CALL FOR PAPERS:

Conference on
“Convergence and Society:
The Participatory Web (3.0)”

Media convergence has been accompanied by an increase in opportunities for interactivity, including blogs, user-generated content, citizen journalism, social networking, and a host of applications referred to collectively as Web 2.0This conference provides a forum for the presentation of essays, research, and technology related to these interactive tools, as well as research and presentations regarding the practice and teaching of convergent journalism.
Abstracts, completed papers, and panel proposals for this conference should deal with the primary conference themes or related issues.

Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit in one or more of three categories:

1. Completed papers
2. Proposals or abstracts of papers in progress
3. Proposals for panels

Submissions may address practical, theoretical, phenomenological, critical and/or empirical approaches to any of the subjects listed above. All submissions will be reviewed by a jury that will consider: 1) relevance to the conference theme, 2) the quality of the contribution, and 3) overall contribution to the field.

The conference is sponsored by the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies at the University of South Carolina, and Newsplex, an advanced micro-newsroom training and research facility dedicated to news presentation techniques emerging from the convergence of print, broadcast and online media. Newsplex is a joint project of the College and Ifra. The conference will take place in historic Columbia, SC, located midway between the Atlantic beaches and the foothills of the Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountains.

Papers, proposals, abstracts, and panel proposals should be addressed to:

Augie Grant, Conference Chair
Conference
College of Mass Communications and Information Studies
Carolina Coliseum
Columbia, SC 29208
e-mail: augie@sc.edu

Submission guidelines:

• Electronic submissions (Word or RTF attachments) are preferred (send to augie@sc.edu).
• A separate "cover page" file should be included with the title of the paper or panel and authors’ names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses.
• Submission deadline (postmark) is June 15, 2008. All submissions will be jury-reviewed with notification to authors and organizers on or before July 31, 2008.