Greetings from the University of the Philippines.

We would like to invite the students of your School to participate in our annual Asian Journalism (Student) Research Conference (AJRC) 2017, slated for April 24-25 (Monday and Tuesday).

Unlike most conferences, the AJRC is geared towards Journalism and Mass media students. It aims to foster research in Journalism Studies, and the development of Investigative Journalism among mass communication students in the ASEAN.

Our Call for Papers and abstract submission forms can be found at the AJRC conference website: <upajrc2017.wixsite.com/conference/>.

Because the target participants are strictly undergraduate and masters students only, the early bird conference fees is only USD35. Moreover, faculty members accompanying at least five undergraduate students will not be charged any conference fee.

Abstracts are due on March 1. Many thanks and looking forward to your university’s participation in April. For more information and clarifications, please do not hesitate to email the Secretariat at
<up.ajrc2017@gmail.com>.

Call for Papers

There will be two types of presentation in this conference:

1. For oral presentation only
2. For oral presentation and paper competition

Deadline for abstracts is on March 1, 2017

The conference aims to provoke academic and professional conversations regarding (but not limited to):

• The role of Journalism in the 21st century
• Journalists views on journalism
• Impact of Media Ownership on the News
• Journalism Safety
• Citizen expectations and perspectives on journalism
• Advocacy vis-à-vis Journalism
• Information versus propaganda
• News values versus value-laden news
• Millenials as news prosumers
• Traditional legacies versus commercialization
• Relevance of Media ethics
• Who is a journalist?

MECHANICS

For oral presentation only
Open to undergraduate and masteral students in any Asian university. Students should submit an abstract on or before for oral presentation in the following categories:

1. Academic research (AR) – Thesis or full research papers on journalism studies;
2. Investigative report (IR) – Investigative reports written or produced for print, broadcast or online media;
3. Special project (SP) – In-depth features or analysis in text, audio, photo, video or multimedia

Please see attached submission AJRC.

For oral presentation and paper competition
Open to Philippine undergraduate students only. As in the past years of the Philippine Journalism Research Conferences (PJRC), three student awards will be given for best academic research, best investigative report and best special project.

Apart from the above mentioned awards, there will be a special citation for investigative and/or feature stories (under special projects) for the following sub-themes in 2017:

1. Best IR on Road Safety
2. Best IR or Special Project on Science Journalism

Abstracts should be submitted to <up.ajrc2017@gmail.com> on or before March 1, 2017.

Please indicate in the email subject line “AJRC 2017 abstract”

For those who submit abstracts on or before February 15, the Screening committee will give you feedback by March 6. Those who will submit between February 16 to March 1 will be given feedback by March 15.

Abstracts submissions should be 500-750 words. Please include name/s of author/s, year level, course and school, contact email and mobile numbers.

Assoc. Prof. Rachel E. Khan
University of the Philippines
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