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Centre for Communication and Social Change Conference 2013
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The Centre for Communication and Social Change of the University of Queensland is holding its inaugural boutique conference on January 29-31, 2013. With the theme, Beyond the Impasse: Exploring New Thinking in Communication & Social Change, the conference will have keynote speakers Silvio Waisbord, Florencia Enghel,  Jo Tacchi. Centre co-director A/P Pradip Thomas said “As scholars working in the field of CSC, it falls to us to provide a coherent critique of contemporary

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

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The College of Development Communication (CDC) in the University of the Philippines Los Banos is now Center of Excellence (COE) in Development Communication as declared by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). The CDC now serves as a potent catalyst for world-class scholarships, best practices, innovative curriculum, research and extension, and professional development in communication. A Center of Excellence (COE) is either a public or private higher education institution which

4th International Conference on Environmental and Rural Development
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The International Society of Environmental and Rural Development is pleased to announce the 4th International Conference on Environmental and Rural Development to be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, 19-20 January 2013. The main objective of this conference is to discuss and develop the suitable and effective processes and strategies for sustainable rural development taking into account of agricultural and environmental aspects in developing countries. Scientists and facilitators of all disciplines

FEMSCRIPT Participatory Video to Empower Women
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The FEMSCRIPT project was designed to empower women in the Niger Delta to make their voices heard in the public arena and highlight women’s human rights issues through participatory video. Led by Media Information Narrative Development (MIND), in collaboration with Stichting FLL from the Netherlands who conducted the participatory video training, the project was supported by CORDAID and the Netherlands Embassy in Nigeria. The project included training, the provision of

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

New Development Symposium 2013
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CFP: Is There a New Development? Symposium 5-6 April 2013 The promise and politics of provincializing experts, models, and knowledge in the 21st century Abstracts due: 1 February 2013 Development, understood as a set of aspirations, an organizational field, sets of expertise, or a guiding imaginary has shifted in response to the post-colonial growth of democracy in the South, the rise of multi-stakeholder partnerships and sustainability discourses, and the frenzied

E-Course in Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue
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UNESCO supports the launch of an online course in Media and Information Literacy (MIL) and intercultural dialogue. The course is designed for teachers, policy makers and professionals to become agents of change through the development of MIL competencies in their communities and through enhancing intercultural understanding. It is led by the Media and Information Literacy (MIL) and Intercultural Dialogue University Network and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and will

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