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Dec 4, 2014 | Annual Conference

 ASIAN MEDIA INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION CENTRE (AMIC)
24th AMIC Annual Conference 

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 Communicating in an e-Asia: values, technologies and challenges
In partnership with
American University in Dubai (AUD), Dubai
10 – 13 June, 2015

Delegates to AMIC Dubai 2015 are advised to plan their travels in advance. You should be applying for a visa, booking your hotel and flights sooner rather than later. In terms of gaining a visa to enter Dubai:

There are a couple of ways to get the UAE visa. Through a:

For more information on visas and entry to the UAE please click here.

 

Please see “Hotel Information” on this website for suggestions on booking a hotel. Thank you.

 

EVENT DETAILS

Register Here

 

Call for Abstracts/Papers

Call for Abstracts/Papers

Dec 4, 2014 | Annual Conference

 ASIAN MEDIA INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION CENTRE (AMIC)
24th AMIC Annual Conference 

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 Communicating in an e-Asia: values, technologies and challenges
In partnership with
American University in Dubai (AUD), Dubai
10 – 13 June, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers will be selected on a competitive basis and all submissions will be screened by an expert panel.

Deadline extended to February 5, 2015!

Abstracts due:        05 January, 2015
Full papers due:     16 March, 2015

Abstracts and papers should be submitted via e-mail (conference@amic.org.sg). Please do not send papers to the personal e-mail addresses of conference organizers.

Papers accepted for presentation at the cancelled 2014 AMIC Conference in Thailand still qualify for presentation. Authors should confirm their intent to present on or before 05 January 2015.
 
There will also be an Arabic-track for this conference arranged by AUD. The information for the Arabic submissions will be handled via the AUD conference website (coming soon).

FORMAT FOR ABSTRACTS

Indicate your proposed “Conference Stream” in the subject line of your e-mail.

E-mail should contain the following:

  • Paper title
  • Author name, position, institution
  • Short biography of Author (100 words)
  • Paper abstract (500 words)

FORMAT FOR PAPERS

Indicate “Full Paper” and relevant conference stream in the subject line of your e-mail.
Papers:

  • Should be written in English
  • Be of 5,000-8,000 words in length
  • Have citation in APA Style
  • Should be Microsoft Word or RTF document. Font should be Times New Roman, 12 pts. Please use plain text and not formatting.

For more information please contact: 
Mr. Ramon Tuazon (rrtuazon722@yahoo.com)

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

 

CRITERIA FOR REVIEW 
Abstracts
Criteria to be used to evaluate abstracts include the following:

  • Relevance of the topic to the conference theme
  • Well-defined topics /issue(s) to be examined and discussed
  • Originality and innovativeness of topic
  • Adherence to solid research design and methodology (for research-based papers)
  • Limitations identified (for research-based papers)
  • Good language and writing quality and logical organization of paper
  • Potential contributions to the advancement of communication theory, research and practice

Full paper
Criteria to be used to evaluate abstracts/full papers include the following:

  • Extensive and appropriate literature review
  • Good writing quality, e.g., style is clear and engaging
  • Logical organization of paper
  • In-depth and evidence-based analysis and conclusions
  • Concrete recommendations for research, policy, and action projects
  • Publication-ready

 

EVENT DETAILS

Register Here

 

AMIC 24th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Oct 28, 2014 | Annual Conference

ASIAN MEDIA INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION CENTRE (AMIC)

24th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Communicating in an e-Asia: values, technologies, and challenges

in partnership with the American University in Dubai (AUD) Dubai, United Arab Emirates

10th-13th June, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

Globally, the last decade has seen exponential growth in the use of mobile technologies and the Internet. From e-mail to e-governance, e-commerce to e-learning, Internet usage has changed the way the world communicates.

At the forefront of the electronic and digital revolution in Asia has been the mobile phone. Recent International Telecommunication Union (ITU) statistics indicate that in the period from 2005 to 2013, mobile (cellular) phone subscriber numbers in the Asia-Pacific region have soared from 833 million to 3,547 million users. The era of an e-Asia has dawned.

The benefits of instant, intranational and trans-border communication have impacted upon almost every aspect of life, with mobile phones and the Internet providing new pathways for inter-personal communication, business and commercial enterprise, community development, educational opportunity, governance, and democratic reform. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are an enabling factor in supporting marginalized societies to more beneficially interact with a broader citizenry, while the convergence of computers, media, and telecommunications has created new platforms for entrepreneurship, education, and political inclusion.

However, in the Asia-Pacific region, where cultural traditions and family values are hugely respected and deeply ingrained, the influences of a new ‘e-Asia literacy’ are impacting on social conventions, etiquette, language and community structures. In a homogenized international ‘knowledge society’ where communication processes transcend national boundaries, the retention of traditional values and ways of life are increasingly challenged.  

Conference streams (including):

  • communication and society
  • cultural impact of ICTs
  • social media and society
  • youth and the Internet
  • e-learning, trends and possibilities
  • media and a free press
  • communication and marginalized communities
  • ICTs and development
  • the ‘knowledge society’
  • future of communication technologies
  • remote/island societies and new technologies
  • media and gender
  • society and new media
  • education and new technologies
  • development communication and social change
  • broadcasting, past and present
  • freedom of expression in transition societies
  • media history
  • communication theory and ethics
  • environment, climate and communication
  • print media, past and present
  • socio-political development and media
  • cross-cultural influences and developments
  • policy and communication
  • media empowerment

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers will be selected on a competitive basis and all submissions will be screened by an expert panel.

