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Thursday, 3 September 2009

[creative-radio] + English/Deutsh: UNITE AGAINST COLONIAL INJUSTICE - The Caravan Conference in Jena

UNITE AGAINST COLONIAL INJUSTICE

WEDNESDAY 9. TO SUNDAY 13. SEPTEMBER 2009 IN JENA

Caravan Platform on Colonial in Injustice with Pre-tribunal

The colonial apartheid and the double punishment of refugees and Migrants
through criminalization and persecution in Germany

Coordinated by The VOICE Refugee Forum Deutschland

The Campaign against Residenzpflicht and deportation
Felix Otto (and others) and the Refugees in Apolda coordinated by The
VOICE Jena / Caravan Hamburg

The Isolation of Refugees in lagers and heims and their struggles in the
camps to be coordinated by the Caravan for the rights of refugees and
migrants in Thueringia (Katzhütte, Gehlberg, Apolda and others) , NRW
(Remschied - Wuppertal) and Sachsen Anhalt (Möhlau) and mobilisation in
their Lagers Photo exhibitions and Films: The Caravan documentation
project on the Isolation Lagers and Camps in Thueringia

The persecution and criminalization of the refugees and migrants in
Germany and Europe

Discussions and Strategies

 Theme: We are here because you destroy our countries!
 We Set the Rules - Solidarity is our weapon!
 Discussion on alliances, support and working together in the
caravan network and the German pro colonial projects on migration and
integration
 What is the limit of the public interest and other alternatives?

Campaign and Protest

Land and Air protest against the deportation Airlines (Air France and
others), deportation Flights and against the inhumane treatments and the
brutality of the to be deported Asylum political prisoners by the German
police, prison warders and social workers.

2009 Mumia Info: The Campaign and the struggle of Mumia Abu Jamal in the
death row of the Pennsylvania prison in (USA) will be presented with
information on the latest court decision.

Motivating Exhibitions of Refugee and Migrant Protest Actions
Photo Exhibition in Grünoskwi Spot
From the 6th to 21th September 2009 Open at 2pm everyday in
Schillergäschen 5, Jena
Exhibition and information on Oury Jalloh in Günoskwi Entertainment: 5
Schillergäschen, Jena.
Photo Exhibition of Initiative Memory of Oury Jalloh from The Plataforma,
The VOICE Berlin, Umbruch-Bildarchiv Berlin, Marco Pra and Thomsen Kriska
-Thomsen Design.
Music: African Beats, Acoustic und Percussions

Live Band Concert with Inouss Landozz from Togo/NRW. Writer, Singer,
Componist and Percussionist.
Inousses Landozz is Aledjo KADARA in the north of Togo- born artist with a
real name Bebou S. Inoussa, showed his great musical talent already at a
very young age
Friday, September 11, 2009, at 9 pm. Grünowswki Garden Park -
Schillergäschen, Jena

About 45 activists have confirmed their participation from the various
cities of the Caravan network in Germany: Jena, Apolda, Reimscheid,
Hamburg, Bremen, Wüppertal, Weimar, Halle-Saale, Marke, Nurmberg , Berlin.

Original background of participating activists: from Iran, Kurdistan,
Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Syria, Guinea, Cameroon, Palestine, Afghanistan,
Azerbaijan, Iraq, Turkey, Palestine, Israel, Sri Lanka and Poland.

