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Program  of  the
PARTICIPATORY COMMUNICATION RESEARCH Section
IAMCR Conference in Sydney, Australia,
August 18-22, 1996.



Panel I: Participatory Communication

Chair: Jan Servaes (Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium)

Papers:

1. Brenda Dervin (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA) & Robert Huesca
(Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA):
The Participatory Communication for Development Narrative: An Examination
of Meta-Theoretic Assumptions and Their Impacts

2. Fred Jandt & Dolores Tanno (USA):
The 'other' in intercultural research. An Update and Expansion.

3. Anne Johnston (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA):
Public Resolution of Public Pollution: The role of participatory
communication in environmental conflict management

4. Ullamajia Kivikuru (University of Helsinki, Finland):
Citizen -- Alone in the Media Wilderness? Considerations on Options Left
for Alternative Communication in Finnish Mediascapes

5. Rico Lie (Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium):
Researching the Global in the Local in a Participatory Way: Towards a
Qualitative Multi-level Flow Analysis

6. Knut Lundby (University of Oslo, Norway):
Media, Religion and Democratic Participation: Cases of community
communication in Zimbabwe and Norway

7. Francisco Esteve Ramirez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Investigative Journalism as a Participatory Answer to the Sociopolitical
Needs of Citizens

Respondent: Joe Pilotta (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)


Panel II: The second Roundtable on Development Communication:
Communication for Development: What role for the next century?  (in
cooperation with UNESCO)

Chairs: Carlos Arnaldo (UNESCO, Paris), Anura Goonasekera (AMIC,
Singapore)
& Jan Servaes (CSC, Brussels)

A number of people have been invited to read the report of the first Seoul
Roundtable and comment upon it in view of the question: Communication for
Development: what role for the next century. The Seoul report is put as an
URL on the INTERNET. One could access it at the following address:
http://www.kubrussel.ac.be/psw/pcr.html

The tentative list of participants includes:

Naren Chitty (Macquaire University, Australia)
Shelton A. Gunaratne (Moorhead State University, USA)
Ullamajia Kivikuru (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Cees Hamelink (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Srinivas Melkote (Bowling Green State University, USA)
Hamid Mowlana (American University, Washington D.C., USA)
Kaarle Nordenstreng (University of Tampere, Finland)


Panel III:  Significance and Impact of Satellite Television Programming in
South Asia.

Chair:  Srinivas R. Melkote (Bowling Green State University, Bowling
Green,
OH, USA)

The papers in this panel will address the political, economic, cultural
and
developmental significance and impact of the emerging satellite networks
in
India and South Asia.  One of the papers will also present results of a
large survey of viewers of STAR-TV  and state-controlled Doordarshan
network done recently in south India.  The analyses of the papers will be
both quantitative and qualitative in nature.  Collectively, the authors
will present a historical, cultural, legal and political economy
perspective of important issues (which will include development
communication) such as communication policies, news,
development,propaganda, etc and also touch upon the regulatory and
institutional frameworks that obtain within India and other Third World
countries in the region.

Papers:

1.  Geetika Pathania  (University of Texas at Austin, USA):
Ambivalence in a STAR-ry Eyed Land: Doordarshan and the Satellite TV
Challenge.

2.  Peter Shields & Sundeep Muppidi (Bowling Green State University, USA):
Putting Media Policy in its Place: The exemple of STAR TV and the Indian
State.

3.  Arvind Singhal & Peer Svenkerud (Ohio University, Athens, USA):
Cultural Transcendance as an Alternative to Cultural Imperialism: Role of
Pro-Social Entertainment Television Programs in Asia.

4.  Srinivas Melkote (Bowling Green State University, USA):
A Comparative Analysis of STAR TV and Doordarshan Programs and their
impact
on viewers in South India.

5. Ewart Skinner (Bowling Green State University, USA):
Implications of the Asian Situation on Broadcast Propaganda, News, and
Entertainment in the Caribbean and Latin America.

Respondent:  John Lent (Temple University, Philadelphia, USA).


Panel IV: Asian Perspectives on Communication for Development (Joint
section with the Professional Education Section)

Chair: Anura Goonasekera (AMIC, Singapore)

1. Richard F. Boylan (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
As problems get worse, will solutions come easier?

