[Air-L] CFP: Exploring New Media Worlds, Texas A&M, Feb 29-March 2

[Holly Kruse]

Exploring New Media Worlds:
Changing Technologies, Industries, Cultures, and Audiences
in Global and Historical Context
 
An international conference hosted by
Texas A&M University, February 29 to March 2, 2008
 
Integrating fields of study in a time of change; setting a new agenda for
media studies.  
 
Papers and proposals are invited on any aspect of the conference themes,
offering reports of new research, position-taking conceptual essays,
discussions of media and telecommunication policy, and both international
and historical comparisons on changing technologies, industries, cultures,
and audiences.
 
The program will include keynote speakers, roundtable discussions, thematic
panels, prominent scholars as respondents, and time for interaction.  A wide
selection of papers from the conference will be published.  Travel grants
are available for student members of the National Communication Association
(see our webpage for more information).
 
Send papers or proposals (abstracts or annotated outlines) with a 50 word
professional biography by email attachment to mediaworlds at libarts.tamu.edu.
Panel proposals are also acceptable.  Deadline:  November 20, 2007.
 
For more information see http://comm.tamu.edu/mediaworlds
email mediaworlds at libarts.tamu.edu or Rothenbuhler at tamu.edu.
 
Keynote speakers:
Larry Grossberg; Steve Jones; Vinny Mosco; and Ellen Seiter.
 
Confirmed participants:
Carole Blair, Sandra Braman, Celeste Condit, Bruce Gronbeck, Andrea Press,
Ronald Rice, Paddy Scannell, Joseph Turow, Angharad Valdivia.
 
And the Texas A&M faculty:
Patrick Burkart, Heidi Campbell, Antonio La Pastina, Srivi Ramasubramanian,
Eric Rothenbuhler, Michael Stephenson, Randy Sumpter, and Ian Weber plus
strong faculty groups in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Health Communication,
and Organizational Communication.
 
The Exploring New Media Worlds conference is hosted and co-sponsored by the
Department of Communication, the College of Liberal Arts, the Glasscock
Center for Humanities Research, and the Program in Presidential Rhetoric,
Texas A&M University, with support from the National Communication
Association.