Participants could inform us on their interest on discussion about any
specific country and on the engagement of the activists. The Caravan
Network Co organizing Activists and facilitators of the Conference:

From Bremen: Sunny Omwenyeke, Seid Seid ; from Berlin: Mbolo Yufuyi, Mai
Zaidani; from Möhlau: Salomon Wantchoucou; from Marke / Dessau: Maman
Salissou Oumarou; from Wuppertal: Araz Ardehali, from Frankfurt: Aitak
Barani, from Jena: Osaren Igbinoba, Dr. Magsud Agaev, from Hamburg: Ralf
Lorenzo, - Hamburg, from Göttingen: Tawfik Lbebidy; from Kiel: Selam
Shanan, Gassen Lbebidy

The conference input text: On Colonial Injustice and the Continuity of
Barbarity in Germany http://www.thevoiceforum.org/node/1379

All events begins daily at 10 am - 9 pm.
Discussions on the Campaign and the Pre-tribunal events will take place on
September 10 to 12, 2009. - Eating and recreation session in
Schillergäschen 5, at The VOICE Jena.

Please confirm your participation at: KarawaneKonference2009@gmx.de, Tel.
0049 (0) 176 24568988.

The Conference will take place in University of Jena (Old building)
Address: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Fürstengraben 1, 07743 Jena

The VOICE Refugee Forum Jena
Adresse: Schillergässchen 5, 07745 Jena
Tel. Handy 0049(0) 17624568988,
Fax: 03641 / 42 02 70,
E-Mail: thevoiceforum@emdash.org,
Internet: http://www.thevoiceforum.org
Gegründet: 1994, Arbeitsweise: Kampagnen,Aktionen, Vernetzung.
Publikationen: E-Newsletter

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Subject: +English/Deutsh: Karawane Konferenz "Vereinigt gegen Koloniales
Unrecht" in Jena
From: "The VOICE Refugee Forum" <thevoiceforum@emdash.org>
Date: Thu, September 3, 2009 1:38 pm
To: "The VOICE Refugee Forum" <voice_mail@emdash.org>
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UNITE AGAINST COLONIAL INJUSTICE - The Caravan Conference in Jena, 09. -
13.09.09 >> http://www.thevoiceforum.org/node/1379
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VEREINIGT GEGEN KOLONIALES UNRECHT

MITTWOCH 9. - SONNTAG 13. SEPTEMBER 2009 IN JENA

Plattform der KARAWANE über koloniales Unrecht mit einem Aufbau-Tribunal zu

Die koloniale Apartheid und die Doppelbestrafung von Flüchtlingen und
MigrantInnen durch Kriminalisierung und Verfolgung in Deutschland
Koordiniert von The VOICE Refugee Forum Deutschland

Die Kampagne gegen die Residenzpflicht und Abschiebungen
Felix Otto und andere und die Flüchtlinge in Apolda. Koordiniert von the
VOICE Refugee Forum Jena und KARAWANE Hamburg

Die Isolation von Flüchtlingen in Lagern und ihre Mobilisierung in den
Lagern Koordiniert von der KARAWANE für die Rechte der Flüchtlinge und
MigrantInnen in Thüringen (Katzhütte, Gehlberg, Apolda und weiteren),
Nordrhein-Westfalen (Remscheid , Wuppertal) und Sachsen-Anhalt (Möhlau)

Diskussionen und Strategien
- Leitmotiv: Wir sind hier, weil ihr unsere Länder zerstört
- Wir setzen die Maßstäbe - Solidarität ist unsere Waffe!
- Diskussion über Allianzen, Unterstützung und Zusammenarbeit im KARAWANE
Netzwerk und die deutschen pro-kolonialen Projekte der Migration und der
Integration
- Was sind die Grenzen des öffentlichen Interesses und was sind Alternativen?

Kampagnen und Proteste
Proteste zu Land und in der Luft gegen Deprtationsfluglinien (Air France
und andere), gegen Charterdeportationen und die unmenschliche Behandlung
und die Brutalität der abzuschiebenden politischen Flüchtlingsgefangene
durch die deutsche Polizei, Gefängniswärter, Ärzte, Sozialarbeiter ...
Die Kampagne und der Kampf von Mumia Abu Jamal in der Todeszelle im
Gefängnis in Pennsylvania/USA im aktuellen Stadium

Rahmenprogramm
Ergreifende Bilddokumentationen der Protestaktionen von Flüchtlingen und
MigrantInnen

