“Development and Resilience in Communication” Friday OCTOBER 23 Sunday OCTOBER 25 Register Now: $75 Early Bird $100 Regular Bolton Hall, Texas A&M University campus, College Station, Texas The Global Fusion conference consortium seeks to promote and sustain excellence in international communication and global media research. Our institutional members are Ohio University, Southern Illinois University, Temple University, Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Virginia. Invited speakers: Thomas Tufte (Roskilde University, Denmark) and Drew McDaniel (Ohio University) Call for Papers: The theme for the sixteenth annual Global Fusion conference is “Development and resilience in communication.” We invite global media and international communication researchers to submit abstracts contributing to this conference theme. We are particularly interested in proposals that address new approaches to development and transformation as well as discussions on how sustainable, community based and cooperative initiatives are appropriating new technologies effectively. Also of interest are research on marginalized or under-resourced groups’ use of media and technology, including refugee, migrant, and indigenous populations’ appropriation of communication technologies for empowerment of activism. Abstracts no longer than 500 words should be submitted through the open conference system (globalfusionocs-tamu.tdl.org) before August 15, 2015. For more information please visit: http://globalfusion-ocs-tamu.tdl.org Questions and concerns, please email: [email protected] Global Fusion 2015 is cosponsored by Media Rise