<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div>Dear Colleagues</div><div>Please find below the call for abstracts/proposals for the preconference workshop on South Asian media and communication at the upcoming ICA conference in London (2013). We request you to circulate this widely among your colleagues and students. Attached also is a pdf version. </div>
<div>Thanks and Regards</div><div>Steve McDowell</div><div>Sahana Udupa</div><div> </div><div>****</div><div> </div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><table border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Changing South Asian Communications Scholarship</span></b></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center">
<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Call for Paper Proposals/ Abstracts</span></b></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman"></font></td>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3"> </font></span></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Research paper abstracts are invited for this pre-conference workshop, to be held on June 16 and 17, 2013 prior to the International Communication Association 2013 meetings in London, England.<span> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The pre-conference will include panels of research papers, as well as invited speakers.</span></font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to Sahana Udupa (</font></span><a href="mailto:udupa@mmg.mpg.de" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font color="#0000ff" size="3">udupa@mmg.mpg.de</font></span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">) and Steve McDowell (</font></span><a href="mailto:steve.mcdowell@cci.fsu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font color="#0000ff" size="3">steve.mcdowell@cci.fsu.edu</font></span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">) by December 1, 2012.<span> </span>Authors will be notified of acceptance by January 15, 2013.<span> </span>Full papers will be requested by May 15, 2013 for online posting for other participants.<span> </span></font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">The workshop is co-sponsored by the ICA Communication Law and Policy Division, the University of Pennsylvania, Jamia Millia Islamia, Shiv Nadar University, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and Florida State University.<span> </span></font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The workshop will be held at the</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Khalili Lecture Theatre (Russell Square), </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London on June 16 and 17, 2013.<span> </span></span></font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">Registration cost will be $75 USD per person, which covers breaks, lunches, and a reception.</font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">Background:</font></span></b></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">Home to more than a billion and one half people, South Asia enjoys a shared history combined with a unique cultural, religious, political, linguistic, and ethnic diversity. South Asian media reflects this diversity through its cultural products, which are becoming increasingly popular throughout the region and in other parts of the world. The rapid growth of media and communication, including print, sound recording, television, new media, telecommunications, and mobile devices and applications, point to the importance of South Asia, of its linkages to other parts of the world, of media industries, and of public policies that govern these sectors. The expanding media in South Asia and their growing salience in the processes of globalization call for a robust research agenda with diverse disciplinary approaches and concerted efforts to strengthen communications scholarship in the region.</font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">First of its kind to focus exclusively on South Asian media, this preconference showcases most recent scholarly work on media growth and communications policy in the region and their significance for broader communications scholarship. It is a major meeting point for scholars studying South Asian media and communication, and an opportunity to review and advance communications research and training in the region. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span>It will cover a range of topics on new media as well as conventional media, to provide a critical account of the media changes underway in South Asia and their implications for national politics, regional political dynamics and public cultures. </span></font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">The preconference will be a major contribution to consolidate, review and reflect on the existing body of communications scholarship and communications education in the region. It will provide a fillip to the emerging area of communications scholarship by strengthening the networks of knowledge and professional collaboration and exchange among media educators. It will complement and expand existing efforts of communications scholars studying the profound political and cultural changes unleashed by media in the last two decades of rapid globalization in the region.<span> </span></font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The preconference will address most important issues related to new media and conventional media, by inviting </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB">presentations from scholars exploring South Asian media from various disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, cultural studies and political science, alongside media and communications studies.<span> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The list of topics covered by the preconference includes, if not limited to: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">media enabled political cultures and political activisms; mapping media and communications systems; media and information policy; labour in the communications sector; the state and futures of public service media; emerging fields of interest in communications studies; and, media uses and media cultures within South Asia and among the South Asian diaspora. The panels will be followed by a round table discussion among members of the organizing committee and invited experts to review the field of communications scholarship on South Asia and discuss plans and agendas for future research. The preconference also aims to establish a venue for discussing emerging trends and challenges of communications training in the region and develop a communications education agenda for media educators and scholars. It will explore ways to enhance regional cooperation in developing curriculum and pedagogical practices for communications studies. </span></font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Recognizing the growing importance of media for the political and cultural landscapes of South Asia and for the South Asian diaspora, the preconference will also </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB">invite some guests from the government, media, and community sectors in London to present as appropriate, in a keynote or roundtable/panel capacity.<span> </span>This will allow us to make use of the unique attributes of London as a city with strong representation of media and South Asians. <span> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This preconference builds on an earlier preconference on Indian media organized in Chicago (ICA 2009), and a network of scholars set up as part of our on-going efforts to boost communications scholarship on South Asia.<i> </i></span></font></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><font size="3">Members of the organizing committee include:</font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Biswajit Das, Jamia Millia Islamia</font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Radha Hegde, New York University</font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Steve McDowell, Florida State University </font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Vibodh Parasarathi, Jamia Millia Islamia</font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Monroe Price, University of Pennsylvania </font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Jyotika Ramaprasad, University of Miami</font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Azmat Rasul, University of the Punjab. Florida State U</font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Subir Sinha, University of London</font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Laura Stein, University of Texas at Austin</font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Sahana Udupa, Max Planck Institute</font></span></p>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Mohammad Shahid Ullah - University of Chittagong</font></span></p>
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