Fotoausstellung und Informationen der Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh
von plataforma Berlin, The VOICE Berlin, Umbruch-Bildarchiv, Marco Pra und
Thomsen Kriska Design im Grünowski Entertainment, Schillergässchen 5, Jena

weitere Bild und Textdokumentationen des KARAWANE Dokumentations-Projekts
über die Isolationslager in Thüringen

Kultur
Live-Konzert mit Inouss Landozz from Togo / NRW. Autor, Sänger, Komponist
und Percussionist. Music: African Beats, Acoustic und Percussions im
Grünowski Garten, Schillergäßchen, Jena. Freitag 11.9.2009 um 21:00Uhr.

Bisher haben 45 AktivistInnen aus unterschiedlichen Regionen ihre
Teilnahme bestätigt. Sie kommen aus Städten und Orten, an denen das
KARAWANE-Netzwerk in Deutschland aktiv ist: Jena, Apolda, Remscheid,
Hamburg, Bremen, Wuppertal, Weimar, Halle-Saale, Marke, Nürnberg, Berlin.

Die ursprüngliche Herkunft der teilnehmenden Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten
ist Iran, Kurdistan, Sierra Leone, Syrien, Guinea, Kamerun, Palästina,
Afghanistan, Azerbajan, Irak, Türkei, Palästina, Israel, Sri Lanka,
Polen.

TeilnehmerInnen möchten uns über ihr Interesse an Diskussionen über jedes
bestimmte Land und über das Engagement der AktivistInnen informieren.

Die Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten, OrganisatorInnen, ModeratorInnen des
KARAWANE-Netzwerkes sind:
Aus Bremen: Sunny Omwenyeke, Seid Seid ; aus Berlin: Mbolo Yufuyi, Mai
Zaidani; aus Möhlau: Salomon Wantchoucou; aus Marke / Dessau: Maman
Salissou Oumarou; aus Wuppertal: Araz Ardehali, aus Frankfurt: Aitak
Barani, aus Jena: Osaren Igbinoba, Dr. Magsud Agaev, aus Hamburg: Ralf
Lorenzo, aus Göttingen: Tawfik Lbebidy; aus Kiel: Selam Shanan, Gassen
Lbebidy

Einen Inputtext für die Konferenz findet ihr in englischer Sprache:
On Colonial Injustice and the Continuity of Barbarity in Germany
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/1279

Bitte bestätigt Eure Teilnahme:
E-MAIL: KarawaneKonference2009@gmx.de
Tel. 0049 (0) 176 24568988

Die Konferenz findet in der Universität Jena (Altbau) statt:
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Fürstengraben 1, Jena.
Die Hauptdiskussionen und das Vortribunal: 10. - 12. September 2009,
zwischen 10:00 und 21:00 Uhr.

**

The VOICE Refugee Forum Jena,
E-Mail: thevoiceforum@emdash.org *
http://www.thevoiceforum.org
Adresse: Schillergässchen 5, 07745 Jena,
Tel. Handy 0049(0) 17624568988 *
Fax: 03641 / 42 02 70

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Adresse: Schillergässchen 5, 07745 Jena
Tel. Handy 0049(0) 17624568988,
Fax: 03641 / 42 02 70,
E-Mail: thevoiceforum@emdash.org,
Internet: http://www.thevoiceforum.org
Gegründet: 1994, Arbeitsweise: Kampagnen,Aktionen, Vernetzung.
Publikationen: E-Newsletter

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Wednesday, 2 September 2009

[creative-radio] New book: Understanding Community Media

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New Book

Kevin Howley (ed.), Understanding Community Media. Thousand Oaks:
Sage, 2009.
ISBN: 9781412959056
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This text reveals the value and significance of community media in an
era of global communication. Bringing together an international team of
scholars and practitioners, it introduces students to the emerging field
of community media studies. Throughout, contributors explore a wide
range of media institutions, forms and practices—community radio,
participatory video, street newspapers, Independent Media Centers
(IMCs), and community informatics—from around the world. Over thirty
original essays consider the particular and distinctive ways local
populations make use of various technologies for purposes of community
communication. The collection provides an incisive and timely analysis
of the relationship between media and society, technology and culture,
and communication and community.

