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Pacific Media Innovation Fund: call for applications
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The Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS) Innovation Fund has been established to provide funding support to Pacific stakeholders and development partners that play a role in media and communications in the region. It is designed to help build both technical and creative capacity of the Pacific media and communication sectors. PACMAS is looking for home-grown innovative activities that promote and support Communication for Development through: creation of new media content that

PhD scholarship in Communication and Social Change
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Roskilde University (RUC) is offering a 3-year PhD scholarship in the research area of Communication for Social Change, starting September 2013. The scholarship is co-financed between RUC Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies (CBIT) and the Danish NGO ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency). The successful candidate will research, analyse and position ADRA Denmark’s extensive experience with communication for social change vis-à-vis the current debates of how civil society in developing countries, particularly in Africa, make

The 2013 Conference on Communication and Environment in Uppsala
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The 12th Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) will be held at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala, Sweden from 6-10 June 2013. The conference theme is Environmental Communication: Participation Revisited – openings and closures for deliberations on the Commons.  The Earth Summit in Rio 1992 declared that environmental issues should be “best handled by participation of all concerned citizens at the relevant level”. Twenty years after, improved institutional frameworks

Call for abstracts on ComDev
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The 2nd Nordic Conference for Development Research will take place on 14-15 November 2013 in Helsinki, Finland. It provides a platform for researchers, government representatives and NGO-practitioners to discuss the role, methodologies and dilemmas of knowledge production in and for development. The conference invites submissions of abstracts to a number of thematic working groups. Among these: WG 15: Communications for development – the role of the media in achieving development goals With

Call for articles: Philippine Journal of Development Communication
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The Philippine Journal of Development Communication is accepting article contributions for the 2013 issues. Articles should have a high degree of scholarship and results of original work, and must not have been published on other journals nor simultaneously submitted to other publications. Articles must focus on: 1. Research in development communication (including literature synthesis and meta-analyses)2. Reflections on development communication practice (project reports with synthesis of lessons learned and how

World Radio Day 2013
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Wednesday February 13 is the international World Radio Day 2013 – proclaimed by UNESCO in 2011, it celebrates radio as a medium and promotes access to information and freedom of expression over the airwaves. Radio continues to reach the widest audience worldwide. This multi-purpose and low-cost medium helps people engage in discussions on topics that affect them, report facts and tell stories. It is specifically suited to reach remote communities

CfCSC Conference on Communication and Social Change
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The Centre for Communication and Social Change (CfCSC) is holding its inaugural boutique conference titled “Beyond the Impasse: Exploring New Thinking in Communication & Social Change”. The conference will be held on January 29-31, 2013 at The University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia. In the words of the CCfSC co-director Pradip Thomas: “Over the past decade, innovation in critical communication for social change (CSC) theory has failed to keep pace

Climate Change Communication and the Internet
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The Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester will be hosting a workshop on “Climate Change Communication and the Internet: Challenges and Opportunities for Research“ on Thursday 12 April, 2013. The new communicative landscape shaped by Internet and mobile technologies has had profound implications for communication research on climate change and environment. It has opened up new areas for studying public engagement with science, as the audiences are becoming

2013 IAMCR Conference - Call for Papers
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The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites papers and panel proposals for the 2013 IAMCR conference to be held from 25 to 29 June, 2013 at the Helix Conference Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland. The overarching theme of the 2013 IAMCR conference is “Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power and Communication Orders”. The conference theme invites reflections and papers addressing whether or how the current

Call for participation: International Conference of Communication, Media Studies and Design
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The International Conference of Communication, Media Studies and Design Abstract Submissions Deadline: January 31, 2013 May 02 – 04, 2013 – Famagusta – Cyprus – Salamis Bay Hotel Invitation The International Conference of Communication, Media Studies and Design which is owned and organized by the Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies (OJCMT), is an international annual conference (www.cmdconf.net). This year theme of the conference for the exchange of information on