Call for Public , Citizen Journalism Panels, Papers
This from the Civic Journalism Interest Group in the AEJMC
Call for Paper Abstracts and Panel Proposals
This conference will be happening here at Kennesaw State University, and I will be helping to run it. Watch this site for more information in the future. Here is the information you need to know now:
AEJMC Midwinter Conference
Feb. 11-12, 2005
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GA (20 miles north of Atlanta)
Submission requirements: Authors are invited to submit research paper abstracts or panel proposals to be considered for presentation at the 2005 AEJMC mid-winter conference. Submissions can address any aspect of civic, or public, journalism, which now extends into citizen and participatory journalism. Proposals may include work in progress. We encourage you to propose ideas that address civic journalism and issues of interest to other participating co-sponsors is encouraged. Graduate student submissions are strongly encouraged. Here are some specific guidelines for submission:
1. All proposals must be submitted by Dec. 20, 2004. E-mail proposals to Venise Wagner, San Francisco State University, at vwagner@sfsu.edu. Please use a standard word-processing format (preferably RTF) for all attachments.
2. Research paper or panel proposals should include a 300- to 500-word abstract. In addition, each panel proposal should include a list of potential panelists.
3. Identify the papers author(s) or panels organizer(s) on the title page only and include the mailing address, telephone number and e-mail address of the person to whom inquiries about the submission should be addressed. The title should be printed on the first page of the text and on running heads on each page of text, as well as on the title page.
The on-site coordinator is Leonard Witt, CJIGs immediate past president.
Participating AEJMC divisions/interest groups: Civic Journalism, Communication Technology & Policy, Media Management & Economics, Cultural and Critical Studies, Mass Communication and Society, Visual Communication, Entertainment Studies and Graduate Education.
Reservations: Further details on registering for the conference, registering for pre-conference events, housing and traveling to the conference is available here.
