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 realities and identify effective practices that can make a real difference in people’s lives. We need to go beyond post-development critiques and embrace a politics of the possible for the 21st century.”
The conference looks into new ways of exploring solutions to persistent problems presents opportunities for innovative engagement with CSC theory, methods, product design and policy. In the context of massive investments in new technologies, for instance, it makes sense to explore nuanced and critical uses of Actor Network Theory to better understand the crosscutting influences of technologies, people and networks in change. As significantly, it looks into Urban Studies, Political Economy and Cultural Studies to understand the nature of communication rights in increasingly urban, technologically mediated contexts.
For more information, please visit: http://www.uq.edu.au/ccsc/centre-conference