Conference Announcement "Media and Identity in Asia" International Interdisciplinary Conference Media-Asia Research Group, Curtin University of Technology, Perth Curtin University of Technology, Sarawak Sarawak (Malaysia) 15-16 February 2006
The Media-Asia Research Group is based at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. It has members from Australia and Asia dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary research on the media in Asia. This conference is jointly organised by Curtin University of Technology, Perth, and Curtin University of Technology, Sarawak, Malaysia. The debate over "media/cultural imperialism" of the west has become complicated in the last two decades by the emergence of media technologies which allow messages and images, on the one hand, to be instantly broadcast across the globe; and on the other, to be produced relatively cheaply for narrow-casting to sub-national groups both within and across national boundaries. If the 20th century was the era of the nation being imagined in print and broadcast media, then in the 21st century that imagination maybe under challenge by new technologies that enable the imagination of new politico-cultural topographies. The purpose of this conference is to address the shape of national, local, ethnicised and gendered identities being formulated by and in the media in Asia in the 21st century. This is an international, interdisciplinary conference which invites analytical papers focusing on one or more of the following issues and themes: * Gender and the Media * Re-visiting the Media/Cultural Imperialism Debate * Media Law / Censorship and Regulation in the Media * New vs Traditional Media * Internet Studies * ICT for Development * Media Industries and Corporate Communication * Media Education * Media Networking * Representation of Asian Identities in the Foreign Media * Language, Rhetoric and Identity in the Media For more information please contact the conference secretariat by email at: [email protected] Conference website: http://mediaandidentity.curtin.edu.my _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
