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CALL FOR PAPERS


Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Union for Democratic Communications is
renewing its unique founding commitment to the application of critical
paradigms at a convergence of scholarship, pedagogy, and media activism.

A renewed commitment to "the critical" as well as "the convergence" is all
the more appropriate at a moment in time when a range of 'Aftermaths" appear
to be in play:

   * Aftermath of an age in which a neo-conservative ideology dominated
many aspects of social, political, and professional life - lately much
reduced by the contradictions in its own attempts at reproduction.
   * Aftermath of an age of environmentally unsustainable political
economies.
   * Aftermath of an age of monolithic mainstream media dominance where
multiple resistances on a plethora of digital platforms are in play and ripe
for critical discussion.
   * Aftermath of a regional decline. The international space of
Buffalo/Niagara offer an example of urban areas laid most low by the
neo-conservative agenda that have, ironically, offered spaces for a new
flowering of media alternatives and critical social justice pedagogies.

We seek submissions from critical perspectives that interrogate media
institutions and technologies, economic structures, cultural processes, and
audiences; offer case studies in critical pedagogy; and examine and
demonstrate media activism.

Final Submission Deadline is March 15th, 2009. Earlier submissions will be
reviewed on a monthly basis.

For panel and paper abstract submissions or other conference inquiries,
please contact UDC2009@gmail.com

DOWNLOAD Printable (PDF) Version of the Call for Papers:
http://mediastudy.com/udc.pdf

Up to date conference information is available at:
http://www.buffalostate.edu/udc/

Please distribute this call widely through your networks.



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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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