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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>The Tunisian Press and Information Science Institute & <br>The Arab-European Association of Communication and Media Researchers (IPSI / AREACORE ) <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Call for papers for a scientific international conference on<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:22.0pt;background:white'>Social Media in a Changing Media Environment: Lessons from the Arab world<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Tunis, October 16-18, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Please also refer to: <a href="http://www.areacore.org/conferences.html">http://www.areacore.org/conferences.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>The beginning of 2011 was marked by the considerable contribution of the new social media in mobilizing and rallying Arab streets, and in inducing changes in the political, social, educational, media and other sectors. While conventional media had long been mirrors reflecting the marginal role played by recipient audiences as consumers not participants or active players, new media was able to enforce new debating, exchange and participation opportunities by offering people broader windows to look for information and the right to contribute to communication operations, and by making the virtual space an alternative to the conventional public space. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>The need-driven interaction between technology and the public enabled new media to recognize that the communication democracy requires participation of all individuals with no exclusion. Social networks, blogs, video-sharing websites and satellite channels that have chosen to stream on the Internet have enforced another type of social freedoms and one of individuals’ and groups’ right for free communication. In particular in the Arab world, social media has played a tremendous role in the political awakening marked by the Arab spring. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>However, social media do raise a number of issues subject of heated debates and controversies; issues are multidimensional and relate to epistemological, technical, cultural and historical factors reflecting two major trends: the first is skeptical due to the technology’s ability to muddle social life with no consideration to technical contexts, the importance of social innovations and the communicative and cultural usages of these technologies, while the second trend is optimistic considering that new media have induced positive change in culture, economy, science, politics, etc… This view considers the virtual world to be an extension of real social life, and that identity can be constructed both socially and virtually.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>From a political perspective, technology offers new tools for political life although it does not constitute the only factor inducing political change.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Arab media discourse is still disturbed and anxious in dealing with the impact of the new media on culture and innovation. On the one hand, this discourse looks at Arab users as being active and engaged in “alternative media” reflecting a new culture based on freedom, diversity, and creativity; on the other hand, it considers them victims of new powers subjugating the online space. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>In this context, some believe that the widespread use of technology in media, education and other institutions does not necessarily reflect their development or the emergence of efficient manpower. Similarly, the development of new social, political and cultural trends does not mean they are shared by all societies i.e. they are not universal. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>The misuse of new media has also resulted in a number of blunders reflecting the real moral face of some media players in the twenty first century and how ideologies are trying to manipulate new media in order to reinforce some parties’ domination over others; this has led some media institutions to address the issue of social media manipulation attempts by developing specific charters that constitute a part of the new digital media ethics including broad or specific areas depending on their contents.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>What is then the guarantee to ensure safe usage of new media? How can we prevent against risks raised by the new media in the Arab World now witnessing a number of political, social, cultural and information transformations?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>This conference will make an attempt to understand various approaches dealing with the new media and to identify the role of online stakeholders in dismantling the sets of values and developing them again. It thrives to comprehend transformations induced by the use of new media in the political, social, cultural, and economic spheres. It will also tackle the changes affecting the work of media and communication professionals, and also their influence on professional ethics and the need to respect individual privacy. Presentations dealing with the aforementioned issues will be welcomed and should be integrated into one of the following panels:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>Topic 1</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>: Social Media in the Arab World: Theoretical and Historical Approaches<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>Topic 2: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>Social Media, Democratic Change and Political Participation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>Topic 3: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>Social transformations in the Arab World and the role of the elite:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>disaggregating and emerging elites<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>Topic 4: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>New media and communication practices: Violations against ethics and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>privacy of individuals<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>Topic 5:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'> Professionals’ experiences in the field of new media: towards an Arab Code<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>of Digital Media Ethics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Schedule of the International Scientific Conference:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>May 15, 2014</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>: Deadline for the submission of scientific contributions to the international conference (a 500 word abstract describing the Topic, the Issue, and a preliminary bibliography)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>The abstract must be sent by email as a word document and a PDF-Document to the International Conference’s Secretariat. All submissions will be anonymously peer-reviewed according to the criteria of originality, relevance, theoretical foundation, appropriateness of the methods used, clarity of language, and reference to the conference theme.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>June 15, 2014</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>: Decision of the Scientific Committee about selected abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>June 30, 2014</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>: Participation confirmation from selected applicants<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>August 25, 2014</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>: Final versions of the scientific presentations sent to the Scientific Committee as a word document for publication on time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>October 16-18, 2014</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>: International Scientific Conference on “Social media in a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;background:white'>changing media environment: Lessons from the Arab world”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>For selected Arab presenters a limited amount of funding will be available through the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) covering travel and accommodation. Please indicate on the title page whether you apply for funding.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Scientific Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Administration: Ms. Elhem Jouini</span><span lang=FR style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Press and Information Sciences Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Manouba University Campus – 2010 – Manouba, Tunisia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Phone numbers: (+216) 71 600 980 – (+216) 600 981 – (+216) 71 600 831<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Fax number: (+216) 71 600 465<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Email: </span><a href="mailto:tunisiaconference@gmail.com"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;background:white'>tunisiaconference@gmail.com</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Websites: </span><a href="http://www.ipsi.rnu.tn"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;background:white'>www.ipsi.rnu.tn</span></a><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext;background:white;text-decoration:none'> & </span></span><a href="http://www.areacore.org"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;background:white'>www.areacore.org</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Conference Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Moez Ben Messaoud </span><a href="mailto:bms.moez@yahoo.fr"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;background:white'>bms.moez@yahoo.fr</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>