Blogging and Vlogging Contest

Blogging and Vlogging Contest

Feb 27, 2018 | Annual Conference

Asian Millennials!

join our blogging and vlogging contest on the theme:

 Disturbing the Asian Millennials: Some Creative Responses

Win cash and other prices !

Open to teachers and students

The rules:

  1. The essay contest is open to all Asians—with two separate categories:

(a) For college teachers in communication, English, communication arts, Media Information Literacy (MIL) and related courses, and

(b) College students enrolled in communication degree courses (communication arts, mass communication, journalism, broadcasting, and social media).

  1. The contest is sponsored by the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) based in Manila.
  2. Officers and staff of the sponsoring organization are disqualified from joining the contest.
  3. The contest will run from February 15 to April 30, 2018. The winners will be announced in the mass media and social media not later than May 30, 2018.
  4. The contestants are to blog/vlog on the theme of the coming AMIC Annual International Conference.

 Entry Requirements

  1. The blog and vlog entries must be in English.
  2. All entries must be grammatically sound and conform to standards of good English.
  3. The blogs and vlogs may either tell stories or express opinion.
  4. Entries containing dirty, foul and offensive language are subject to immediate disqualification.
  5. The vlogs should be in landscape orientation and at least 640 x 480 resolution. Vlog entries must not be more than three (3) minutes. It is advised that the entries be uploaded in the participants’ Youtube account for easier linking and dissemination to the judges.
  6. The vlog entries will be judged on the basis of their compelling visuals, and impressions they convey to their audiences.
  7. Blogs must not exceed 1,000 words.
  8. The blogs will be judged in the basis of their impact on the readers.

 

Criteria for Judging

In detail, the blog and vlog entries will be judged based on the following criteria:

Online Votes 25%
By the Panel of  Judges
Overall Impressions

  • Entertainment quality
  • Clarity of Expression
  • Verbal/Visual Presentation
 25%
Relevance of content

  • Adherence/Appropriateness to Theme
  • Usefulness of information
  • Social Impact
 35%
Grammatical Correctness 15%

 

The contestants are encouraged to access the AMIC website (www.amic.asia) and the AMIC conference website ________ for background information about the organization, conference and conference theme before writing their essays. Contestants may do additional research and interviews as needed before writing their essays.

 

Submission of Entries

  1. Each participant is allowed to submit one entry only.
  2. Contest participants must register online at the official website of AMIC (https://amic.asia/amic-annual-conference/26th-amic-annual-conference-india-2018/competitions) and fill out the AMIC Vlogging and Blogging Competition online registration/entry form. AMIC will only accept entries submitted online through the AMIC website.
  3. The link to the entries will be automatically forwarded to the country representatives who will shortlist and send three (3) finalists from each country for each category to AMIC Manila.
  4. Deadline for the online submission of entries is on April 30, 2018 (Monday) at 11:30 p.m. Philippine Standard Time. The submission portal will automatically close and reject any entries that will be submitted after the deadline.

The contestants must identify their country of residence when they submit their entries. 

Screening of Entries

The decisions of the judges are final.

Rgional Screening

  1. The entries to the competition will first be screened by the country representatives.
  2. For each country-screening, the judges shall select the top three (3) entries for each category that will eventually move on to the grand finals of the competition.
  3. All the grand finalists under the Teacher and Student categories will be formally notified by AMIC via email through conference@amic.asia.

 

Grand Finals

  • Final judging day will be in May 2018 and the results announced before the conference starts June 7, 2018.  There will be first, second and third prizes for each category.
  • AMIC Manila will launch online voting on May 1, 2018. A voting guide will be released upon announcing the finalists to the contest.
  • Online votes will be monitored and validated by AMIC Secretariat.

 

Prizes

The winners (six teachers and six students) will be given the following prizes:

  1. Cash prizes of USD 300 for first, USD 200 for second and USD 100 for third places.
  2. Free Basic AMIC memberships for one year which will entitle them to one-year subscriptions to two online editions of AMIC journals—the Asian Journal of Communication and Media Asia.
  3. Fifty per cent discount in registration fees in the coming AMIC annual conference June 7-9, 2018 at Karnataka, India.

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Conference Theme

Conference Theme

Jan 30, 2018 | Annual Conference

AMIC 26th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Disturbing Asian Millennials: Some Creative Responses

Asian Millenials

 

Understanding the Asia Pacific Millennials

Millennials, the 16‐34 year‐olds, make up the majority of the total population of many Asia Pacific countries. It is estimated that there are about 606 million millennials in the Asia‐Pacific region.

While millennials make up a homogenous group in terms of age cluster, they can be categorized as either non‐affluent or affluent with the latter outnumbering as they account for 82 percent of all millennials in the region.[1]

Another reality is that these millennials are located in a geographically and culturally diverse setting.

Current and emerging socioeconomic and political realities are “disturbing” the millennials just as they have the capacity to disturb society.

Globalization, migration, and technology are some of the major factors that are redefining millennials way of life. They are digital natives who do not only “consume” media but prefer creating their own content. Technology (read: smart mobiles) is not a tool but the air they breathe. Social networking is an essential prerequisite to be connected. A major fear is to be a FOLO – Fear of Life Offline. Erstwhile, fear was to be a FOMO – Fear of Missing Out.

