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The Department of Mass Communication, University of Kelaniya, was proud to host the 8^th ACMC International Research Conference from 27^th to 29^th October 2022. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Mediated Realities: Challenges and Opportunities’ which address the profound changes that occurred in media and communication during the pandemic and post-pandemic periods in fields such as mass media, public relations, advertising, new media, health communication, education, culture, and diversity.

It was held as a hybrid conference. The opening ceremony was held in hybrid mode on 27th October 2022 at the Social Sciences Faculty Auditorium, University of Kelaniya.

There were two keynote speeches delivered by Emeritus Professor Sunanda Mahendra from the Department of Mass Communication and Dr. Elena E. Pernia, who joined virtually, from the University of the Philippines. While Professor M. M. Gunathilake, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences, welcomed the invitees, Dr. Azman Azwan Azmawathi, President of ACMC delivered the opening remarks. Senior Professor Nilanthi de Silva, Vice Chancellor of University of Kelaniya, the Chief Guest of the event, graced the occasion with her insightful opening address. The opening ceremony came to an end with the thanking keynotes delivered by Senior Lecturer Wijayananda Rupasinghe, Head of the Department of Mass Communication.

Fifty-seven research papers were present in this three-day conference with eighty-five scholars from Sri Lanka, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The closing ceremony held in virtually on 29 ^th October 2022 with the participation of research paper presenters, members of ACMC, academic staff of the Department of Mass Communication and Faculty of Social Sciences of University of Kelaniya.

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Launching the first online issue of Sanniwedakaya magazine (The Communicator), published by the Department of  Mass Communication, Kelaniya University, took place on 27.09.2022. Sanniwedakaya Magazine Started as a printed version in the year 1997, and several issues have been published under specific themes. The first online issue was published on the theme of Protest communication.

The launch was held via Zoom and Dr. Ariyaratne Athugala and Prof. Dr. Thilakaratne, the founding editors of the magazine, participated in the event. Also, Mr. C. Dodawatta, the former convener of the Free Media Movement, and Mr. Umair Wolid, the President of the Sri Lanka Digital Marketers Association, also participated as guests. Sen. Lec. Wijayananda Rupasinghe, the current editor-in-chief of the magazine, moderated the event.

කැලණිය  විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ ජනසන්නිවේදන අධ්‍යයන අංශය මඟින් ප්‍රකාශිත සන්නිවේදකයා සඟරාවේ පළමු ඔන්ලයින් කලාපය එළි දැක්වීම 2022.09.27 දින සිදු විය. 1997 වර්ෂයේ මුද්‍රිත සඟරාවක් වශයෙන් ආරම්භ කළ සන්නිවේදකයා මාධ්‍ය ත්‍රෛමාසිකයේ විශේෂ කලාප කිහිපයක් ම වරින්වර පළ වී ඇත. මෙවර කලාපය අරගල සන්නිවේදනයේ මාධ්‍ය භාවිතය යන තේමාවෙන් පළ විය.

ඉකුත් දා පැවැති පළමු ඔන්ලයින් කලාපය එළි දැක්වීම සහ සාකච්ඡාව Zoom ඔස්සේ පැවැත්වුණු අතර සාකච්ඡාවට සඟරාවේ ආරම්භ සංස්කාරකවරු වන ආචාර්ය ආරියරත්න ඇතුගල, ආචාර්ය මාපා තිලකරත්න යන මහතුන් සහභාගී වූහ. එමෙන් ම නිදහස් මාධ්‍ය ව්‍යාපාරයේ හිටපු කැඳවුම්කරු සී දොඩාවත්ත මහතා සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඩිජිටල් අලෙවිකරුවන්ගේ සංගමයේ සභාපති උමයිර් වොලිඩ් මහතා ද ආරාධිතයන් ලෙස සහභාගි වූහ. සඟරාව එළිදැක්වීම සහ සාකච්ඡාව සඟරාවේ වත්මන් ප්‍රධාන සංස්කාරක, ජනසන්නිවේදන අධ්‍යයන අංශයේ අංශාධිපති විජයානන්ද රූපසිංහ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් පැවැත්විණි.

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