[Air-l] OURMedia 06 Conference Sydney April 2007: full program now online

[Tanya Notley]

The OURMedia 06 International Conference, Sustainable Futures: Roles and
Challenges for Community, Alternative and Citizens' Media in the 21st
Century will be held in Sydney April 9-13th 2007.

The full program and schedule are now online: http://www.ourmedia07.net/

The conference includes 130 presentations and workshops that will be
delivered by international and national experts, researchers, funding
bodies, policy makers, activists and local community development
practitioners from 40 different countries.  

OURMedia aims to build strategies and collaborations amongst action
researchers, engaged academics, community practitioners, artists and
advocates for the promotion of communication rights, effective access to
ICT, community and citizen participation in the media and community
engagements that foster social change, women's participation in the sector
and cultural development and revitalisation. The OM6 conference will explore
the significance of independent community and alternative media and the
major challenges in the decades lying ahead. 

Keynote panelists & invited speakers

.	John D.H. Downing (Professor of International Communication;
Founding 
	Director, Global
	Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University, USA)
.	Sharon Bhagwan Rolls (Founding Director, femLINKPACIFIC: Media
Initiatives for Women, Fiji. AMARC Asia-Pacific)
.	Luis Evaristo dos Santos Soares (Coordinator, Community Radio
Center, 	Timor Leste)
.	Suman Basnet (World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
[AMARC 	AP]- Regional Coordinator for Asia and Pacific regions, Nepal)
.	Stuart Allan (Professor of Cultural Studies, University of the West
of 	England, UK)
.	Faye Ginsburg (Professor of Anthropology; Director, Centre for
Media, 	Culture & History, New York University, USA)
.	Helen Molnar (Executive Director, MC Media & Associates)
.	Clemencia Rodriguez (Oklahoma University; Our Media Network)
.	Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron (Communication for Social Change Consortium;
Our Media Network)
.	Robert A. Hackett (Simon Fraser University; NewsWatch Canada)
.	Dorothy Kidd (University of San Francisco; Media Alliance, USA)
.	Andrew Garton (Association for Progressive Communications,
Australia)
.	Barry Melville (President, Community Broadcasting Association of
Australia)
.	Nalaka Gunawardene (Director and CEO, Television for Education -
Asia 	Pacific [TVEAP])
.	Kosala Keerthirathne (Kothmale Community Media Centre - UNESCO
Program 	Coordinator)
.	Raghu Mainali (Director, Community Radio Support Centre, NEFEJ,
Nepal)



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Tanya Notley
OM6 Organizing Committee Member
PhD Candidate
Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation
Queensland University of Technology
Email: t.notley at qut.edu.au

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A network of alternative, community & citizens media research and practice
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6th Conference: Sydney, April 2007
http://www.ourmedia07.net/