[csaa-forum] FINAL CFP 'OUR MEDIA' CONFERENCE

[Tanja Dreher]

+++++ please circulate widely ++++++++++++


OURMedia – NUESTROSMedios 6
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Sydney, Australia – April 10-13, 2007
Www.ourmedia07.net

Sustainable Futures:
Roles & Challenges for Community, Alternative and Citizens’ Media in the 21st Century

EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS AND EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST UNTIL NOVEMBER 20

MORE INFORMATION AT www.ourmedia07.net OR  www.ourmedianet.org 

CONFERENCE TOPICS AND STREAMS

Community Media Research
The role for research in community building (applied & action research) - Community media and innovation in the 
creative industries - Participatory Communication in Research - Community cultural research: theories, models, and 
strategies - Conceptualising a ‘community’ media sector in transnational contexts - Cultural identities and community 
research networks – interdisciplinary research.

Participation and Social Change 
Participatory Communication for Social Change: International Initiatives - Participatory design and sustainable community 
media initiatives – Development communication - Participatory monitoring and evaluation - ICT and community cultural 
development.

Community Media and Policy 
Media reform; communication rights: NGOs and community media - International conventions and national media 
policies – National regulatory frameworks - Funding and governance models for community media enterprise - Local 
media ecologies and the impact of global media markets - Spectrum use and management - Linking policy to community 
outcomes. 

Media Activism /Civil Society /Social Movements 
Transnational participatory communication networks  - media activism and citizenship - tactical media - Indymedia - 
social movements, community counter-public building and ‘our media’ - Intellectual commons vs. intellectual property 
rights - Women networks and empowerment - Social movement research.

Local Culture /Media Diversity 
Ethnic community media & multicultural policies - Everyday cultural diversity & local media production - Media diversity 
and community journalism - Peace journalism - Local access and free press - Community media in Western Sydney. 
Community Media in Asia and the Pacific. 

New Technologies / Media Convergence
Digital community TV - Interactive television research - Podcasting and interactive media - Digital games for change - 
ICT: strategic uses & capacity building - Free software, creative common & open information systems – “Our’ media in the 
information society.

Community and Public Access Broadcasting 
Histories of community radio - organisational structures and models of sustainability – Radio in peace-building and 
social change; poverty reduction - Distribution: Digital radio and new media challenges - Program-making and content 
analysis - Community radio and cultural/gender diversity and politics.

 Indigenous Media, Aboriginal Media 
Indigenous broadcasting, policies and politics - Indigenous media: distribution, festivals & networks - Indigenous 
knowledge and digitalisation - Strategic use of ICT’s for Indigenous communities - Indigenous cinemas and collaborative 
politics of resistance and self-affirmation. 

Young People and Grass-Roots Communication 
Representation of young people in community media - Young people, the blogosphere and creative online networks - 
Cyberspace, religion and youth culture - Media literacy, training and community knowledge - Case studies of innovative 
or experimental alternative media by/for young people. 


************************************
OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios
A network of alternative, community & citizens media
research and practice
http://www.ourmedianet.org
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Subscribe to the mailing list:
Send e-mail to clemencia (AT) ou.edu
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
6th Conference: Sydney, April 2007
http://www.ourmedia07.net/

Dr Tanja Dreher
Research Manager
UTS Shopfront
University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
Email: tanja.dreher at uts.edu.au
Phone: (02) 9514 2902
Fax: (02) 9514 2911
www.shopfront.uts.edu.au