Please note the following:
1. Scope Of Participation:
(a) The Conference will discuss Community Media within a wide scope which incorporates a variety of media platforms- radio, television, theatre, print media, new communication technology applications, etc .
(b) There will also be an unrestricted spectrum of presentation formats and materials to cover: presentation of papers (academic/research materials or project reports); project demonstrations, documentaries on field work and so on.
(c) Participation is open to all community media stakeholders: academia, civil society, students, community media owners and workers, development agencies, regulatory bodies, executive and legislative organs of government, professionals and so on.
(d) There is ample room for participants who do not wish to make presentations but want to be in the conference to learn, take part in discussions/activities and join in celebrating the ALFRED OPUBOR BRAND.
(e) Mode of presentation could be dramatization, straight academic presentation or community demonstration and presentation.
2. Hotel Accommodation: The LOC has liaised with and compiled the contact details and tariffs of a number of hotels which are located within a radius of six (6) kilometres from the University of Ibadan, the conference location. Prospective participants are encouraged to contact the hotels of their choice and make their bookings very early. International participants and others who are not very familiar with the city of Ibadan are advised to book into U.I Hotels which houses the conference venue, within the University Of Ibadan. The details on the hotels can be accessed at www.alfredopubor.org/......
3. Registration: is essential for all participants in the conference.
DIRECT INQUIRIES TO: opuborconference@yahoo.com; comlangarts@gmail.com. And we will reach you within a short time.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Call for Abstracts & Participation!
The Department of Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; the Institute for Media and Society (IMS), Lagos, Nigeria; the African Languages Technology Initiative (ALT-I), Ibadan, Nigeria; and the Nigerian Community Radio Coalition jointly invite you to an international conference to commemorate the 75th Birthday Anniversary of Prof Alfred Opubor, first Nigerian professor of Mass Communication.
THEME: “IF COMMUNITY MEDIA IS THE ANSWER, WHAT IS THE QUESTION?”
Those were the words of the first Nigerian Professor of Mass Communication, Professor Alfred Opubor, and the title of one of his most discussed articles. Though that question was raised in 2000 in a book published by UNESCO, the issues that gave rise to it are still as urgent and improperly understood as they were then. The recent political events in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, the recent historic civilian-to-civilian transition in Zambia, the seemingly unending failure of the big media to significantly bring about participation and access; the recourse to neoliberal policies by African ‘democracies’ and the impact of that on the big media; are some of the issues that necessitate a thorough re-examination of that decade-old witticism. If community media is the answer, what indeed is the question? And how is it being answered? Are there more questions than there were? What are they?
SUB-THEMES: Paper abstracts and proposals for project demonstrations are welcome on the following subthemes:
· Community Media and new media technologies
· Community media, policy and regulation
· Community media, social media and social protest
· Community media and empowerment/development: actual stories and potentials
· Community media and the management of conflict
· Community media, community/civic engagement and democracy
· Research approaches in (and to) community media
· Community media and gender
· Community media and popular culture
· Community media and diasporas
DATE: 27-29 March, 2012
VENUE: Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
TIMELINES:
Deadline for submission of abstracts = Nov 30, 2011
Notification of writers of successful abstracts = Dec 20, 2011
Deadline for submission of full paper = Feb 20, 2012
FEES: heavily subsidised to cover conference materials, lunches and teas.
Academics: N5,000
International participants: $50
Graduate Students: N1,500
Undergraduate Students: Free
Abstracts or proposals for project demonstration should not exceed 300 words. Abstracts should be sent to both:opuborconference@yahoo.com and comlangarts@gmail.com
For more information on venues, hotel accommodation, presenters and lead speakers, timetables etc, visit: http://alfredopubor.org
You can access the book in which Prof Opubor’s Chapter (If community media is the answer...) was published here: http://www.unesco.org/
Ayobami Ojebode, Ph.D
Chairman, Local Organising Committee.
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