Our Media 2007
OURMedia International Conference
Sydney, Australia – April 9-13 2007
Sustainble Futures:
Roles & Challenges for Community, Alternative and Citizens’ Media in the 21st Century
OurMedia is set to be an exciting international conference on the future of community, alternative and citizen’s media.
Bringing together international and national experts, researchers, practitioners, activists, policy makers and communities, the conference will explore the future of participatory and alternative media.
The program will comprise an exciting and diverse array of workshops, roundtable debates, new media labs, research-led forums and engagements by local media producers.
SPEAKERS AND INTERNATIONAL GUESTS
The event will feature an amazing array of highly respected practitioners, researchers and artists – including:
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)
and Hi8us – innovative UK digital media organisation.
ABOUT OUR MEDIA
Driven by an expanding network of scholars and media practitioners all around the world, OURMedia 2007 is an exciting opportunity to share, network, develop and workshop ideas, and get a picture of what’s happening locally, nationally and internationally in the field of community, alternative and citizen’s media.
OURMedia 2007 is hosted by the School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney in association with the Centre for Cultural Research, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney.
ICE will be participating activelly in OURMedia 2007 conference as the conference community partner.
For more information visit the OURMedia Conference Website
Background to OURMedia
OURMedia is an international network and forum founded in 2001 by a group of engaged academics interested in advancing the democratic potential of community, alternative and ‘citizens’ media. The network recognised that the intellectual and policy frameworks for citizens’ media are often out of touch with grassroots reality. OURMedia sought to connect scholars, practitioners, activists and policy-makers towards defined outcomes. OURMedia is now a network of over 500 people from 50 countries and has generated an extensive body of practical and theoretical knowledge primarily in English and Spanish.
Past OURMedia conferences have been organized in the United States (2001), Spain (2002), Colombia (2003), Brazil (2004) and India (2005). These conferences have consisted of scholarly and academic presentations, media activism initiatives, policy workshops, community cultural development roundtable debates, new media labs, research-led forums and engagements by local media producers.
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