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AMIC
APPOINTS DR SUNDEEP MUPPIDI AS NEW SECRETARY-GENERAL
The Asian Media Information and Communication Centre
(AMIC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr.
Sundeep R. Muppidi as its new Secretary-General, effective
1 January 2010. He succeeds Dr Indrajit Banerjee who
left AMIC in July last year to join the United Nations
Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
AMIC is a 39-year old non-governmental, non-profit,
pan-Asian organization headquartered in Singapore. It
is dedicated to the development of media and communication
fields.
Dr. Muppidi has been the AMIC Country Representative
in the United States since 2006 and has collaborated
with AMIC in a number of research projects in recent
years such as HIV AIDS, Journalism Training Curriculum
Development, and Public Service Broadcasting in the
Age of Globalization. He is also the co-editor of AMIC’s
latest release, Changing Media, Changing Societies:
Media and the Millennium Development Goals.
At AMIC, Dr Muppidi will not only strengthen current
activities in media, communication and information fields
but also spearhead new initiatives in media research,
capacity building and online publications.
Prior to joining AMIC, he was an Associate Professor
in the School of Communication and the Multimedia Web
Design and Development Programme (formerly Interactive
Information Technology) at the University of Hartford
in West Hartford, CT. Dr. Muppidi also served the International
Communication Division of the Association for Education
in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in various
capacities including as the Chair of the Division.
Dr. Muppidi is an alumnus of the Management Development
Programme of the School of Education of Harvard University.
He has a doctorate in Mass Communication from Bowling
Green State University in Ohio, a Master’s in
Communication from the University of Hyderabad, India
and has over 15 years of teaching experience at universities
around the world. His teaching and research interests
are in media studies, international communication, new
media and communication technologies, health communication,
globalization, communication for social change and empowerment,
video and multimedia production, and Qualitative and
Quantitative Research Methods.
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The Asian
Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC)
is pleased to announce its 19th Annual Conference, to
be held in Singapore on 21-23 June 2010, at Suntec City.
AMIC is especially happy to hold this conference back
to back with the International Communication
Association (ICA) Conference which will take
place at the same venue from 23 to 26 June. This is
a rare opportunity for you to spend a whole week listening
to and interacting with many of the best brains in the
media world on an extraordinary range of topics and
issues.
The theme of the 19th Annual
Conference is “Technology and Culture:
Communication Connectors and Dividers”.
Communication technology is often seen as a connector
of people. Certainly, millions are now able to connect
and communicate with each other in ways never before
imagined. And the world has shrunk in distance and time,
thanks to this technology. However, people have not
been homogenised by using common technology. Nor have
their responses been alike to the same technology. One
country uses the technology to liberate its people while
another uses the same technology to shackle its people.
One group of people embrace new technology for its ease
and convenience while another group abjures it as an
invasion of privacy and a violation of security. In
one society, the technology narrows the gap between
the haves and the have-nots and in another it widens
the gap. A common factor that is often seen in all these
variations is the role of culture in technology absorption
and diffusion. Though culture is not the only factor
to affect the use of technology, it is a salient one.
The theme of this conference is designed to explore
the interplay of technological determinism and cultural
determinism and the spectrum of intersections between
these polarities. In Asia, the range of experiences
in various countries with new communication technologies
provide a wealth of insights and indicators that would
be of much value to those who study the media world
or practice in it.
The AMIC conference is
open to academics, media industry professionals, government
agencies, policymakers, regulators, UN agencies, donors,
research groups, civil society organizations, independent
consultants and students.
For more details, please click
here!
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RADIOASIA
2010 CONFERENCE
Journey to the Digital Land: Addressing Diverse Radio
Audiences and Markets
Date: 22-24 February 2010
in New Delhi, India.
As radio broadcasting
continues to develop, one business approach has been
the creation of ever greater options for listeners.
Experience from around the world has shown that audiences
are indifferent to the platform they access content
from. With so much consumer choice available, broadcasters
really need to grab their audiences, or they will just
hit a button and jump somewhere else. How can radio
broadcasters be where the action is? And how can they
get the attention of the audiences?
Across Asia public radio has played
a central role in nation building in the postcolonial
era. With the rapid pace of change in radio in India,
there are many pressing issues that the resurgent industry
needs to face. Among the challenges facing commercial
radio are: content diversity, establishing brands, access
to frequencies, high licensing fees, generating stable
revenues, sharing the advertising pie, and the acute
need to offer current affairs programming. Industry
needs to provide value to consumers. This conference
will bring value to all radio broadcasters and the wider
radio industry.
Content has always been the key driver
for broadcasting services, and in the digital era this
is even more the case. It is imperative to stand out
from the crowd and offer content that grabs listeners
and keeps their attention. Digital radio provides many
possibilities for new content applications and a host
of data-based services, including images – visual
radio. Content for digital radio can be quite different
from that broadcast on analogue.
Radio’s strength has, and continues
to be, the fact that it does not see new developments
as threats; rather it has adopted, integrated and made
these features part of the ‘seamlessness’
of radio, making radio available on the move.
With a focus on India, RadioAsia 2010
will explore the diversity of the radio scene in Asia,
where new technologies and broadcast regulation regimes
are providing greater choices for the industry to become
both entertainers and educators of the community. RadioAsia
2010 brings together leading radio practitioners, communication
specialists, policy makers, and academics from across
the Asia-Pacific and beyond. Eminent speakers, who specialise
in various aspects of radio and communications, will
share their perspectives.
For more details, please
click here!
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