Abstracts due:                        05 January, 2015

Notification of acceptance   05 February 2015

Full papers due:                     16 March, 2015

Abstracts and papers should be submitted via e-mail (conference@amic.org.sg). Please do not send papers to the personal e-mail addresses of conference organizers.

Papers accepted for presentation at the cancelled 2014 AMIC Conference in Thailand still qualify for presentation. Authors should confirm their intent to present on or before 05 January 2015.

FORMAT FOR ABSTRACTS

Indicate your proposed “Conference Stream” in the subject line of your e-mail.

E-mail should include the following:

  • paper title
  • author name, position, institution
  • short biography of author (100 words)
  • paper abstract (500 words)

FORMAT FOR PAPERS

Indicate “Full Paper” and relevant conference stream in the subject line of your e-mail.

Papers:

  • should be written in English.
  • be of 5,000-8,000 words in length.
  • have citation in APA style.
  • should be Microsoft Word or RTF document. Font should be Times New Roman, 12 pts. Please use plain text and not formatting.

For more information, please contact Mr. Ramon Tuazon (rrtuazon722@yahoo.com or r.tuazon@amic.org.sg)

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

CRITERIA FOR REVIEW

Abstracts

Criteria to be used to evaluate abstracts include the following:

  • Relevance of the topic to the conference theme
  • Well-defined topics /issue(s) to be examined and discussed
  • Originality and innovativeness of topic
  • Adherence to solid research design and methodology (for research-based papers)
  • Limitations identified (for research-based papers)
  • Good language and writing quality and logical organization of paper
  • Potential contributions to the advancement of communication theory, research and practice

Full Papers

Criteria to be used to evaluate abstracts full papers include the following:

  • Extensive and appropriate literature review
  • Good writing quality, e.g., style is clear and engaging
  • Logical organization of paper
  • In-depth and evidence-based analysis and conclusions
  • Concrete recommendations for research, policy, and action projects
  • Publication-ready 
AMIC 2014 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED

AMIC 2014 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED

Oct 28, 2014 | Annual Conference

AMIC is delighted to announce  that the 23rd AMIC Annual Conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 9th-12th  July, 2014.

The conference host is the Faculty of Communication Arts at  Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.

Chulalongkorn University, the Pillar of the Kingdom, is Thailand’s  first institution of higher learning and officially came into being in March,  1917. Chula, as it is affectionately known, is renowned internationally for its academic standards, teaching and research.

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The theme for the AMIC 2014  conference is Communicating in an e-Asia: values, technologies and challenges.  Further information on the conference venue and the ‘call for papers’ will be  made available shortly.

We cordially invite all AMIC  members and friends to note the conference dates and to join us in Bangkok for  this highlight event. For more information please visit the conference website.

AMIC SECRETARIAT RELOCATES TO THE PHILIPPINES

AMIC SECRETARIAT RELOCATES TO THE PHILIPPINES

Oct 3, 2014 | Member Updates, News

Dear AMIC members and friends,

Greetings!

I’m writing to share with you some important developments with regard to AMIC.

AMIC was founded in 1971 and has always been based in Singapore. Since 1996, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has been our headquarters and also the single most generous financial supporter of AMIC. However, NTU now has new priorities and the high level of support it has been providing AMIC is no longer feasible from its own perspective. For us, however, the much reduced offer of support it made is not sufficient to run even the basic operations of AMIC.

Thus, your Board of Directors was compelled to look for an alternative location for the Secretariat operations of AMIC. The Board received a few proposals from interested parties to host AMIC. After much deliberation, and weighing all the pros and cons of various hosts, the Board has concluded that the proposal from a consortium of the Philippines Women’s University (PWU) and the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) in Manila was the best. The proposed PWU-AIJC Consortium involves an established university and an eminent NGO. The consortium’s strengths are congruous with the key AMIC functions in research and training, as well as our publications programme.

Thus, while AMIC remains a ‘company limited by guarantee’ registered under the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, Singapore, the day to day operations of the Secretariat will move from Singapore to Manila shortly. We will ensure that the transition is as smooth as possible.

Another important development is the change of leadership at AMIC headquarters. Dr Martin Hadlow, who has been serving AMIC as Acting Secretary General for the past two years, has stepped down from his position but remains on the Board. In view of the transfer of AMIC headquarters to Manila, the Board has now appointed Mr Ramon Tuazon, current AMIC Board Member from the Philippines, as the new Acting Secretary General until a permanent appointment is made. You will be soon hearing from Ramon directly.

On behalf of the Board and all members of AMIC, I wish to record our deep gratitude to NTU, especially the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, its Chair, Prof Chuck Salmon, and its staff for their long and generous support of AMIC over the years. The association with NTU has been rewarding and fulfilling.

I also wish to record, on all our behalf, our great appreciation to Martin for stepping in to act as the Secretary General during a difficult transition. He served AMIC ably and unstintingly, and towards the end, without any remuneration. It was a remarkable gesture of his commitment to AMIC and the Board and management of AMIC are most grateful to him.

Next, I wish to warmly welcome Ramon as the new Acting Secretary General and, on all our behalf, wish him the best in his new undertaking in AMIC. We very much look forward to the new chapter opening in Manila under his leadership.

You will be pleased to know that the AMIC management has already started to work on the next Annual Conference and we hope to make a formal announcement soon.

Finally, on behalf of your Board and my personal behalf, I wish to thank each and every member of AMIC for their continued support and understanding. Without you, we would not have come this far, nor will we go much further.

 

Arun Mahizhnan
Chair, Board of Directors
AMIC