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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Call for papers:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Global Media Journal Australian Edition together with<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span> </span>Swinburne University’s Faculty of Life and Social Science present<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">The Arab Spring:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">A Symposium on Social Media and the Politics of Reportage</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Friday June 8, 2012</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Advanced Technologies Centre, Swinburne University</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Melbourne Australia</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Special issues editors Diana Bossio and Saba Bebawi</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Beginning in Tunisia in 2010, what has been termed the ‘Arab Spring’ protests
spread to Egypt, Libya, Syria and many other areas of the Middle East, toppling governments and calling for democratic political change to otherwise authoritarian government regimes. Perhaps one of the more interesting aspects of these protests is the use
of social media and alternate digital media technologies to both co-ordinate action by protesters and to report upon the events. Activists, protesters and traditional and mainstream journalists were seemingly innovative in their interactions, digitally sharing
each others’ eyewitness accounts of events through interview, reportage, image and video online. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">This symposium proposes to both theoretically and empirically consider the social, political and cultural ramifications of these interactions and their meaning in a digital
media age, seeking to derive conceptualisations of social media and the politics of reportage. <span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Proposals for presentations are now invited to be submitted for inclusion in the one-day symposium program. Interested participants should email a 200-word abstract for a 20-minute
presentation during the seminar. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">We are seeking abstracts from authors that present new analyses of the changes and tensions that have occurred in the relations between the different forms of reportage, especially
with the rise in popularity of social media platforms in times of crisis. Specifically we are interested in papers that critically examine the supposed dichotomy between what is perceived as the authenticity, authority and credibility of traditional journalism
and the efficiencies and audience-driven content of alternative media practice. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 16pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Research that explores the following themes would be welcomed: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">-The different uses of social media during the Arab Spring protests<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">-The interaction between ‘traditional’ and ‘alternative’ media practitioners during the protests<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">-Specific ethical issues in reportage that arose during the interaction between mainstream and alternative media practitioners during the protests<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">-How has mainstream media practice positioned itself within a discourse that has suggested the Arab Spring protests as a ‘social media revolution’?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">-How can the Arab Spring protests be used a point of reference or case study to discuss this interaction between ‘traditional’ and ‘alternative’ media platforms?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">-How has the political and policy landscape transformed nationally and internationally in the past decade? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Other global examples which cover the above areas are also encouraged
to apply.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Participants
will be invited to submit a paper for publication in the Issue 3<a name="_GoBack"></a>, 2012 of the Global Media Journal Australian Edition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Abstract deadline: COB April 1, 2012</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Please email abstracts as word document attachments to Seminar organisers: Diana Bossio </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:dbossio@swin.edu.au"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 42, 246); font-size: 10pt; ">dbossio@swin.edu.au</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "> or
Saba Bebawi </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:sbebawi@swin.edu.au"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(0, 42, 246); font-size: 10pt; ">sbebawi@swin.edu.au</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 9pt; ">About the Journal<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">The Australian Edition is a member of the innovative and original </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: windowtext; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; ">Global
Media Journal</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; ">: an online-only, open access, global resource for communication and media studies scholarship, with independent editions around the world. The
Australian edition of Global Media Journal invites the submission of essays and research reports that focus on any aspects in the field of Communication, Media and Journalism. The Global Media Journal continues to expand worldwide, adding new editions, including
African, Australian, and Persian editions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dr Diana Bossio<br>
Lecturer<br>
Media and Communications<br>
Swinburne University</span></p>
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