Call for Papers

Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC)

22nd International Annual Conference
4-7 July 2013
in partnership with the U Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Theme: Transformational Communication and the New Asia

The theme of this year’s annual AMIC conference seeks to highlight the role of communication and the media in bringing about a ‘New Asia’, that is, an Asia that is slowly transforming into a ‘soft power’ as Europe and North America seem to continue their decline.

A recent study by the Asian Development Bank noted that, “Asia is in the midst of a truly historic transformation. It holds the promise of making some 3 billion additional Asians, hitherto commonly associated with poverty and deprivation, affluent by today’s standards.”

With this economic growth comes ‘soft power’, seen in the growing global influence of Asian culture, symbolized by, for example, the rising Bollywood and Hong Kong genre in films, Japanese anime and Korean pop music. It is also seen in the Asian presence in various communication channels. Most Asian nations have their own radio and television networks and have reduced their reliance on Western-oriented international news agencies for their world news content. And their social and mobile media presence is overwhelming. To illustrate, the Internet Worldstats.com reports that Chinese is the second most used language on the Internet (after English). Japanese rated fourth, and Korean was tenth.

Conference streams:

  • new media, old media ethics
  • media and revolution
  • new media literacies
  • ethnicity, race and religion in communication
  • communication and youth
  • leadership and the media
  • new paradigms in development communication
  • cross-cultural networking
  • policy and communication
  • gender and communication
  • media and a free press
  • broadcasting, past and present
  • print communication, past and present
  • media history and evolution
  • freedom of expression in transition societies
  • socio-political development and the media
  • media empowerment
  • communication and social change

    • CALL FOR PAPERS
    Papers will be selected on a competitive basis and an expert panel will be appointed for screening all the submissions.

    Abstracts due: 30 April 2013
    Full papers due: 1 June 2013

    To be submitted via email conference@amic.org.sg. Papers should NOT to be emailed to personal emails of conference organizers.

    FORMAT FOR ABSTRACTS
    1. Indicate your proposed “Conference Stream” in the subject line of your email
    2. E-mail should contain the following:

    FORMAT FOR PAPERS
    1. Should be written in English and, if you must use jargon, clearly explain its meaning.
    2. Length is 5,000-8,000 words
    3. Citation should be in APA Style
    4. Submit using Microsoft Word or RTF document. Font Times New Roman, 12 pts. Please use plain text and not formatting.
    5. Subject line should say “full paper and conference stream”

    For more information please contact Ms. Rachel Khan at rekhan@amic.org.sg or Ms. Sangeetha Madasamy at sangeetha@amic.org.sg.

    Note to all authors: By submitting your paper, you agree, that if your paper gets selected you will register and present the paper. All co-authors attending and/or presenting at the conference must register too.

    Criteria for Review

    Abstracts
    Criteria used to judge abstracts will include, but not restricted to the following:

  • Topic
  • Theoretical Orientation
  • Research Design
  • Results
  • Quality of writing and organization of the paper
  • Indications of potential contributions of the study to communication research in Asia

    • Full paper
    Criteria used to judge full papers will include, but not restricted to the following:

  • Purpose of the paper
  • Organization of the paper
  • Literature Review
  • Research Methodology
  • Relevance of paper to the conference
  • Subject of the paper representing a significant direction for communication research in Asia
  • Quality of writing

    • Evidences and conclusions relating to the purpose of the paper with the evidence supporting the conclusions