Our Media, Not Theirs is a one day pre-conference event to be held in Barcelona on Saturday, July 20 2002, as part of the IAMCR 2002. The session is supported by the Community Communication Section of IAMCR, the Faculty of Communication of the University Ramon Llull, the Institut de la Comunicació (InCom-UAB), and the Ford Foundation.

The event will take place at University Ramon Llull, hosted by the Faculty of Communication.

The pre-conference is planned as a follow-up to the successful pre-conference entitled Our Media, Not Theirs held at the annual ICA conference in Washington DC in May 2001, organized by John Downing and Clemencia Rodriguez.

The event will involve alternative media practitioners and researchers from all over the world. The day will have four panels, each with 4-5 speakers. 

- Rosa Maria Alfaro, CALANDRIA, Peru
- Jordi Busquet and Josep Sort, University Ramon Llull, Spain
- John Downing, University of Texas, USA
- Susana Kaiser, University of San Francisco, USA
- Michael Meadows, Griffith University, Australia
- Pepi Rafael, Carme Mayugo, TV Clot, Barcelona, Spain
- Paul O’Connor, Editor of Undercurrents video magazine, UK
- Ashish Sen, Director, VOICES, India
- Fernando Lopez, World Association of Community Broadcasters-AMARC-Ecuador

The session will involve presentations on current developments as well as discussions on building an effective global network for people involve in alternative media and ways of improving exchange of information.

The discussions will be based on circulated papers, which will be available in advance to maximize the time for discussion.

- Indigenous media around  the world
- New narratives, new genres, new formats
- Alternative media and globalization from below

Full details of the participant list and programme will be posted on this site. Copies of the papers to be presented will be posted on this site in mid June 2002, so that you may access them in advance of the conference.

We expect the event to be popular. It is therefore essential  to pre-register early. The deadline for registration is June 15 2002.  For registration please contact Tamar Ashuri, London School of Economics,  t.ashuri@lse.ac.uk

We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona.