“Freedom and Prejudice”

Istanbul, Turkey
5-7 October 2006

This year, the theme of the “Communication, Mass Media and Culture” conference will be Freedom and Prejudice. The conference will be held at Bahcesehir University, located in central Istanbul. The organizers invite paper proposals addressing any aspect of the conference theme. Papers from a wide variety of subjects including journalism, mass media, technology and new media, film, television, advertising, public relations, visual culture, cultural studies are welcome.

There will be a conference registration fee of $75. Graduate students and participants from institutions located in low-income and lower-middle-income economies are eligible for a reduced conference fee. See http://www.worldbank.org/data/countryclass/classgroups.htm for a list of low-income and lower-middle-income economies. A list of hotels, located in close proximity to the conference location and with specially negotiated prices, will also be posted to the conference website.

Abstracts should be 500 words in length, and should give some indication as to the theoretical grounding of the paper. The deadline for abstracts is June 23, 2006. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be no later than June 30, 2006. Please send your abstract to freedom@bahcesehir.edu.tr

Submissions must contain the following information: (1) name, (2) title/position, (3) institutional affiliation, (4) email, telephone and postal address, (5) abstract. Abstracts should be sent in main body of the email (NOT as attachments) to the following:

Co-chairs of the Conference

Ali Atif Bir, Ph.D.
Dean, Faculty of Communication
Bahcesehir University, Istanbul

James L. Gaudino, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Communication and Information
Kent State University, Kent , Ohio

Conference Organizing Committee:

Suheyla Kirca Schroeder, Ph.D.
Vice Dean, Faculty of Communication
Bahcesehir University, Istanbul

LEtt Hanson, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, College of Communication and Information
Kent State University, Kent , Ohio

For further information please visit our web site:

http://iletisim.bahcesehir.edu.tr/freedom