CONTENTS

PART I. THEORETICAL ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES

1. Social Solidarity and Constituency Relationships in Community Radio
Charles Fairchild

2. Democratic Potential of Citizens' Media Practices
Pantelis Vatikiotis

3. Community Arts & Music, Community Media: Cultural Politics & Policy
in Britain since the 1960s
George McKay

4. Collaborative Pipelines
Otto Leopold Tremetzberger

5. Notes on a Theory of Community Radio
Kevin Howley

PART II. CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE

6. Re-Imagining National Belonging With Community Radio
Mojca Plansak & Zala Volcic

7. Alternative Media and the Political Public Sphere in Zimbabwe
Nkosi Ndlela

8. Toronto Street News as a Counterpublic Sphere
Vanessa Parlette

9. Evaluating Community Informatics as a Means for Local Democratic
Renewal
Ian Goodwin

10. Mapping Communication Patterns Between Romani Media and Romani NGOs
in the Republic of Macedonia
Shayna Plaut

PART III. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES

11. Aboriginal Internet Art and the Imagination of Community
Maria Victoria Guglietti

12. Media Interventions in Racialized Communities
Tanja Dreher

13. Community Collaboration in Media and Arts Activism: A Case Study
Lynette Bondarchuk & Ondine Park

14. Examining the Successes and Struggles of New Zealand's Maori TV
Rita Rahoi-Gilchrest

15. Itche Kadoozy, Orthodox Representation, & the Internet as Community
Media
Matt Sienkiewicz

PART IV. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

16. Positioning Education Within Community Media
Shawn Sobers

17. Dalitbahujan Women's Autonomous Video
Sourayan Mookerjea

18. Coketown and Its Alternative Futures
Philip Denning

19. Addressing Stigma and Discrimination Through Participatory Media
Planning
Aku Kwamie

PART V. COMMUNITY MEDIA AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

20. Indigenous Community Radio and the Struggle for Social Justice in
Colombia
Mario Alfonso Murillo

21. Ethnic Community Media and Social Change: A Case in the United
States
Dandan Liu

22. A Participatory Model of Video Making: The Case of Colectivo Perfil
Urbano
Claudia Magallanes-Blanco

23. Feminist Guerrilla Video in the Twin Cities
Brian Woodman

PART VI. COMMUNICATION POLITICS

24. Community Radio & Video, Social Activism, and Neoliberal Public
Policy in Chile During the Transition From Dictatorship to Neoliberal
Democracy
Rosalind Bresnahan

25. Past, Present, and Future of the Hungarian Community Radio Movement
Gergely Gosztonyi

26. Community Media Activists in Transnational Policy Arenas
Stefania Milan

27. Closings and Openings: Media Restructuring and the Public Sphere
Bernadette Barker-Plummer & Dorothy Kidd

28. The Rise of the Intranet Era
Sascha D. Meinrath & Victor W. Pickard

PART VII. LOCAL MEDIA, GLOBAL STRUGGLES

29. "Asking We Walk": The Zapatista Revolution of Speaking and Lis
tening

Fiona Jeffries

30. Radio Voices Without Frontiers Global Antidiscrimination Broadcast
Elvira Truglia

31. Media Activism for Global Justice
Anne Marie Todd

32. The Global Turn in the Alternative Media Movement
Carlos Fontes

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[creative-radio] MENA Soul Beat Extra: Community Radio For people using community radio for social change...

Soul Beat Extra: Community Radio
September 2 2009

For people using community radio for social change...

