sorry for Xposting ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ellie Rennie <ERennie@groupwise.swin.edu.au> Date: Oct 3, 2006 10:02 AM Subject: ::fc-announce:: CfP OURMedia 2007 To: announce@fibreculture.org Call for Papers OURMedia VI International Conference Sydney, Australia, April 9-13 2007 'Sustainable Futures: Roles and Challenges for Community, Alternative and Citizens' Media in the 21st century' Until recently, media participation occurred almost exclusively within the sphere of community and alternative media. Now it is a widespread phenomenon. Online mainstream news sites encourage readers to participate through blogs while others, like OhmyNews in South Korea, are substantially written by readers. Rupert Murdoch purchased MySpace with the intention of turning 'a free social network into a colossal marketing machine' (Wired, Jul 2006). What is the future of community and alternative media within this landscape? For over five decades community media advocates have campaigned for access to media platforms and promoted media literacy as part of a strategy to give voice to underrepresented groups. With the rise of broadband Internet, the core community media philosophies of access and participation have been realised on a greater scale than ever before. Media participation has now spread beyond the community-based, not-for-profit realm and into the commercial and government sectors. The cultural transformation taking place has profound implications for audiences, practitioners and policy-makers alike. Is there a social benefit in the rise of user-led media? What becomes of alternative, or citizens' media when media participation is a 'mainstream' activity? Do we need community governance or will commercial models prevail? Research into 'citizens' media' (radical media, médias libres, participatory media, tactical media, community media, and grassroots media) can assist us to understand the cultural changes taking place and the implications for the public sphere. This conference will draw together expertise from theorists, policy-makers and develop viable pathways that ensure the sustainability of citizens' media. For a full CfP and other information visit the OURMediaVI webpage: www.ourmedia07.net or contact Juan Salazar: j.salazar@uws.edu.au Ellie Rennie: erennie@swin.edu.au Abstracts due October 31, 2006 Dr Ellie Rennie Research Fellow Institute for Social Research ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation +61 3 9214 5303 0404 808 900 Education is only the beginning. Let's get on with it. Swinburne University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code: 00111D NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee. They may contain information that is privileged or protected by copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, printing, copying or use is strictly prohibited. The University does not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are secure and there is also a risk that it may be corrupted in transmission. It is your responsibility to check any attachments for viruses or defects before opening them. If you have received this transmission in error, please contact us on +61 3 9214 8000 and delete it immediately from your system. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. Please consider the environment before printing this email. _______________________________________________ ::fibreculture::announcements:: To subscribe or unsubscribe from fibreculture announce, please visit the List Info page: http://fibreculture.org/mailman/listinfo/announce_fibreculture.org Fibreculture website: http://www.fibreculture.org -- Barry Saunders QUT sessional academic http://creativeindustries.qut.com http://d-notice.net