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Joint IAMCR & ICA Symposium on "Digital Divide"
The International Communication Association (ICA) and the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) have announced a symposium to be jointly convened by the presidents of the two groups: Manuel Pares I Maicas (Spain) and Joseph N. Cappella (United States). The organizing committee consists of members of both ICA and IAMCR. The University of Texas, Austin, College of Communication, under Dean Ellen Wartella, will host and co-sponsor the event. The International Federation of Communication Associations also supports the symposium.
Focus
New Communication and information technologies are central to the economic,
educational, and social development of individual nations and the global community.
Much previous research has shown significant differences among social groups
within nations and among nations in access to and utilization of new communication
and information technologies. This has come to be called the digital divide.
The conference organizers invite scholarly contributions on any issue related to the digital divide. Possibilities include but are not limited to the following:
What is the nature of the divisions that constitutes the digital divide?
Is the divide growing or receding?
How does the divide differ in developing regions versus industrialized countries?
What epistemologies and disciplines will facilitate the study of the digital divide?
What is hidden and revealed by particular epistemological approaches?
What are the consequences of a temporary or permanent divide in access, use, and facility with new technologies and the Internet?
What impact will the digital divide have on social stratification, on culture, on economy and on politics within and between countries?
Finally, how should public intellectuals use their knowledge and expertise to reduce the short and long term negative consequences implied by the digital divide?
Format
The conference will start on Friday, November 16, end on Sunday, November
18, 2001. Friday and Saturday will be kicked-off by invited keynote speakers
from the business and policy area, followed by a panel of discussants. There
will be several competitive paper sessions from the submissions. On Sunday the
conference will end with several workshops.
Proposals
To be considered for participation, please forward a proposal of 2 to 4
pages in length to the program chair. Papers will be peer reviewed, must address
the symposium theme, and must be explicit about the empirical basis of the paper's
evidence. The symposium language will be English. Proposals must be received
by May 31, 2001. For additional information, writte to Wolfgang
Donsbach, Department of Communication, Dresden University of Technology,
01062 Dresden, Germany, call +49.351.463.3533, or fax +49.351.463.7067.
April 6. La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, September 26-28, 2001. Political Communication section of the Spanish Political Science Association (Asociacion Espanola de Ciencia Politica). For work related to electronic democracy, political manipulation, and media and conflict, send your message to the attention of Ramon Cotarelo, University of Madrid. For papers and proposals on elections, political ads, political economy of media, media production or institutions, media and sociopolitical identities, and collective deliberation, contact Victor Sampedro Blanco, University of Salamanca.
April 30. "Visions and Divisions, Challenges to European Sociology," European Sociological Association, Helsinki 2001 Conference, August 28 – September 1, 2001. Write to the conference Secretariat or to Anna Rotkirch.
July 1. University of Tampere, Finland, September 13-15, 2001. Politics and the Arts Conference, "Identity, Narrative, Order." Write to Matti Hyvarinen, Research Institute for Social Sciences, 33014 University of Tampere, Finland; call +358-3-2156999.
Political communication scholars whose work touches on the role of advertising in society, culture, history and the economy are invited to submit their work to Advertising & Society Review.
The Advertising Educational Foundation (AEF) began publishing the interdisciplinary, electronic-only journal in Fall 2000. Managing Editor Sylvia Lim of Duke University wanted our readers to know that the journal has an entire issue devoted to political advertising.
The editor is William M. O'Barr, professor and chair of Cultural Anthropology. Manuscripts that deal specifically with advertising techniques and effectiveness of advertising, unless tied to the broader interests of the journal, will not be accepted. Submit manuscripts as an e-mail attachment.
So far the journal has published the following numbers:
Issue 1, an anthology of classic articles in the field
Issue 2, research on political advertising
Issue 3, a bibliographic guide to the field
Three issues are available on the Internet at the AEF site (follow links to JOURNAL). Our check of the site found that the content of each issue is only accessible to subscribers.
The journal is peer-reviewed and distributed quarterly by the Johns Hopkins University Press through Project Muse.
May 1. Volume 6 of the book series Studies in Communications (Elsevier Science Publishers) seeks submissions on the theme, "Human Rights and Media." For guidelines, write to Diana Papademas, Sociology/SUNY/Old Westbury, 3 Anchorage Lane 7B, Oyster Bay, NY 11771 or call (516) 922-3047.
July 1. Communication Yearbook 26 seeks submissions of research reviews. Initial submission may be in the form of extended abstracts or complete papers. Submit four copies to Bill Gudykunst, Department of Speech Communication, California State University, Fullerton, CA 92834-6868.