s.liu1 at uq.edu.au

For conference updates, please visit the UQ website at:  
www.uq.edu.au/sjc/conference