Call for papersCOMMUNICATION, CONTEXT AND COMMUNITY2012 Indonesia

International Conference on Communication (IICC)Department of Communication, Universitas Indonesia Thursday-Friday, 6-7 December 2012Abstract Deadline: 2 July 2012 The changing dynamic of media use in a local, national, and global contextdemands unparalleled efforts in understanding how it has reshaped our‘community’. Thus, notions of how we commune become more complicated andmuch more fluid than the simplistic dichotomy between traditional (senseof belonging) and modern (economic-based) notions of communing. Asphysical and mental borders between citizens are challenged throughmedia-tion, media use, from mass media (print and broadcast media) tosocial media, reconfigures how we organise ourselves – individually,socially, politically, culturally, and economically as part of ‘acommunity’. The 2012 IICC Conference Theme, Communication, Context and Community,attempts to address the implications of how our current media use reshapescontext and the community we are part of. The study that falls within thetheme spans from diverse disciplines that deals with message disseminationand (mass) media; such as communication psychology, media and culturalstudies, visual anthropology, media economy, public relations andadvertising, journalism, political communication, television and filmstudies, marketing, and so forth. The conference theme deals with fluidconcepts of community as well as the media’s role within each context;which includes abstract concepts from nationalism, religious identity,global culture, terrorism, etc, which could all be related to (as well aschallenge) the notion of community. The IICC biannual conference in Indonesia aims to bring together scholars,from all over the world in general and Asia Pacific in particular, tore-establish context within the scholarly field of media and communicationstudies that has long been Western-centric. Our conference in Depok, WestJava, Indonesia provides an interesting venue adjacent to Jakarta,Indonesia’s thriving metropolitan capital city, to house intellectualdiscussions and dialogues about various issues surrounding the challengesand implications of media and communications to the current world. It isour hope that through the 2012 IICC, a new community of media andcommunication scholars may emerge. Conference Programme Chair: Inaya RakhmaniUniversity of IndonesiaDepartment of CommunicationFaculty of Social and Political SciencePhone: +6221 78849018Email: 2012iicc@indoicc.org