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The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submission of abstracts for its 2011 academic conference to be held at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 13 to 17, 2011. The general theme of the conference is ‘Cities, Creativity, Connectivity’.

Mapping GMP allows to identify actors, processes, outcomes and resources; foster access to relevant information; build and share new and existing knowledge; stimulate worldwide collaboration and enhance actors' capacities to intervene in policy settings.

What is the relationship between music, gender, and globalization? Only a limited precedent exists for studies that thematize all three terms, perhaps because of different fields' specific genealogies.

The sharing of music files has been the focus of a massive struggle between representatives of major record companies and artists in the music industry, on one side, and peer–to–peer (p2p) file–sharing services and their users, on the other.

The COST Action will coordinate research efforts into the key transformations of European audiences within a changing media and communication environment, identifying their complex interrelationships with the social, cultural and political areas of European societies.

The aim of the course is to refine the level of knowledge of the participating Ph.D. students on the economic and political structures and mechanisms affecting technology development in the information and communication technology (ICT) area.

Applications are invited for a three-year Research Associate position offered as part of an interdisciplinary project (LEEDR), focused on the use of digital and social media in domestic energy demand reduction...

Among the consecutive international events that are being organized to celebrate McLuhan’s centenary in Toronto, Berlin and Rome, is the International Conference “McLuhan Galaxy, Understanding Media, Today” that will take place in Barcelona, May 2011, 23-25.

For those who are interested in Chinese media and China's position in the global media industry, this might be a conference to consider. The topic addressed will be the relationships between the government and information media, new media communities and media advertising in China. May 5-6, 2011

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world.