GRANTS ANNOUNCED

BERSAY ACADEMY AND UNICEF TURKEY GRANTS ANNOUNCED

Bersay Academy offers six travel grants in the amount of 500 Euros to six PhD students residing in low-income countries with an abstract already accepted for presentation at the conference.

Bersay Academy Grants Have Been Awarded To:

Alise Tifentale (Latvia)

Photographers Breaking the Iron Curtain: Role of Informal International Communication Networks in Soviet Photography

- History Section Working Group

Amna Ashraf (Pakistan)

Comic Journalism Art of Pakistan Covering Karry Lugar Bill 2009

- Comic Art Working Group

Agenda Setting and Framing of Elections during Musharraf Period in Pakistani Print Media (1999-2008)

- Political Communication Research Section

Fernanda Capibaribe Leite (Brazil)

Empowering Scenes: The Communication as a Strategic Area to Women’s Autonomy through Audiovisual Narratives

- Gender and Communication Section

Eliete Pereira (Brazil)

Native Digital Media: The Digitization of Local Cultures to Netativism

- Media Religion and Culture Working Group

Nitida Sangsingkeo (Thailand)

Inside the Constructions of Mental Health: Media and the Everyday Life of Women in Thailand

- Audience Section

Marino Dagatti (Argentina)

Inmediación. Comunicación Política y arte de Gobierno durante los Inicios de la Gestión Kirchnerista en la República Argentina

- Political Communication Research Section

UNICEF Turkey offers registration grants in the amount of 150 Euros to five MA/PhD students with Turkish citizenship and an abstract already accepted for presentation at the conference.

Unicef Turkey Grants Have Been Awarded To:

Ergin Bulut (Turkey)

Politics of Video Game Labor: Precarity and Commodification of Information in the New Economy

- Political Economy Section

Raising Awareness through Philitainment: Solve Hunger, Eradicate Malaria and Have Fun

- Visual Culture Working Group

Sevda Ünal (Turkey)

Internet Governance: Actors, Issues and Differences

- Communication Policy and Technology Section

Güneş Acar (Turkey)

Privacy and Security Issues in Turkey’s e-Government Project as a Matter of Public Policy Making Process

- Communication Policy and Technology Section

Gamze Onut (Turkey)

Islam, Media and September 11

- Mediated Communication, Public Opinion and Society Section

Özlem Bayraktar (Turkey)

Gypsies: “The People of Another World”

- Mediated Communication, Public Opinion and Society Section