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From: barkerplum@stu.admin.usfca.edu (Bernadette Barker-Plummer)
Subject: CFP: Union for Democratic Communications Conference
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****************** Call for Participation -- Please Forward **************


Union for Democratic Communications Conference
June 11-14, 1998
University of San Francisco

Theme: Media, Democracy and the Public Sphere

Is it possible to seize a democratic public sphere from the jaws of
transnational media conglomerates? This is the key question for the Union
for Democratic Communications' conference to be held from June 11-14 in San
Francisco. The UDC calls for critical academics and media activists,
practitioners, and producers to address issues that may include: the notion
of the "public interest," the role of public media systems in the creation
of a democratic public sphere, the role of media policy in helping or
hindering democracy, the role of media in (trans)national democratization
processes, the dissemination of radical claims through alternative,
community and mainstream media, the ways in which the everyday media
practices of the public help or hinder the creation of a democratic public
sphere, the education of media workers in the interest of democracy, and
the utilization of information technologies for and against democracy.

Submissions Format:
UDC welcomes papers, audiovisual works, panels, workshops and especially
projects that break with the traditional monological approach and, instead,
promote dialogue and interaction around questions of critical
communications and media activism.

Submissions to:
Bernadette Barker-Plummer,
Department of Communication,
University of San Francisco,
2130 Fulton Street,
San Francisco, CA 94117
Tel: 415 422 6187
Fax: 415 422 2772
email: barkerplum@usfca.edu

Deadline: March 1, 1998





                Bernadette Barker-Plummer, Ph.D.,
                Assistant Professor,
                Department of Communication,
                University of San Francisco,
                2130 Fulton Street,
                San Francisco, CA 94117
                (415) 422 6187






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