Wednesday, December 7, 2011

JRE 2012-CFP

Journalism Research & Education Section
International Association for Media and Communication Research
Durban, South Africa, July 15-19, 2012

The Journalism Research & Education Section invites submissions for its open sessions at the IAMCR that will be held from July 15-19, 2012 at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa.

"Journalism as a tool for conversation" is not limited to conversations between journalists and their prospective audiences, but also related to high quality conversation for democracy.

The Journalism Research & Education Section thus invites submission within the general theme of 'South-North Conversations', by raising a main question: "What can we expect of Journalism research and education in addressing such conversations (North-South) or (South/South)?" through the lens of the five JRE themes:
First Themes: International Collaborative Research in Journalism Research: New Challenges and Emergent Perspectives
Second Theme: Innovations in Journalism
Third Theme: The Professional Journalism
Fourth Theme: Methods for Quantified Professional Journalism
Fifth Theme: Generic Studies of Journalism

The OCS system at will open on December 1, 2011, and will close on February 14, 2012.

Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be communicated to individual applicants by JRE section chair no later than March 12; 2012.On the same day, March 12, 2012, conference registration will open for bookings by participants.

For those whose abstracts are accepted, full conference papers are to be submitted via the IAMCR OCS by June 10, 2011. IAMCR accepts presentations in English, French and Spanish. However, it is requested that abstracts, if at all possible, be submitted in English.

Further information about IAMCR and this conference is available on the respective websites: www.iamcr.org/iamcr2012cfp or at the Durban 2012 Conference website http://www.iamcr2012.ukzn.ac.za/

Ibrahim Saleh

Chair, Journalism Research & Education Section-IAMCR

Email: jre09is@gmail.com
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