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9th MacBRIDE ROUND TABLE,  OCTOBER 1st  TO 2nd, 1997; BOULDER, COLORADO, USA.

The following is a provisional list of papers accepted for the Round Table.
Our Website is at:

http://tdg.uoguelph.ca/~drichard/macbride/index.html  (courtesy of Don
Richardson and Andrew Isaak)

Please contact me (sean@nexus.ie) , or Rick Vinvent
(rvincent@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu)  if you would like to attend.

1: Author: Ritsu Saito; Sophia University Japan. (confirmed)
Title: Media Strategy of Japanese NGOs.

2: Author: Beata Klimkiewicz; Wadham College, Oxford, UK. (Unconfirmed)
Title: Ethnic Minorities, Media and Public Sphere in Poland: Democracy
without Advocacy?

3: Author: Hemant Shah; School of Journalism & Mass Comms., U. of Wisconsin,
USA. (confirmed)
Title: Journalism in an Age of Mass Media Globalization

4: Author: Deng Tong-Tong; Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands.
Title: Decentralizing the Media in China

5: Author: Tony Wilhelm; The Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, California USA.
Title: Information and Communication Technologies - Red Queen Effects among
Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the US.

6: Author: Zilla Eisenstein; Dept of Politics, Ithica College, USA.
Title:  from her book: Cyberfantasies, Virtual Sisterhoods and Deliberative
Publics.

7: Author: Douglas Kellner; Dept. of Philosophy, Austin, Texas. (Confirmed)
Title: Intellectuals, New Technologies, and the Public Sphere

8: Author: Stanford Mukasa; Department of Journalism, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, USA.
Title: Human resource  and content issues in regional information
infrastructures for Africa.

9: Author: Inhee Lee, Taewan Kang; Kyung Hee University, Korea. (Confirmed)
Title: Toward the Protection of  Information Privacy in the Commoditized
Cyberspace

10: Author: Ilana Snyder, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia
(Confirmed)
Title: If That's the Road Ahead let's Take a Detour.

11:  Author: Hans K. Klein, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, USA.
Title: Alternative Media: The Role of the Grassroots Media Entrepreneur
(Confirmed)

12:  Author: Sakae Ishikawa; Sophia University, Japan. (Confirmed)
Title: A Step Beyond Media Literacy: Audience interpretation of
media-supplied Information

13:  Author:  Jesse Hirsh; Media Collective, Toronto, Canada. (Confirmed)
Title: Oppositional Elements of Corporate Concentration, and Public
Participation in the New Media.

14. Author:  Robert B. Scott; Dept of Film and Photography, Ryerson
Politech, Canada. (Confirmed)
Title: The Saint John Project: National Film Board of Canada's <Challenge
for Change> Revisited.

15a. Authors: Chung-Chung Yang; National Institute of Marketing and
Distribution Management; and Chung-Yi Cheng, Institute of Urban Planning,
National Chung-Hsing University, Taipei, Taiwan;
Title: Censorship on the Internet: A Cross-national Comparisons of
Discourses over Free Flow of Information on a Global Communication Network
in East and Southeast Asia;
AND/OR
15b. Author: Chung-Chung Yang; National Institute of Marketing and
Distribution Management, Taiwan
Title: The Internet as a Liberating Technology: The Use of the Internet
among Homosexual Communities in Taiwan.

16. Author: Laura Stein, Daniel Marcus; University of Texas, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Title:  Public Access Television and Radical Media

17. Author:  Williams Rossa Cole; Fullbright Scholar, London School of
Economic, UK.
Title: The Decline of Dissent

18: Michael D. Basil; Department of Mass Communications, University of
Denver, USA
Title: Alternative Visions for NWICO: An Historical Evaluation.

19. Dorothy Kidd; Simon Fraser University, USA
Title: Pirates, Amateurs and Community Broadcasters: The Radio Enclosures

20. Majid Tehranian; University of Hawaii, USA
Title: Informatic Imperialism and the Global Apartheid

21.  Sergio Euclides de Souza;  University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
(Confirmed)
Title: NWICO: The Debate that did not Happen

22.  Zala Volcic;  University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. (Confirmed)
Title: Slovene Media in the 90's

23.  Joe Mehan, Columbia, School of International and Public Affairs, USA
(confirmed)
Title: Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about NWICO But were too Bored to Ask.


OTHER PROPOSED ACTIVITIES:

In addition, a number of other activities may be held.

- Debra Guzman of the Human Rights Information Network in Calimesa,
California, USA may organise a Workshop/Round Table discussion on projects
in the area of Internet communications and NGOs.

- Dee Dee Halleck, Michael Eisenmenger and/or Linda Lanconne from, Paper
Tiger TV, New York, USA may present a video-based session on Alternative
Video Strategies and Initiatives

- Ron Burnett, President, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (former
Director, Graduate Programme in Communication, McGill), Canada, may organise
a Panel discussion on: From Communication to a Life of Learning


HOTELS:

Please book your hotel yourself, if possible.  If you cannot, please contact
Andrew Calabrese at E-mail: andrew.calabrese@colorado.edu, mentioning that
it is for the Round Table.

The following hotels have had block bookings made for the Round Table.
Other details will be posted on the MacBride Website soon.

University Inn
1632 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80302
Tel: +1 303 442 3830
Fax: +1 303 442 1205
Contact: Nicole Yardley
Single: $54
Double: $60

Lazy L Motel
1000 28th Street
Boulder, CO 80303
Tel: +1 303 442 7525
Contact: Kitong Allison
Single: $61
Double: $76

Holiday Inn
800 28th Street
Boulder, CO 80303
Tel: +1 303 443 3322
Contact: Debbie
Single: $99
Double: $109

Sean O Siochru          tel:  +353 1 4730599 office
NEXUS Research          tel: +353 1 2821003 home office
14 Eaton Brae           fax:  +353 1 4730597 office
Shankill                        fax: +353 1 2720034 home office
Co. Dublin              e-mail: sean@nexus.ie
Ireland                 Web site: http://www.iol.ie/nexus