3rd ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUMON ARAB & MUSLIM MEDIA RESEARCH 

Date:    25th April 2009

Venue: 2C Lecture Theatre, King’s College, University of London

The Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS

CALL FOR PAPERS

CAMMRO has been a pioneer in organising the first gathering of its kind for researchers in Arab and Muslim media and their audiences. The first and second symposia organised in King’s College, and Goldsmiths (University of London in 2007 and 2008) made great success and attracted a large number of researchers.

The scope of the third annual symposium addresses media, communication and culture in not only the Arab World but in various other Muslim countries from Africa and Asia. The event also covers research on diasporic and minority media such as satellite TV, radio and the internet especially in Europe and the USA.

Because of the thriving ongoing research on these areas of enquiry, CAMMRO’s research team have established this symposium as annual event that brings together research students working on Arab or Muslim media of all types.

Symposium organization:

Research Students, who will be expected to present papers based on or part of their Ph.D./M.A. dissertations, will have the opportunity to relate their important and relevant research to other colleagues and academics, enabling them to form networks for future collaboration or material resources. Panel presentations will be organized according to topics. Established academics will be in attendance, to offer further feedback on students’ research. Selected number of Papers are welcome for submission in the Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research.

Contributions are welcome regarding the following themes:
- Communication and development in the Arab region
- Media and the Construction of public opinion
- The impact of satellite TV on the perception of democracy
- Media and social change in the Arab and Muslim world
- Media coverage of the Arab/Israeli conflict
- Use of satellite TV and the internet by the Jihadi groups
- Media and women empowerment
- Diasporic media and diasporic audiences

- Youth and new media

- Media and minorities
- Global media and its impact on local cultures
- Arab media and the challenge to global news networks
- Blogging and the changing face of journalism practice
- Reality TV and the tabloidisation of Arab media
- Pan-Arab Satellite TV and the transnational public Sphere
- Media and subcultures in the Arab world

Submissions:
We welcome contributions from around the world about the above mentioned areas of enquiry. Abstracts to be considered for symposium panel presentations should be submitted electronically by 25th March 2009. Each abstract should be no more than 500 words, and each presentation should be no more than 15 minutes. Draft papers should be submitted by 15th April 2009

Contact us:

Please send your abstracts and all enquiries to:

Bader Al-Saud (Symposium Co-ordinator).

E-mail: forum@cammro.com

Tel: 00 44 (0) 777 6016520