Sunday, 6 December 2015

Tentative Schedule now available

National Seminar on
Politics and Poetics of Representation: Popular Culture and Contemporary Media

20th and 21st of January 2016
Organised by
PG Department of English
SS College Areacode (Accredited by NAAC with A grade)
Affiliated to Calicut University
Areacode , Malappuram, Kerala, India

Selected abstracts will be uploaded shortly.

Mail your full papers  to    sscollegemediaandculture@gmail.com
Date of Intimation of Accepted Papers: 2rd January 2016




Last Date for Submission of full Papers: 19th January 2016
Selected Papers will be published in a book with ISBN number



The emergence of disciplines like Media Studies and Cultural Studies has initiated critical debates on the way media represent popular culture. The politics and poetics of media intervention in the sphere of culture, when looked at from a critical vantage point seem very problematic. The omissions, distortions, and sometimes even blatant misrepresentations in the media space have come under scanner.
            In the last couple of decades, the agenda of mainstream media is increasingly set by the New Media. Social Media is no more an inferior other, but an equal stake holder. The tools of new media have metamorphosed the otherwise passive consumers of news to actual producers of news. The possibility of instant circulation and critical intervention makes social media space a potent force in the contemporary times. Social media is a site where print, mass, and online media converge. 
In the contemporary global context, media space is witnessing radical transformations. On the one hand there is the corporatization of media, and on the other hand there is the emergence of alternative media. Media has emerged as a site of critical intervention, but attempts are made to curtail the freedom of expression and to curb the freedom of the press.
The main objective of this seminar is to problematize and interrogate such critical issues. The political, sociological, and cultural dimensions of these issues are pertinent in these troubled times. The seminar aims to bring together media persons, cultural activists, and academicians so as to initiate more meaningful explorations of the linkages between popular culture and contemporary media.
We invite abstracts from media persons, academicians, research scholars and students on the following thrust areas.
·         Media and Representation
·         Media and Education
·         Media and Culture
·         Media and the Subaltern
·         Media and Youth
·         Digital India and Digital divide
·         Net Neutrality and Freedom of Expressions
·         Media and Censorship
·         New Media
Guidelines for Submission
Ø  Authors are requested to strictly follow the following submission guidelines:
Ø  Manuscript must be written in English language
Ø  File must be in Microsoft Word format. (Preferably Word 2007)
Ø  Paper size: A4, Font & size: Times New Roman 12, whereas the title must be in 14 point size, bold.
Ø  Word – limit: 250 words for abstract and 2500 words for full paper.
Ø  The authors may follow MLA 7th or later edition in preparing their papers.
Ø  Add about 4 to 5 keywords one line bellow the abstract.
Ø  Mail your abstract to sscollegemediaandculture@gmail.com
Registration Fee
Participation
Participation and presentation
Publication
P.G Students
100
200
1000
Research Scholars
100
250
1000
Teachers
200
300
1000
Selected Papers will be published in a book with ISBN number
Lunch will be provided for the registered participants on both days
Important Information
Mail your abstract to   sscollegemediaandculture@gmail.com
For more details
Visit the Seminar Website (Selected abstracts will be published in it)
mediaseminar15.blogspot.in
sscollege.ac.in
Call : 9846756354, 9895922512
Seminar Co-coordinator      Convenor                     Head                                       
Jouhar.k                                 Ashfar SAdth               Dr. Zahira M