Preserving the status quo or being a mere passive spectator is out of the question as their lifestyle and work style is ruled by engagement, creativity, innovation, and change.

Millennials are into multitasking for several reasons but primarily to earn as much from as many revenue sources to be able to purchase their wants (and needs). Multitasking is also a means for creative expression –which they have plenty. From multitasking, they are now evolving into being multi‐hyphenate, e.g., a young professional writer, artist, and entrepreneur rolled into one.

How do millennials disturb society? Their being independent (if not self‐absorbed or “me culture”) makes them in‐charge of their future. They demand new careers (or even create their own) as they find many existing disciplines and professions as very traditional. The competencies earned in school are mere inputs to redesigning new careers. The school is just one of the many learning hubs.

Disturbing does not refer only to a negative disruption but also to a movement needed to rebuild a broken or unsettled society. We must disrupt in order to rebuild!

Are we disturbing our millennials giving them the environment conducive to change? Or are we just distracting them from releasing their energy?

We are “distracting” our millennials if we insist on enforcing inflexible rules, offering traditional (read: archaic) programs, setting or measuring standards and practices based on obsolete measures, feeding them with alternative truths (facts), and not giving value to arts and humanities (which has found renewal among our young people).

True to form, millennials can initiate and lead if the existing systems are unable to “deliver” what are needed to rebuild a society they envision.

Disturbing Asian Millennials: Some Creative Responses will examine the disruptions affecting our millennials and how these young people are creatively responding to or coping with disruptive changes and challenges. The conference will also crowdsource from them ideas and strategies in creating and building an alternative or desired Asian community. 

Forum Objectives

The forum provides a platform to achieve the following:

  • Understand the millennial mindset and behavior especially their career goals and plans;
  • Describe the unique communication behaviors, patterns, and tools of millennials andthe messages which resonate to them
  • Share lessons and experiences on how millennials creatively and critically respond todisruptions;
  • Examine communication strategies which work for the young generation; and
  • Crowdsource recommendations from millennials on what constitutes an ideal advancedcommunication program highlighting 21st century competencies and skills. 

Conference Style and Approach

AMIC 26th Annual Conference is envisioned to be for and by Asian millennials.

The conference may begin by featuring millennial “triggers” who will describe and examine ongoing disruptions and their impact on young people and society in general. The triggers are also expected to raise questions (and issues) which require reflection during and after the forum. The triggers will also discuss an ideal advanced communication education that will empower the young people to pursue a career of their choice (and design).

The triggers will be followed by the innovators, millennials who have shown exemplary practices as communication entrepreneurs or professionals. These innovators will also outline the competencies gained inside (and outside) the classroom and how these competencies enable them to succeed, if not excel. They may react to the insights shared by the triggers and present their own recommendations on how to succeed in chosen career(s) and define an ideal advanced communication program.

Plenary Session Themes (as of 30 April 2018)

  • Millennials’ Concept of Democracy: Freedom of Expression for All vs. Freedom of Expression for Themselves
  • The Influence of Social Media Algorithms on Millennials’ Communication Behaviors and Attitudes
  • Exploration of the Methodological Innovations Required for Conducting Millennial Communication Research in Asia
  • Media and Information Literacy (MIL) as Core Competency of Asian Millennials
  • Making Agricultural Communication an Attractive Career Option for Asian Millennials 

Under Parallel Session Topics (as of 30 April 2018)

  • Branding Millennials: Images and Identity
  • Millennials Communication Styles, Behaviors, and Patterns
  • A Passion for Technology – Millennials Communication Tools
  • News & Current Affairs Consumption (or Creation) Practices – The Emergence of User Generated Content
  • Marketing Communication Strategies for Millennials
  • How Millennials Dialogue with their Elders
  • Core Communication Competencies of Millennials
  • Intercultural Communication among Young People (including How to Deal with Prejudices and Preventing Extremism)
  • Communication as a Career Option:  Redefining the Profession
  • Children and Gender Issues in an Evolving Mediascape
  • Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
  • Data Management and Utilization
  • Media and Culture

 

 

 

 

[1] https://asia‐research.net/reaching‐asias‐affluent‐millennials/

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AMIC invites bids to host 2018, 2019, and 2020 Annual Conferences

Mar 15, 2017 | Annual Conference

AMIC is now inviting partners to submit expression of interest and proposal to host AMIC Conferences in 2018, 2019, and 2020.

The AMIC’s Annual Conference is a premier event on Asian communication media, attracting some 300 eminent international speakers and participants from the communication media sector and academe. 

The conference also serves as an occasion to grant the prestigious AMIC Asia Communication Award to outstanding media and communication professionals. 

The annual event is hosted in rotation by countries across the Asia Pacific region.  In recent past, AMIC annual conferences were held in Dubai (2015), Indonesia (2013), Malaysia (2012), India (2011), and Singapore (2010).

This year, the 2017 AMIC 25th Annual Conference is going to be held at Miriam College in Quezon City, Philippines from 27-29 September 2017.

Institutions interested to host the succeeding annual conferences should fill up and submit the expression of interest and proposal form to AMIC Secretary General Ramon R. Tuazon at email addresses r.tuazon@amic.asia or rrtuazon722@yahoo.com. 

Deadline for submission of expression of interest and proposal form is 15 July 2017.

The host institutions (countries) for the next three years will be announced during the AMIC Manila 2017 Conference.