10th MacBride Round Table
Amman, Jordan; 24-26 November 1998
Call for Papers (for 26 November) and Participation
CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION:
A GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
The Tenth MacBride Roundtable on Communication will hold its annual
meeting in Amman, Jordan from November 24th to 26th, 1998, in conjunction
with the Jordanian Institute of Diplomacy and Jemstone, a network of
journalists. We are inviting papers for pre sentation on the final day,
November 26th. The theme of this Round Table is "Culture and
Communication: A Global Information Society," and the emphasis of the
Round Table portion of the program will be on building global governance
structures for media a nd communication that includes civil society.
Potential conference sessions may involve the exploration of international
institutions, laws and ethics and their interface with communication.
This marks the 10th year of the MacBride Round Table. The Round Table is
an international communication rights advocate with an agenda to
accommodate scholars, activists, journalists and other communication
experts devoted to the monitoring of world commu nication, legal
ramifications, and information imbalances; and then disseminating its
findings to community groups, UN agencies, non-governmental organizations
and the news media. The MacBride Round Table was created in 1989 to
stimulate discussion of is sues embodied in the 1980 UNESCO MacBride
Report. This report was critical of imbalances in world information flows.
Nine Round Tables have been held to date: Harare (1989), Prague (1990),
Istanbul (1991), São Paulo (1992), Dublin (1993), Honolulu (1994) , Tunis
(1995) Seoul (1996), and Boulder (1997).
For the upcoming Round Table we are calling for papers that offer insight
into the dynamics of world communication. Of particular interest at this
meting will be the discussion of the institutions, laws and ethics and
interfaces with communication. Rela ted to this would be the role that
civil society might play in governance structures for media and
communication globally. Past Round Tables have focused on information
flow and equity, the new communication technologies, the information super
highway, t he role of women, indigenous people and other marginalized
groups in society, and grassroots communication activities. The Round
Table is also a sponsor for the World Congress on Media and Communication,
currently in its planning stages.
The Amman Round Table will run alongside the Jordanian Institute of
Diplomacy and Jemstone meeting.
VENUE: Amra Forum Hotel (tentative), Amman, Jordan
ABSTRACTS BY: Monday, October 5th; ACCEPTANCE NOTICES: by October 10th
For MORE INFORMATION on the MacBride Round Table and the Conference, see:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rvincent/macbride.htm
or contact:
Dr. Richard C. Vincent: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Past President/Vice Chair, MacBride Round Table
2560 Campus Road, Room 336, Department of Communication
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
telephone: +1 808.956.3352; fax +1 808.956.5589 or +1 808.956.5591
or
Seán Ó Siochrú: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Secretary General, MacBride Round Table
14 Eaton Brae, Shankill Co. Dublin, IRELAND
Tel: +353 1 282 1003 or 473 9599; fax +353 1 272 0034 or 4730597
1997-98 MacBride Round Table Steering Committee:
President/Chairperson: Mustapha Masmoudi (Tunisia)
Past President/Vice Chairperson: Kyung-Ja Lee (Korea)
Past President/Vice Chairperson: Richard C. Vincent (USA)
Secretary General and Treasurer: Seán Ó Siochrú (Ireland)
Members:
Andrew Calabrese (USA); Alternate: Hemant Shah (USA)
Kaarle Nordenstreng (Finland); Alternate: Zala Volcic (Slovenia)
HRH Princess Wijdan Ali (Jordan); Alternate: Marlene Francia (Philippines)
Sakae Ishikawa (Japan); Alternate: Pradip Thomas (UK)
Alain Ambrosi (Canada); Alternate: Wolfgang Kleinwaechter (Germany)
Auditing Committee: Hans Klein, Marc Raboy, and Stanford Mukasa
