MacBride Round Table Call for Papers
10th MacBride Round Table Amman, Jordan; 24-26 November 1998 Call for Papers (for 26 November) and Participation CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION: A GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY The Tenth MacBride Roundtable on Communication will hold its annual meeting in Amman, Jordan from November 24th to 26th, 1998, in conjunction with the Jordanian Institute of Diplomacy and Jemstone, a network of journalists. We are inviting papers for pre sentation on the final day, November 26th. The theme of this Round Table is "Culture and Communication: A Global Information Society," and the emphasis of the Round Table portion of the program will be on building global governance structures for media a nd communication that includes civil society. Potential conference sessions may involve the exploration of international institutions, laws and ethics and their interface with communication. This marks the 10th year of the MacBride Round Table. The Round Table is an international communication rights advocate with an agenda to accommodate scholars, activists, journalists and other communication experts devoted to the monitoring of world commu nication, legal ramifications, and information imbalances; and then disseminating its findings to community groups, UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and the news media. The MacBride Round Table was created in 1989 to stimulate discussion of is sues embodied in the 1980 UNESCO MacBride Report. This report was critical of imbalances in world information flows. Nine Round Tables have been held to date: Harare (1989), Prague (1990), Istanbul (1991), São Paulo (1992), Dublin (1993), Honolulu (1994) , Tunis (1995) Seoul (1996), and Boulder (1997). For the upcoming Round Table we are calling for papers that offer insight into the dynamics of world communication. Of particular interest at this meting will be the discussion of the institutions, laws and ethics and interfaces with communication. Rela ted to this would be the role that civil society might play in governance structures for media and communication globally. Past Round Tables have focused on information flow and equity, the new communication technologies, the information super highway, t he role of women, indigenous people and other marginalized groups in society, and grassroots communication activities. The Round Table is also a sponsor for the World Congress on Media and Communication, currently in its planning stages. The Amman Round Table will run alongside the Jordanian Institute of Diplomacy and Jemstone meeting. VENUE: Amra Forum Hotel (tentative), Amman, Jordan ABSTRACTS BY: Monday, October 5th; ACCEPTANCE NOTICES: by October 10th For MORE INFORMATION on the MacBride Round Table and the Conference, see: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rvincent/macbride.htm or contact: Dr. Richard C. Vincent: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Past President/Vice Chair, MacBride Round Table 2560 Campus Road, Room 336, Department of Communication University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI 96822 USA telephone: +1 808.956.3352; fax +1 808.956.5589 or +1 808.956.5591 or Seán Ó Siochrú: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Secretary General, MacBride Round Table 14 Eaton Brae, Shankill Co. Dublin, IRELAND Tel: +353 1 282 1003 or 473 9599; fax +353 1 272 0034 or 4730597 1997-98 MacBride Round Table Steering Committee: President/Chairperson: Mustapha Masmoudi (Tunisia) Past President/Vice Chairperson: Kyung-Ja Lee (Korea) Past President/Vice Chairperson: Richard C. Vincent (USA) Secretary General and Treasurer: Seán Ó Siochrú (Ireland) Members: Andrew Calabrese (USA); Alternate: Hemant Shah (USA) Kaarle Nordenstreng (Finland); Alternate: Zala Volcic (Slovenia) HRH Princess Wijdan Ali (Jordan); Alternate: Marlene Francia (Philippines) Sakae Ishikawa (Japan); Alternate: Pradip Thomas (UK) Alain Ambrosi (Canada); Alternate: Wolfgang Kleinwaechter (Germany) Auditing Committee: Hans Klein, Marc Raboy, and Stanford Mukasa
MacBride Round Table Call for Papers
10th MacBride Round Table Amman, Jordan; 24-26 November 1998 Call for Papers (for 26 November) and Participation CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION: A GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY The Tenth MacBride Roundtable on Communication will hold its annual meeting in Amman, Jordan from November 24th to 26th, 1998, in conjunction with the Jordanian Institute of Diplomacy and Jemstone, a network of journalists. We are inviting papers for pre sentation on the final day, November 26th. The theme of this Round Table is "Culture and Communication: A Global Information Society," and the emphasis of the Round Table portion of the program will be on building global governance structures for media a nd communication that includes civil society. Potential conference sessions may involve the exploration of international institutions, laws and ethics and their interface with communication. This marks the 10th year of the MacBride Round Table. The Round Table is an international communication rights advocate with an agenda to accommodate scholars, activists, journalists and other communication experts devoted to the monitoring of world commu nication, legal ramifications, and information imbalances; and then disseminating its findings to community groups, UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and the news media. The MacBride Round Table was created in 1989 to stimulate discussion of is sues embodied in the 1980 UNESCO MacBride Report. This report was critical of imbalances in world information flows. Nine Round Tables have been held to date: Harare (1989), Prague (1990), Istanbul (1991), São Paulo (1992), Dublin (1993), Honolulu (1994) , Tunis (1995) Seoul (1996), and Boulder (1997). For the upcoming Round Table we are calling for papers that offer insight into the dynamics of world communication. Of particular interest at this meting will be the discussion of the institutions, laws and ethics and interfaces with communication. Rela ted to this would be the role that civil society might play in governance structures for media and communication globally. Past Round Tables have focused on information flow and equity, the new communication technologies, the information super highway, t he role of women, indigenous people and other marginalized groups in society, and grassroots communication activities. The Round Table is also a sponsor for the World Congress on Media and Communication, currently in its planning stages. The Amman Round Table will run alongside the Jordanian Institute of Diplomacy and Jemstone meeting. VENUE: Amra Forum Hotel (tentative), Amman, Jordan ABSTRACTS BY: Monday, October 5th; ACCEPTANCE NOTICES: by October 10th For MORE INFORMATION on the MacBride Round Table and the Conference, see: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rvincent/macbride.htm or contact: Dr. Richard C. Vincent: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Past President/Vice Chair, MacBride Round Table 2560 Campus Road, Room 336, Department of Communication University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI 96822 USA telephone: +1 808.956.3352; fax +1 808.956.5589 or +1 808.956.5591 or Seán Ó Siochrú: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Secretary General, MacBride Round Table 14 Eaton Brae, Shankill Co. Dublin, IRELAND Tel: +353 1 282 1003 or 473 9599; fax +353 1 272 0034 or 4730597 1997-98 MacBride Round Table Steering Committee: President/Chairperson: Mustapha Masmoudi (Tunisia) Past President/Vice Chairperson: Kyung-Ja Lee (Korea) Past President/Vice Chairperson: Richard C. Vincent (USA) Secretary General and Treasurer: Seán Ó Siochrú (Ireland) Members: Andrew Calabrese (USA); Alternate: Hemant Shah (USA) Kaarle Nordenstreng (Finland); Alternate: Zala Volcic (Slovenia) HRH Princess Wijdan Ali (Jordan); Alternate: Marlene Francia (Philippines) Sakae Ishikawa (Japan); Alternate: Pradip Thomas (UK) Alain Ambrosi (Canada); Alternate: Wolfgang Kleinwaechter (Germany) Auditing Committee: Hans Klein, Marc Raboy, and Stanford Mukasa