PUMEDIACONF2019: International Seminar on Media Technologies and Accessibility: Politics, Representations and Paradigms Pondicherry University Pondicherry, India, January 21-22, 2020 |
Conference website | https://www.emmcconference2019.com |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pumediaconf2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | December 17, 2019 |
Abstract Notification | December 25, 2019 |
Deadline to pay registration fees | December 31, 2019 |
Full Paper Submission | January 11, 2020 |
Submission deadline | January 11, 2020 |
PUMEDIACONF2019: Pondicherry University Media/ Communication Conference 2019 organised jointly by the Department of Electronic Media and Mass Communication, Pondicherry University, and the Dept of IngeMedia, University of Toulon, France, and the Association for Communicaiton Teachers - Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
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The abstract must not exceed a word limit of 300 words.
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The abstracts submitted must be original and not yet published.
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The abstracts must be submitted via Easychair. (Please create an account before you access the link. HELP)
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Please ensure the delivery of abstracts before the deadlines mentioned.
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Include the author's and co authors' details along with institutional affiliations in the abstracts.
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Use the APA 6th Edition format for the abstracts.
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Abstracts must be submitted in English language either in a PDF or MS word files only.
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Full paper submission: Dec 10th 2019 (Between 5000-6000 words).
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The organising committee is pleased to inform that selected papers will be considered for publication in an edited book volume with ISBN immediately after the conference.
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The following paper categories are welcome:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- LGBTQ / Queer visibilities in and through social media
- Body positivity in media / social media
- Access, Poverty and Media
- Political economy of start-up digital firms: Have they refashioned the discourse of media access?
- Access Denied or Enabled: Injustice to women and media reportage
- Media, inclusivism and differently abled
- (de)legitimising media: how is access configured?
- Connected Activism or Fragmented connectivism: Social media offerings for citizens
- Political participation and local people: speaking loudly about social issues
- Documentaries and representations of media access
- Films as access points for literacy
- Droning and Surveillance: Access society or control society?
- Invasive data gathering and Privacy rights
- Access to information: Symmetry or Asymmetry
- Understanding media access from feminist perspectives
- Media literacy on what to access than access per se
- Gendered labour and women’s political participation
- Free Software and Open Access
- Platform Politics
- Internet: A site for potential discrimination or equality
- Privacy and Data Protection Policy
- Media, disability and the politics of participation
- Access to excess content: Spectacles of screened reality and imageries
- Reality and truth in access-driven mediatised society
- Digital media accessibility and identities
- Histories of images in/through archives (photographs, films, engravings, paintings, videos, games etc.)
- Politics of images in contemporary cultures
- Accessibility in E-content courseware
- Accessibility, conflicting forms of knowledge and social reality
- Accessing science through media
- Communicating environment through Media
- Accessibility, technologies and health
Committees
Program Committee
Chief Patrons
Prof. (Dr). Gurmeet Singh, Vice-Chancellor, Pondicherry University
Prof C. K. Ramaiah, Ph.D., Dean, School of Media and Communication, Pondicherry University, Puducherry
Organizing committee
Dr M Shuaib Mohamed Haneef, Head i/c, DEMMC, Pondicherry University
Dr S Arulselvan, Associate Professor, DEMMC, Pondicherry University
Dr D Nivedhitha, Associate Professor, DEMMC, Pondicherry University
Dr Anand Lenin Vethanayagam, Reader, DEMMC, Pondicherry University
Dr Radhika Khanna, Assistant Professor, DEMMC, Pondicherry University
Dr Samarjit Kachari, Assistant Professor, DEMMC, Pondicherry University
Mr A Muthamil, Assistant Professor, DEMMC, Pondicherry University
Dr V Santhi Siri, Assistant Professor, DEMMC, Pondicherry University
Dr T Balasaravanan, Assistant Professor, DEMMC, Pondicherry University
Invited Speakers
Dr. Monia Acciari
De Montfort University, Leicester Media School,UK.
Currently a guest faculty under Department of Film studies, EFLU, Hyderabad
(expected)
Dr. Biswajit Das
Professor and founding Director of Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia,
New Delhi. (expected)
Publication
PUMEDIACONF2019 proceedings will be published in an internationally reputed journal
Venue
The conference will be held in the Department of Electronic Media and Mass Communication, Silver Jubilee Campus, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry 14.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the conference email id: pumediaconf19@gmail.com