For further information on Community Radio in Africa visit Soul Beat
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1. iLife Radio Drama Series - South Africa
Launched in August 2009, iLife is a radio drama series, produced by ABC
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AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), that seeks to promote HIV and AIDS prevention in
South Africa. The edudrama focuses on a range of HIV prevention issues
such as multiple concurrent partnerships (MCP), transactional sex,
intergenerational partnerships, condom use, and HIV testing. The
14-episode drama series has been produced in four of South Africa's
official languages (English, isiZulu, seSotho, and Afrikaans) and is being
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2. Applied Research on the Use and Potential for Mobile-friendly Content
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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potential for mobile-friendly audio or visual content generated by
community media in developing country contexts. Launched in January 2009
primarily in the countries of the Commonwealth, the applied research study
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3. Manooré FM - Senegal
Manooré (meaning "know-how" in Wolof) FM is a community radio station that
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To demonstrate the importance of fostering independent media, this report
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economic, and social systems. The report was written for presentation to
the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) at the National
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5. Radio, Convergence, and Development in Africa Research Programme - Africa
This programme, initiated by the Centre for Media and Transitional
Societies (CMTS) at Carleton University and supported by the International
Development Research Centre, seeks to explore traditional radio in Africa
in order to understand how it can be enhanced by information and
communication technologies (ICTs). The overall objective of the project is
to identify and support research to better understand the current impact
and potential of radio as a development tool in Africa...
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6. Documents on Evaluating the Social Impact of Community Radio
Every four years the Association Mondiale des Radiodiffuseurs
Communautaires (AMARC or World Community Radio Association) Africa
organises a Pan-African conference for its members and community radio
(CR) stakeholders to discuss the challenges of community radio in Africa.
As part of the conference, some members participated in a workshop called
"Training for trainers on evaluating the social impact of community
radio". A number of members prepared papers ahead of the conference to
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7. Radio and Development in Africa: A Concept Paper
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This paper was prepared for the International Development Research Centre
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impact and potential of radio as a development tool in Africa. According
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widest geographical reach and the highest audiences compared with
television, newspapers, and other ICTs...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/299201/376

8. Coñal Keele (Harvesting the Seeds of Life) - Senegal
Launched in November 2008, Coñal Keele is a serial radio drama produced by
Population Media Center (PMC) designed to address adolescent reproductive
health and early marriage in Senegal. Working in coordination with Réseau
Africain de l'Education pour la Santé (RAES) based in Dakar, Senegal and
the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, the
58-episode radio drama is part of a three-year project by PMC with funding
from United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/298361/376

9. Radio for Peacebuilding Africa Awards 2009
Deadline: September 30, 2009
The Radio for Peacebuilding Africa Awards 2009 seek to recognise what the
organisers consider to be the best radio programmes contributing to peace
in Africa. The awards celebrate radio programmes which reduce tensions in
groups and communities, which enhance and give value to shared interests,
which break down listener stereotypes, and/or which provide positive role
models...
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PLEASE VOTE IN OUR POLL ON COMMUNITY RADIO AND ICTs

How are new ICTs (such as the internet and mobile phones) being used most
effectively to support community radio in Africa? (you may choose more
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Options:
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* to download radio content from other sources
* to improve local programme production and reporting, eg. through mobile
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* to increase broadcast reach, making the voice of the community heard
beyond the immediate community
* to increase audience participation in programming
* other

To vote and send comments go to
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and see the Top Right side of the page.

