Conference Papers

Here you will find links to papers received for the Media, Communication & Humanity 2008 conference.  We will continue to post papers as and when we receive them. Please contact the authors if you want to cite these papers. To find a particular paper/presenter check the programme to identify which parallel strand they are speaking in and then click on the corresponding link below.

Please click on the link for Plenary Papers submitted during the plenary sessions.

1. Communication and Difference - critical analysis of mediated inclusion and exclusion; the politics of otherness, representation and power; media framing, cultural practices and hegemony; ideology and normalization; technology and everyday life; the hybridization, homogeneity and heterogeneity of cultures, particularly as regards gender, ethnicities and identities.
    
2. Democracy, Politics and Journalism Ethics – the significance of media in the information and communication environments of democratic societies; the mediation of suffering and journalism ethics and morality; the media and conflict; citizens’ engagement in changing public spheres and participation in global social movements; the professionalisation and marketing of politics, political campaigning and civic culture; and alternative media and communication rights.
    
3. Globalisation and Comparative Studies - media in national and comparative perspective - global, national and local; global trends in media representations; transnational shifts in the mediation of ethnicity, youth, gender and human rights; media history and socio-political change in established and transitional economies; issues of power, imperialism and corporate dominance;
    
4. Innovation, Governance and Policy - consequences of the uneven spread of technologies in the context of changing relationships among states, governments and civil society, including ‘digital divide’ policies, governance of new media/ICT; and innovations in the field public service regulation and with respect to communication networks including privacy, surveillance standardization and intellectual property rights, peer to peer production and open source.
    
5. Media and New Media Literacies - new literacies and interpretative practices associated with changing media technologies, including the aesthetics of mediation processes; expressions of identity, adult and youthful responses to mediated risks and opportunities; the nature of story telling online; and developments in user- generated content through social networks, using intimate technologies and participatory architectures.

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