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From: Dorsten, Aimee-Marie <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Date: Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:37 PM
Subject: I'd like to post to CFP extension to listserv
To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>


Hi,
I'm the secretary for the Union for Democratic Communication. I'd like to post a message about our conference deadline extension. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

Please see below:


Union for Democratic Communication, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

The Union for Democratic Communication (in conjunction with Project Censored) is extending the submission deadline to July 1, 2013* for its upcoming November conference.

(*Please note that this is the last year the UDC will continue the tradition of deadline extension.)

We look forward to hearing from those of who've been busy, but hope to contribute to the conference!

CFP: The Point is to Change it: Media Democracy and Democratic Media in Action

http://www.democraticcommunications.net/conference/udc-2013/CFP
Union for Democratic Communications and Project Censored Conference 2013

We invite submissions for the Union for Democratic Communication and Project Censored conference November 1-3, 2013 at the University of San Francisco.  Submission deadline is July 1, 2013.

With increasingly precarious employment, accelerating ecological degradation, gulfs between the 1% and the 99%, as well as dramatic booms and busts, we need a global media responsive to the 99%.  We need rigorous critique of corporate media’s commodification of social life. We need critique of all forms of censorship, systematic information exclusion, and propaganda.  We need grounded ideas for democratizing media in all formats and genres.  We need media justice.

To revitalize and retool media democracy in today’s media landscape, the Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) and Project Censored are teaming up for our 2013 conference.  UDC, which held its first conference in 1981, has worked to overcome concentrated political-economic power in order to contribute to a world based on economic justice, equality, and peace.  Project Censored, founded in 1976, has made its mission to expose and counteract modern-day censorship.  Together, UDC and Project Censored hope to contribute to a more democratic society and world by sharing our scholarly and activist projects.

We invite research, activist & artistic proposals from critical perspectives interrogating media institutions and technologies, political/economic structures, media practices, cultural practices & audiences; we invite studies in critical pedagogy and research on media activism.  Proposals that address pro-democratic media reform or outline efforts to expand citizen access to media are particularly welcome.

We welcome the following proposals emailed to  [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by June 1, 2013:

1. 500-word abstracts that describe the purpose and significance of your research and/or activist projects, especially those that address the issues outlined in the call.

2. Full papers (up to 25 pages including references) from graduate and undergraduate students.  The top student paper will be considered for the Top Student Paper Award. Student papers should be indicated as such and also contain a 500-word abstract. Students may apply for funding to cover some of their travel expenses through the Jeanne Hall Memorial Fund. To be considered for such funding, please include a one-line request for consideration of such funding on the top of your proposal.

3. Presentations of Media Literacy projects, including films and multimedia related to the call.

4. Finally, we welcome proposals for pre-constituted panels.  Please include 500-word abstracts for each participant (4-5 participants) and one panel rationale of 200-350 words that articulates the connections between the projects and the overall significance of the panel.


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The Union for Democratic Communications is a group of communications researchers, theorists, educators, journalists, media producers, policy analysts, and activists. The UDC is dedicated to the critical study of communications establishments and its policies; the production and distribution of democratically controlled media; the fostering of alternative, oppositional, independent, and experimental production; and the development of democratic communications systems at local, regional, national and international levels.



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Aimee-Marie Dorsten, PhD
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and
Adviser to The Globe
School of Communication
Point Park University
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201 Wood Street
Pittsburgh PA 15222
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