CONFERENCE: 9-13 APRIL

OurMedia conference

www.ourmedia07.net

UTS, 9-13 April

Sustainable Futures: Roles and Challenges for Community, Alternative and Citizens’ Media in the 21st century

In bringing together international and national leaders, researchers, policy makers, activists, alternative media practitioners and community development workers we will debate the roles and challenges for the future of participatory media. The main issues we want to address are:
How do we understand the future of community and alternative cultural production and how can we ensure a sustainable future for community and alternative media practices?

Confirmed keynote panelists:

John D.H. Downing, Professor of International Communication, Founding Director, Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University, USA
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, Founding Director, femLINKPACIFIC: Media Initiatives for Women, Fiji. AMARC Asia-Pacific, Sponsored by Australian National Commission for UNESCO
Stuart Allan, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, UK
Faye Ginsburg, Professor of Anthropology, Director, Centre for Media, Culture & History, New York University, USA
Helen Molnar, Executive Director, MC Media & Associates
Jan Servaes, Professor of Communication, University of Queensland, Australia
Clemencia Rodriguez, Oklahoma University, Our Media Network
Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron, Communication for Social Change Consortium; Our Media Network
Robert A. Hackett, Simon Fraser University; NewsWatch Canada
Dorothy Kidd, University of San Francisco; Media Alliance, USA
Andrew Garton, OPEN CHANNEL & Association for Progressive Communications (APC) - Australia
Michael Meadows, Associate Professor of Journalism, Griffith University