MediAsia 2013 - The Fourth Annual Asian Conference on Media and Mass Communication 2013
8-10 November 2013, Osaka, Japan
http://www.mediasia.iafor.org
mediasia@iafor.org
Sponsored by the International Academic Forum in conjunction with its globa academic partners, including Waseda University (Japan), Birkbeck University of London (UK), The National Institute of Education (Singapore), The National University of Tainan (Taiwan), Lincoln University (UK), the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKSAR), Virginia Tech (USA), and Auburn University (USA).
To be held alongside the Second Asian Conference on Film and Documentary - FilmAsia 2013, and the Second Annual IAFOR Open Film Competition
The MediAsia event is a remarkable cross-cultural and interdisciplinary discussion, which encourage academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum encouraging lively but respectful dialogue. This international conference will bring together a number of university scholars working throughout Japan, Asia, and beyond to share ideas.
MediAsia 2013 will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education. Academics working in Japan and Asia will be encouraged to forge working relationships with each other, as well as with colleagues from Europe and the US, facilitating partnerships across borders. We hope to see you (again) in Osaka in the fall.
Professor Gary E. Swanson, Mildred S. Hansen Endowed Chair in Journalism, The University of Northern Colorado, USA
Conference Chair
Professor Tamara Swenson, Osaka Jogakuin University
Local Conference Chair
CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
Submit through the conference website at http://www.mediasia.iafor.org
MediAsia 2013 Conference Themes:
1) Social Media and Responsibility; Globalization and Internationalization
2) Connectedness, Identity and Alienation
MediAsia 2013 Keynote Speaker: Bradley J. Hamm
Dean, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, Northwestern University, USA
Bradley J. Hamm is the dean of the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University. From 2005 to 2012, Hamm was the dean of the Indiana University School of Journalism, one of the oldest programs of its kind in the United States and the world. His PhD is in mass communication research from the University of North Carolina, with a master's degree in journalism from the University of South Carolina and an undergraduate degree from Catawba College (North Carolina). He is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Catawba College in 2011 and the University of South Carolina's College of Mass Communications in 2009. He has served on the national advisory board for the Poynter Institute. Hamm has taught in Japan, China and Great Britain and started his career as a newspaper reporter. His teaching and research interests are in journalism history and media theory, particularly agenda setting theory.
MediAsia 2013 Conference Chair and Featured Speaker: Gary E. Swanson
Mildred S. Hansen Endowed Chair in Journalism, The University of Northern Colorado, USA
Gary E. Swanson is currently the Mildred S. Hansen Endowed Chair and Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence at the University of Northern Colorado, USA. From 2005-2007 Professor Swanson was a Fulbright scholar to China and lectured at Tsinghua University and the Communication University of China. In summer 2008 he was Commentator for China Central Television International (CCTV-9) and their live coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games. Swanson repeated his assignment covering the London Olympics for CCTV-4 in the summer of 2012. Previously, he was professor and director of television for nine years at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University where he taught mostly graduate broadcast students. He has been an educator for 26 years; 20 years spent teaching at the university level. Swanson is an internationally recognized and highly acclaimed documentary producer, director, editor, photojournalist, consultant and educator. He has given keynote speeches, presented workshops and lectured at embassies, conferences, festivals, and universities throughout China, South Africa, India, Papua New Guinea, Japan, The Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Singapore, Greece, Germany, Jordan, Spain, Portugal, Peru, the United Kingdom and the United States. Swanson has compiled a distinguished professional broadcast career spanning 13 years: From 1978 to 1991, Swanson worked for the National Broadcasting Company where he was honored with national EMMY's for producing and editing: 'The Silent Shame,' a prime-time investigative documentary; 'Military Medicine,' a two-part investigative series on NBC News; and 'Hotel Crime,' an investigative news magazine piece. Swanson was an editor for 'breaking news' and features for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, the Today Show, Sunrise, Sunday Today, NBC Overnight, A Closer Look, Monitor, and other prime time news magazines. Swanson covered 'breaking news' in 26 states and Canada for the network including trips and campaigns of presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Bill Clinton. Swanson was the Fulbright distinguished lecturer and consultant in television news to the government of Portugal in 1989. In 1992, he covered the XXV Olympics in Barcelona, Spain for NBC News as field producer and cameraman. Swanson has earned more than 75 awards for broadcast excellence and photojournalism including three national EMMY's, the duPont Columbia Award, two CINE 'Golden Eagles,' 16 TELLY's, the Monte Carlo International Award, the Hamburg International Media Festival's Globe Award, the Videographer Award, The Communicator Award, the Ohio State Award, the CINDY Award, the 2011 Communitas Outstanding Professor and Educator award, the 2013Professor of the Year award, and many others.
MediAsia 2013 Conference Themes:
1) Social Media and Responsibility; Globalization and Internationalization
2) Connectedness, Identity and Alienation
About the Conference Themes and Streams, see below.
1) Social Media and Responsibility; Globalization and Internationalization
As technological innovations and advances have created an ever-growing media net, and where lines have become increasingly blurred between users and consumers, questions of media accountability continue to be a constant source of discussion. Media organizations around the world are becoming increasingly socially, ethnically and culturally diverse, both as a consequence of globalization and in response to internationalization. Social media has infused itself in the lives of every young person in the developed world today. And the types of social media that we use are ever growing, evolving and changing. The way we communicate has also changed dramatically moving further away from face-to-face communication.
2) Connectedness, Identity and Alienation
Being connected through social networking sites has become an accepted form of communication in today's digitalized world. People can spend hours a day talking on mobile phones, on Skype, or on the Internet, which gives the impression that we are a more connected world than ever before. And communication is lauded. Because of the massive information flow we can call ourselves perhaps the most connected age in history. But is this connectedness, however, real or illusory? Quantity of communication does not guarantee quality. For example, to many sensitive people, when they call a number and hear the words "Please listen to the following options" the sense of connectedness suddenly becomes alienating. The crude mechanics entailed can make people feel suspicious, isolated, and even threatened by an invisible structure they cannot penetrate. A raft of serious existential issues arises out of this. What impact does this have on the self whose identity in the time/space continuum, in the rapidly changing environment, and in these manufactured structures, depends for its development on interaction with perceived reality? What becomes the definition of the human? And what of the awareness of the transcendent in the human spirit from which ethics and aesthetics depend for their existence? Far from being questions of the present moment, these are parameters that will dominate the central problem of human self-understanding as we progress further into the uncharted waters of a highly uncertain future.
The Conference themes are designed to inspire invitations of submissions that approach these topics from a variety of perspectives and approaches. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is also welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Media and Mass Communication, including the following streams:
Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations
Digital Media and Use of New Technology in Newsgathering
Communication Theory and Methodology
Critical and Cultural Studies, Gender and Communication
Media Disaster Coverage
Media History
International Communication
Law, Policy and Media Ethics
Newspapers and Magazines as Print/Digital Media
Mass Communication
Broadcast Media and Globalization
Journalism
Education and Scholastic Journalism
Sports, Media and Globalization
Media Management and Economics
Political Communication and Satire
Visual Communication
Media and Education: Training journalists
Social Media and Communication Technology
Documentary Production*
Film*
*Successful presentations in this stream will be scheduled alongside relevant papers submitted as a part of the FilmAsia sister conference.
Publishing Opportunities
Authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity of publishing their associated paper in the official conference proceedings, and a |