2. Dipak De & A.P. Kanungo (Banares Hindu University, Varanasi, India):
Print Media and Agricultural Issues

3. Abul Kashem (Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh)
Problems Faced by the Resourceless Women in Participating in Group
Activities

4. Chie-Woon Kim (SungKyunKwan University, Seoul) & Jin-Hong Chung (Korean
National Institute of Arts, Seoul, Korea)
Redirecting the Focus of Communication Studies in the Age of Communication
as 'key agenda'

5. Pradeep Krishnatray & Srinivas Melkote (Bowling Green State University,
USA)
Destigmatization of Leprosy in Indian Villages: An experimental design to
evaluate the relative effectiveness of diffusion and participation
communication strategies.


Panel V: Human Rights, Culture and Participatory Communication: literacy,
language and semantics (Joint section with the Human Rights Committee)

Chair: Shalini Venturelli (American University, Washington, USA)

1. Heleusa Figueira Camara (Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia,
Brazil)
Retelling tale and daydreaming: Reading in Prison

2. Rajib Ab. Ghani (Mara Institute of Technology) & Faridah Ibrahim
(Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia)
The Use and Misuse of Language in the Media: Semantic analysis of human
rights coverage

3. Yvonne Mignot-Lefebvre (CNRS, University of Paris, France)
Right of Information: African Television and the  Destruction of
Organizational Heritages

4. Dipak De &  V.K. Dubey (Institute of Agricultural Sciences, B.H.U.,
Varanasi , India)
Communication Strategy for Human Rights Literacy


Panel VI: Human Rights, Culture and Participatory Communication: political
and policy problems (Joint section with the Human Rights Committee)

Chair: Jan Servaes (Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium)

1. Emperatriz Arreaza Camero (Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela)
Human Rights, Communication, and Democracy in El Salvador

2. Nevenka Jeftic (Institute of Political Studies, Beograd, Yugoslavia)
 Newly Acquired Human Right to Communicate

3. Ank Linden (Netherlands)
Communication and Human Rights: A Challenge you cannot refuse. Towards a
human rights based framework for information and communication policies in
Third World Countries.

4. Ali Mohammadi (The Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom)
The Politics of Human Rights in the Context of Islam: The Case of the
Islamic Republic

Respondent: Cees Hamelink (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)


Panel VII: Participatory Communication and Cultural Identity in the 21st
Century: International Agency Perspectives (Joint section with the
International Communication Section)

Chair: Jan Servaes (Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium)

1. Shelton Gunaratne (Moorhead State University, USA)
Old Wine in New Bottle: Civic Journalism Movement in the U.S. and the
Erstwhile UNESCO Debate

2. Anadam Kavoorie (USA)
Diasporic Connections: The relevance of post-colonial theory for the study
of international communication

3. Rico Lie (Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium) & Liesbeth Rijsdijk
(UNESCO, Apia, Western Samoa)
UNESCO's Concern with Localization in the Global-Local Debate. An attempt
to integrate theory and practice in the Pacific Islands

4. Hanne Longreen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
The uses of Development Communication in Danish supported Development
Projects in the Third World

5. Jan Servaes (Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium)
Communication for Development in a Global Perspective. The Role of
Governmental and Non-Governmental Agencies

6. Karin G. Wilkins (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Gender, Development and Communication: Manifestations of Marginalization
in
US Foreign Aid

Respondent: Ullamajia Kivikuru (University of Helsink, Finland)


Panel VIII: Participatory Communication and Cultural Identity in the 21st
Century (Joint section with the International Communication Section)

Chair: Abbas Malek (Howard University, Washington D.C., USA)

1. Marisol Alvarez (Uruguay)
Mediation and Selfs: Net Relations and Definitions

2. Lucilene Cury (Instituto Superior de Comunicacao Publicitaria, Sao
Paulo, Brasil):
Analysis of the Brazilian Social Communication Courses: A search on the
Curriculum Identity

3. Gladys Daza Hernandez (Colombia)
Participacion Ciudadana en la Informacion Televisiva

4. Iben Jensen (University of Roskilde, Denmark):
Intercultural Dialogue and Cultural Identity. An empirical study of
intercultural communication between young people living in a multicultural
community.


IX- Business Meeting of the Participatory Communication Research (PCR)
Section




CONTACT: Jan Servaes, Section President, Catholic University of Brussels,
Department of  Communication, Vrijheidslaan 17, B-1080 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32 (2) 412 42 78  or +32 (2) 412 42 47
Fax: +32 (2) 412 42 00
E-mail: "Jan=Servaes@ufsal3.KUBrussel.ac.be" or "Ping1513@ping.be"

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