This is good news Arne, thank you and everyone at Dublin Community Television and the Irish community media network CRAOL.It'd be very interesting and relevant what proposals emerge for a future OM gathering and id people would like to share their papers or presentations that would be terrific too. Best, Juan Salazar On 25/06/13 7:12 PM, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Dear all, > >as the second day of our conference in Dublin is getting started, here >is just a brief update on day 1. It was a successful day, according to >all the participants that I talked with. There were consistently >around 60 participants throughout the day, with up to 100 at peak >times. Participants included local Irish media activists but also many >international guests who are here for the IAMCR conference. We've had >several OURMedia 'veterans' like John Downing, Amparo Cadavid, >Stefania Milan, Bob Hackett, and others, but also many new faces and >many older and younger scholars for whom this has been the first >OURMedia experience. > >Sessions ranged from discussions on the media situation in Ireland to >interactive Skype debates on community media in Cyprus and in the >Middle East, and addressed community radio as well as new social >media. Our friends from Dublin Community Television did a tremendous >job in organising the logistics and some parts of the programme, and >the Irish community media network CRAOL generously supported the event. > >Day 1 took place at a nice venue in central Dublin. Day 2 is starting >now at Dublin City University. > >Best, >Arne