Sacomm 2024

The Politics of the Present Critical Communications Research Here and Now SACOMM 2024 Conference  Tuesday 10th – Thursday 12th September 2024  Stellenbosch University  Conferences are frequently organised around temporal themes of looking back through history, or projecting into the future. For this conference we invite a specific focus on the politics of the present, and practices of …

Extended: Indication of Interest Group Involvement in 2020

Dear SACOMM Community, As indicated in a previous email, our annual conference will not go ahead as planned this year, due to the COVID-19 virus and restrictions around it. We do want to make sure, however, that we stay connected within the greater SACOMM community, and especially in our smaller interest groups. Part of that …

SACOMM2020 conference update and forecast

Dear SACOMM Members and Associates Flowing forth from the national state of disaster issued around the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the SACOMM Executive Committee and the 2020 Local Organising Committee at the University of Limpopo would like to update you on our conference which is set to take place later this year. The outbreak remains …

Keynote Address: Sean Jacobs

Sean Jacobs is founder and editor of Africa is a Country, a site ofcriticism, analysis and new writing. He is also associate professor ofinternational affairs at The New School. He is a Ford Foundation#AfricaNoFilter Fellow and author of ‘Media in Postapartheid SouthAfrica: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization’ (IndianaUniversity Press, 2019) SACOMM 2019 – …

SACOMM 2019: Registration now Open

We look forward to seeing you at SACOMM2019! Thank you to everyone who submitted abstracts. You should have received a notification via email if you have submitted a suggestion for a panel or an abstract. If you haven’t received word from the Conference Organisers, please email sacomm2019@gmail.com. Registration Deadline is 26 July, 2019. Conference DetailsRegistration …

CFP – SACOMM 2019: August 28-30, University of Cape Town

Inside | Outside CALL FOR PAPERS Current communication debates are increasingly dominated by polarities and conflicts. On closer inspection, these polarities are not always defined by antagonism or opposing ideologies, but are also informed by power imbalances in terms of race, class and gender, technological access, education, age, geospatial factors, and mobility. This year’s theme …