PhD-students and early career researchers are invited to submit an abstract for the NDiMS 2017, taking place at the University of Leicester on July 3, 2017. This conference is a follow-up to the very successful New Direction in Media Research (NDiMR) that has been held annually since 2011.
A new book by Thomas Tufte, co-director of Ørecomm, is finally out with a series of book launches taking place on three continents in the upcoming months. Communication and Social Change provides essential insights to students and scholars of media and communications, as well as anyone concerned with the practices and processes that lead to citizenship, democracy and social justice. The book will be launched in Portugal (Coimbra) on 16th of May, in Ghana in June, in Colombia in July and finally in the UK (London) in September 2017. On details please follow news on our Facebook page.
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These are reflections on a lecture given by Thomas Tufte, Ørecomm’s Co-director and Professor of Media and Communication Studies at The University of Leicester. Post is prepared by Ørecomm’s member Anders Hög Hansen.
Which theoretical and methodological approaches coexist within the C4D field? To what extent does the C4D field respond to challenges and needs raised by the financial crisis and to the alternative proposals in both the Nord and the Global South? These and other questions will be discussed at the Evaluation of Communication for Development and Social Change conference in Spain (9-11 May 2017).
Do development conferences give attention to media and communication? In this post, Flor Enghel, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stockholm University’s Department of Media, addresses this question through a recap of the 2016 Devres conference.
Cannot attend Ørecomm Symposium 2016 yet willing to follow? Don’t miss your most awaited presentations and discussions – follow livestream of the programme.
It is a final countdown before the most awaited conference on communication for development, Transit Europe: Mobility, Communication and Governance, starts in a week. Ørecomm is pleased to introduce the final programme.
The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) has finished its international conference taking place at the University of Leicester during this week. The theme of IAMCR’s 2016 conference has been “Memory, Commemoration and Communication: Looking Back, Looking Forward”.
Jonas Agerbæk Jeppesen is back from Australia, where he was a visiting scholar in the Centre for Communication and Social Change. In an interview given at the Centre he talks about his PhD project and perspectives of collaboration between Ørecomm and other partners.
New PhD opportunities at the University of Leicester
Call for Abstracts: New Directions in Media, Communication and Sociology (NDiMS) Conference
Ørecomm Team to Gather at the University of Coimbra
“Communication and Social Change – A Citizen Perspective” Published
C4D Network to Sum Up Global Communication for Development Practice
Entering Media and Communication into Development Conferences?
IAMCR Conference 2016: Communication for Development Highlights
Glocal Classroom Revisited – Storytelling & Social Change Leicester-Malmö
I EvalComDev International Conference: Call for Papers
Looking for Media and Communication in Development Conferences: Devres 2016