CALL FOR PAPERS Media, Culture and Change across the Pacific: Perspectives from Asia, Oceaniaand the Americas 16-17 November 2015 Pontificia Universidad Católica Lima, Peru. http://conferencia.pucp.edu.pe/media-practices/ As the Pacific century gathers pace, important questions arise about the mediaand communication dimensions of processes of social, economic and culturalchange currently under way across the vast Pacific region. Ongoing negotiationsaround a controversial trade agreement affecting 40% of the world’s economicoutput, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), have added urgency to theneed for greater collaboration among Pacific scholars and researchers. Although the interdisciplinary field of mediaand communication studies, including the anthropology of media, is presentlyflourishing in this part of the world, most research to date has taken placewithin national or sub-regional scholarly networks. In addition, the NorthAtlantic region maintains its central position within the field. As a result,most East Asian scholars of media and communication still know little aboutempirical and theoretical developments in the Americas, Australasia or thePacific islands – and vice versa. The aim of this conference is to bringtogether media anthropologists and other media and communication scholars andresearchers from across the region to share their current research, compare andcontrast findings, and discuss possible research collaborations and fundingbids. The conference will also serve to launch a new interdisciplinary network:the Trans-Pacific Media ResearchNetwork. We invite abstracts in English, max. 250words, from media anthropologists and other media and communication scholarsconducting research anywhere in the Pacific region, i.e. East and SoutheastAsia, Australasia, the Pacific islands, and Pacific countries in the Americas.Abstracts can be based on local, national or transnational research. Potential topics include, but arenot limited to: · Regional and sub-regional media flows · Media theorybeyond the North Atlantic · The geopoliticsof media technologies in the Pacific · Media ownership and ‘liberalisation’ · Radio,television, and print media in the digital age · Social mediaand inter-generational relations · Media andsocial identity (e.g. gendered, religious, cultural) · The uses ofdigital media in disaster communication · Internetfreedom and control in the post-Snowden era · New and oldmedia for protest and civic engagement · Mobile phonesfor increasingly mobile lives and livelihoods · Historicalperspectives on media and communication The abstracts are to be submitted by 15October 2015. Selected abstract authors will then be askedto submit full papers in English, max. 6000 words, by 10 November 2015. The best papers will be published in aninvited special issue of the international journal Media, Culture and Society underthe conference theme of Media, Culture and Change across the Pacific: Perspectivesfrom Asia, Oceania and the Americas. The keynote speakers will be: John Postill (RMIT University, Melbourne) Heather Horst (RMIT University, Melbourne) Please send abstracts and questions to RaulCastro, Pontificia Universidad Católica Lima, Peru, crcastro@pucp.edu.pe A conference organized by the Master Programof Visual Anthropology - Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru - PUCP.