[Air-l] cfp: who uses community media?

[Marcus Foth]

From: Christina Spurgeon <c.spurgeon at qut.edu.au>
Date: 25 July 2005 3:55:29 PM
Subject: ::fc-announce:: cfp: who uses community media?

Theorising the 'Third Sector' of Media

WHO USES COMMUNITY MEDIA?

CALL FOR PAPERS

Research Stream of the Community Broadcasting Association of  
Australia National Conference in association with Creative Industries  
Research and Applications Centre, Queensland University of Technology

17-20th November 2005, The Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia

Community-based media uses and practices disrupt the social relations  
of modern media. These disruptions have been variously theorised as  
media citizenship, alternative media and radical media. But is our  
understanding of community media users as well developed as our ways  
of framing community media uses? Community media users are also  
imagined in a variety of ways: as participants, as volunteers, as  
program makers, as sponsors, and as audiences. So who, precisely, are  
the users of community media? What are the common interests and  
differences of community media users? How are these similarities and  
differences normatively supported (or not) in funding and policy  
arrangements? And how might they be theorised?

The so-called 'third' sector of Australian community broadcasting has  
its origins in liberal pluralism. It is meant to complement national  
and commercial broadcasting sectors by adding new practical  
possibilities and dimensions of meaning to media access,  
participation and representation. But to what extent is the sector  
porous to the influences of commerce and government, and do these  
influences compromise 'third' sector status? Does the 'third' sector  
of media have, and relate to, its equivalent in society at large? For  
example, are non-commercial, non-governmental agencies significant  
'third' sector media users? How do new media impact upon the 'third'  
sector status of Australian community broadcasters? What do  
international initiatives in community media contribute to our  
understanding of community media users?

Proposals are now invited for scholarly papers that address an aspect  
of the theme, 'Who Uses Community Media?', for presentation in the  
Research Stream of the Community Broadcasting Association of  
Australia's 2005 National Conference. This forum aims to provide  
academics and research students interested in community-based media  
with valuable networking, presentation, and publication  
opportunities. Contributions from a range of disciplinary,  
interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives in the humanities,  
social and applied sciences are welcome.

Abstracts for proposed papers, up to 200 words in length, should  
reach the Research Stream Coordinator by Monday 19 September, 2005  
and should also be directed to:

Who uses Community Media? Research Stream Coordinator
Christina Spurgeon
Media and Communication
Creative Industries Faculty, QUT
c.spurgeon at qut.edu.au

For more information about the CBAA National Conference please visit  
the conference pages on the CBAA website: http://www.cbaa.org.au/ 
content.php/442.html



Dr Christina Spurgeon
Lecturer, Media & Communication
Course Coordinator, Bachelor of Mass Communication
Creative Industries Faculty
Queensland University of Technology
Creative Industries Precinct, Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove Q 4059, Australia

Ph. + 61 7 3864 8184
Fax.+ 61 7 3864 8195
Email c.spurgeon at qut.edu.au

CRICOS No: 00213J



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Marcus Foth
MA(DigitalMedia) BCompSc(Hons) BMultimedia
m.foth at qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/

Research Associate
Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre
Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J)
Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia
Phone +61 7 3864 3800 - Fax +61 7 3864 3723
http://www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au/