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From: Priya Kapoor [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Book Project Title: Community and Transnational Media Trajectories

Community radio in South Asia can be described as a social movement sparked
by the proliferation of information technologies, the debates on the digital
divide, and lobbying by civil society sectors, calling on nations for not
having policies on community media.  The confluence of not-for-profit
stakeholdership, the availability of technologies, local youth ingenuity,
cautious political will, has spurred the emergence of community radio in
several parts of the world especially South Asia. The question pertinent
here is why now and why radio? The phenomena of community radio in the South
Asian region requires that there be a greater reflection on movements
(political, social, cultural) across the world  and not just within S. Asia,
where there is a similar coming together of new media technology, local and
national political ferment, youth mobilization and resultant efforts at
institution building. 

This is a request for abstracts of papers from those who are studying
emerging socio-cultural-political movements that have resulted in building
media systems locally, in opposition to existing hegemonic conglomerate
media, thereby creating a cultural shift in how a particular local or global
issue is understood.  The submitted papers need to be studies conducted in
local contexts and communities using critical and qualitative methodologies
and theory, not simply reflective writing. The edited volume for which there
is an interested publisher, purports to be a collection of essays that shows
communication scholars how to enquire about and understand contemporary
situated social movement and media using critical perspectives and theories,
especially transnational, post-colonial, feminist studies . Please send an
abstract of 500 words, of the desired contribution by August 1 and send the
completed paper, pending approval, by October 15. Contact Priya Kapoor,
Associate Professor, Portland State University at [log in to unmask]

	


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