Dear friends and colleagues,

the programme for this year's OURMedia event has been finalized. You  
can find it here:  
http://www.iamcr.org/2013/OURMedia_IAMCR_Pre-conference.pdf.

The event ‘Dealing with Crisis: Community, Alternative, Citizens’ and  
Social Media in Times of Change’ is a pre-conference to the annual  
IAMCR conference, and it is organised by OURMedia, the Community  
Communication section of IAMCR, Dublin Community Television, and the  
Community Radio Forum of Ireland (CRAOL), in collaboration with the  
Global Media and Social Change division of the ICA.

The pre-conference will be held June 24-25, with Day 1 at the  
wonderful City Wall space in central Dublin and Day 2 at Dublin City  
University where the main IAMCR conference will be held. The programme  
also includes an evening event on June 24 at Liberty Hall, one of the  
most iconic buildings in Dublin.

Our programme features a range of academic research papers dealing  
with the pre-conference theme, along with panels, video presentations  
and workshops that will be of interest to both scholars and local  
media activists and practitioners. The pre-conference organising  
committee has involved scholars from the Community Communication  
section working closely with our Dublin friends from the Dublin City  
Community Media Forum, Dublin Community Television and other local  
groups.

The pre-conference is free and does not require registration. We hope  
to see many IAMCR participants at the event, as well as other members  
of the OURMedia network.

Best,
Arne