Chair: Kate Coyer
Presentations:
Aneta Podkalicka & Ellie Rennie (Swinburne University of Technology): Media work for social transformation: Reflections on a creative workforce within community-based youth media program.
Faiz Ullah & Nikhil Titus (School of Media & Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences): Cultural capacity and political action: Community media initiatives in the slums of Eastern Mumbai.
Siyuan Yin (University of Massachusetts at Amherst): Third-sector media for marginalized and underrepresented groups in China.
Wei-Ching Wang (Graduate Institute of Mass Communication, National Taiwan Normal University): Name rectification politics of “the Others” for the media – A comparative study on homosexuals, new immigrants, and people with disabilities.
Steven Watts (McMaster University): Online debates about Hamilton’s Bus Lane: Mobilizing democracy and citizen engagement.