CfP: Dealing with Crisis: Community, Alternative, Media in Times of Change

The OURMedia network invites to a pre-conference event 24-25 June 2013, before the IAMCR conference in Dublin. From the call:

“The dominant media and news services are facing their own crises, and especially their failure to change the corporate commercial model and adapt to technological change. Non-profit media provide useful alternative models; citizens’ media have long demonstrated inclusive forms of user participation; and online activist projects have offered crucial solutions for crisis communication. But crises are also affecting grassroots media and communications organizations as their already precarious resource bases shrink further. And with social justice movements and citizens increasingly moving to commercial social networking platforms for their communication needs, the classic collective forms and relevance of alternative and community media are themselves challenged.”

Deadline for proposals is 28 February 2013. Submissions may take a variety of forms: academic papers, workshops, theatrical performances, technical showcases, etc. Download full CfP here.