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<font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>Symposium: </b>University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 17-18 November 2011 <br>
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<b>Keynote speakers</b>: <br>
<i>Professor Simon Cottle<br>
</i>Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies at Cardiff University<br>
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<i>Senator Christine Milne<br>
</i>Australian Greens <br>
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<b>Organisers</b>: <br>
Libby Lester, Journalism, Media and Communications at the University of Tasmania<br>
Brett Hutchins, Communications & Media Studies at Monash University, Melbourne<br>
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We are living through a period of major transformation in environmental politics and conflict. Web 2.0 platforms like Facebook and Twitter and mobile communications are changing the ‘rules of the game’ for activism and journalism, creating a genuinely <i>multi</i>-media environment alongside traditional print and broadcast mediums. These developments are critical in understanding changing norms of democratic practice and debate, especially during election campaigns and protest actions. Recognising that this is a time of reassessment and renewal in mediated politics, the symposium asks: How are the Internet, Web, mobile and digital media affecting the strategies and understandings of environmental politics?<br>
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</b>The symposium’s concerns include, but are not limited to: <br>
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</span></font></font><ul><li><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:12pt">The rapidly changing role and value of the Internet, Web and mobile media in relation to environmental campaigns, media practices and communications strategies. How are environmental activists, NGOs, concerned citizens, journalists, and politicians responding to networked digital communications technologies?</span></font></font><font face="Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt">
</span></font><li><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">The form and impact of online media in relation to print and broadcast news reporting, as well as the role of news media in the exchange of information between political challengers and policy-makers.</span></font></font><font face="Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt">
</span></font><li><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">Political decision-making and media communications at the local level, and their connection to national, regional and global politics.</span></font></font><font face="Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt"> <br>
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Tasmania is a nationally and globally significant symbolic and physical site for environmental politics. Home of the internationally famous Franklin Blockade of the early 1980s, the state’s rich history and experience of environmental conflict make it an ideal setting to come together to discuss these issues. <br>
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<b>Abstracts:</b> Please send abstracts of between 2-300 words to <a href="Libby.Lester@utas.edu.au">Libby.Lester@utas.edu.au</a> by 30 April 2011. Papers will also be considered for inclusion in an edited collection to be developed from the conference.<br>
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Assoc Prof </span></font><span style="font-size:9pt"><font face="Cambria">Libby Lester<br>
Deputy Head, School of English, Journalism and European Languages<br>
Coordinator, Journalism, Media and Communications<br>
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University of Tasmania<br>
Private Bag 82<br>
Hobart TAS 7001<br>
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Ph: 61-3-6226 7542<br>
Fax: 61-3-6226 7631<br>
Email: <a href="Libby.Lester@utas.edu.au">Libby.Lester@utas.edu.au</a><br>
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