Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication (MCU), Bhopal and Asian Media information & Communication Centre (AMIC) are organising a two-days International Seminar.
The seminar will be inaugurated at the University campus on Saturday at 10:30 am in the Conference Hall on the fifth floor.
The chief guest of inaugural session is Binod C Agrawal, Country Head of AMIC and keynote speaker is Vijay Sehgal, Ex-Editor Dainik Tribune, Chandigarh.
The focus of the seminar will be to explore the new forms of Public discourses that are emerging as a result of New Media.
In the seminar, there will be five technical sessions being conducted on various related arenas, in which national and international delegates, experts from academics and research scholars will present their ideas and papers.
The University Vice-Chancellor Prof BK Kuthiala mentioned that seminar will focus and talk mainly on Public Discourse through New Media and the impact on its users. The question today to be raised is how specific features of Public Discourse in Social Media influence political discussion, participation and democratic valuesIJ
Through the seminar, experts and authors will be encouraged to examine the dynamics of interaction in online communities and how the participants of there online sites experience, propagate and influence others to resolve conflictsIJ
How the dynamics of online interaction support or deter participation in media mediated political discussion. All of the above topics shall be discussed during the seminar.
A quarterly house journal 'MCU News', its first issue will also be inaugurated, which is designed to encourage better communication with the University study centres.
Faculties of all the campuses, national-international academicians, and research scholars and media
representatives will be present in the seminar. The seminar will be conducted on Sunday at 2:30 pm.