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10. Ngelawu Nawet (Winds of Hope) - Senegal
Launched in October 2008, Ngelawu Nawet (Winds of Hope) is a serial radio
drama, produced by Population Media Centre (PMC), which is designed to
address family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, child survival,
and malaria prevention in Senegal...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/301109/376

11. Training Programme on Media and Peace-building 2009 (Oct 8-Dec 16
2009) Bujumbura, Burundi
According to the organisers of this training, Radio La Benevolencija HTF
("la Benevolencija"), this training programme draws on their work in the
Great Lakes Region (Rwanda, Burundi, and Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC)) which applies psychological research to support violence
prevention, peace-building, and trauma healing through the targeted use of
communication outlets. The training programme for 2009 focuses on
mid-career media professionals of the Great Lakes region and is designed
to encourage exchanges between international and regional experts on core
issues relating to the media, and peace building and consolidation
initiatives in the region...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/298943/376

12. Media Development Indicators: A Framework for Assessing Media Development
This paper has been prepared in order to define indicators of media
development in line with the priority areas of the International Programme
for the Development of Communication (IPDC): promotion of freedom of
expression and media pluralism; development of community media; and human
resource development (capacity building of media professionals and
institutional capacity building)...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/283850/376

13. Engaging Development: Environment and Content of Radio Broadcasting in
Nigeria
By Dr. Ayobami Ojebode, Dr. Tunde Adegbola
According to this publication, Nigeria has developed a relatively large
radio broadcasting sector. However, critical observers claim that radio
broadcasting has performed below expectations in engaging issues of
development. This paper was commissioned to provide scientific data which
would inform the development of future activities and provide a picture of
the crucial challenges confronting radio broadcasting, as well as provide
recommendations and impetus for further work to advance the cause of
development-oriented radio broadcasting in Nigeria...
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Africa, but we also like to keep the existing project information on our
website up to date. If your project is featured on the Soul Beat Africa
website, and if you think it requires an update, please send information
to soulbeat@comminit.com We will then feature it in the next Soul Beat
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See also:

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Monday, 31 August 2009

[creative-radio] MENA Indigenizing Communication Knowledge: Engaging National Policies and Academic Pursuits.

An upcoming international conference in Malaysia focusing on indigenous
media will discuss the relevance of "indigenizing" media knowledge in an
era in which Western curricula has influenced media studies worldwide.

In an increasingly globalized world, maintaining an indigenous identity in
the media -- and contextualizing knowledge and information to suit local
discourse, policies and realities -- is a challenge.

What do you think: How best can communities promote indigenous voices and
forms of knowledge? What do you think a functioning indigenous media
should look like, and how best can this be achieved?

https://www.ijnet.org/ijnet/discussions/what_does_indigenous_media_look_like_in_a_globalized_world

See also
http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/~mtn2009/introduction.html

Conference Theme

The theme of MENTION2009 is Indigenizing Communication Knowledge: Engaging
National Policies and Academic Pursuits.

Communication knowledge is deeply rooted in Western thoughts and
philosophy. These thoughts and philosophies have spread across the globe
when institutions of higher learning offering courses in communication and
media studies modeled their curriculum according to Western, notably
American universities curriculum. While adoption of the Western curriculum
has contributed to the development of communication and media studies
curriculum in the East, scholars in Asian universities have been actively
engaging in research that inadvertently promote indigenous forms of
knowledge. These new knowledge are sometimes at odds with Western forms of
knowledge because it is contextualized to suit local prevailing needs and
national policies. It has been more than two decades since the last
discussion in Singapore on the Asian perspective of communication
knowledge. Where do we stand now in terms of indigenizing communication
knowledge to suit local environment? What have we learned thus far? Where
are we heading in the future? MENTION2009 will allow us to take stock of
the field – its contribution, its core knowledge, its relevancy, its
growth and its future – in the context of indigenizing communication
knowledge. The aim/purpose of this conference is for academicians, media
practitioners, students of media and communication studies, media and
communication experts from government, NGOs, universities and private
sectors to convene, discuss, contest and qualify the conference theme.

Objectives

The conference seeks to achieve the following objectives:

* To debate issues relating to indigenizing of communication knowledge
* To examine the various research activities that have promoted
indigenous forms of knowledge
* To explicate the challenges of realizing indigenous knowledge while
engaging in national policies and academic pursuits

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