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Events
Global Communication, Local Perspectives Conference
Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, December 10-12.
Co-organized by the China Association of Communication (CAC) and the Chinese Communication Association (CCA) and co-sponsored by the Radio and Television Research Center at the Communication University of China in Beijing, this is the first time CAC has held its annual conference outside mainland China. The sessions of the conference will mainly focus on 1) Political economy of global communication; 2) Mass media and social transformation; 3) Media policy and regulation; 4) Chinese culture and communication history; 5) New media and social development; 6) Journalism practices in the age of media convergence; 7) Advertising and public relations in the context of globalization; 8) Development of journalism and communication education; 9) Round table on communication research. For more information contact Mrs. Leung Phoebe, Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, email: psmleung@cityu.edu.hk
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Call for papers - “The Asian Games: Asia Ascendant, Media Images, Political Statement, Cultural Assertion, Social Symbol”.
Title and Abstract: for contacting now.
Full paper: ca. 8000 words by July 31, 2011.
Publication intended in Autumn 2011.
This International Journal of the History of Sport’s call for papers is organized by the International Communication Studies Center of the Communication University of China, Beijing. After the Olympics, there will be another mega sport event in China: the Asian Games, which will take place in Guangzhou from November 12 to 27 this year. What are the challenges and opportunities of hosting mega sport events in China? What are the implications for China as host of the Asian Games? What are the prospects for the media from covering and commenting Beijing 2008 and Guangzhou 2010? In addition to addressing these questions, interested scholars are invited to provide considerations of how the world media outside Asia view the Games: sport, soft power politics or both? Discussions will also be appreciated on the Games as a statement of political intention, an assertion of regional confidence and an expression of regional identity. For more information contact Prof. Qing Luo: eileen_luo@126.com, luoqingcuc@gmail.com.
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The 8th Chinese Internet Research Conference “Internet and Modernity
with Chinese Characteristics: Institutions, Cultures and Social Formations”
29-30 June 2010, School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University, Beijing, China.
By June 30 2009 the number of netizens in China had reached 338 million, more than the total population of the United States. Already the country with the largest number of Internet users, China now boasts 2.1 million websites and more than 100 million blogs. The rapidly changing landscape of Internet usage in China has seen both quantitative and qualitative developments. In fact, the vision and thrill of getting online parallel China’s ambition to build a modern society with Chinese characteristics. Internet has penetrated social institutions, political processes, cultural activities and people’s everyday life. This conference aims to explore the following questions: How do global influences and local initiatives meet, interact and converge through and around the Internet? Is Internet the agent of globalization and homogeneity or that of local independence and particularity? With increasing capitalization and commercialization of the Internet in China, what is the dynamic relationship between state, market and civil society? What creative uses of the Internet are made by Chinese netizens? Does the Internet serve as an alternative media that meets new challenges of a society in transformation? What different relationships exist between the Internet and the so-called traditional media? The forms and contradictions in which China tries to conceptualize and materialize modernity, and how the Internet is contributing to this process are the main focus of this conference. Specific topics include but are not limited to: Mediation between global and local, The political economy of the Internet and the information industry in China, Internet as an alternative media, Social relations on the Internet.
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Workshop "Where Africa, China and the West meet: towards new frameworks for media development"
10-11 June 2010, University of Oxford, UK.
Organized by the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University and by the Stanhope Centre for Communication Policy Research with the support of the Economic and Social Research Council, the workshop aims to reflect on China’s increasing influence on the media in Africa and on the implications this has for traditional approaches to media assistance and media development on the continent and beyond. For more details please contact Iginio Gagliardone: i.gagliardone@lse.ac.uk.
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China’s Soft Power Conference
8-9 April 2010, China Media Centre, University of Westminster, London, UK.
The dramatic economic growth in China has led to renewed international influence. Historically, economic power has always been accompanied by increasing international cultural influence – soccer and Hollywood are just some of the things bequeathed by other big economies to the rest of the world. It is certain that China’s economic stature will also be reflected in the diffusion of Chinese culture. This reality is already recognized by many inside and outside China. The Chinese government has a “going out” strategy, aiming to make the Chinese language, Chinese culture, and the Chinese media more visible internationally. At the same time, broadcasters who were once content to buy programs and copy western models are today planning to enter the international market place as sellers of their own products. Issues addressed in the conference include: 1) Official efforts to promote Chinese language and culture abroad; 2) China’s international news media; 3) The international strategies of China’s media companies; 4) What are the competitive advantages of Chinese culture in the international market? 5) Is “authentic” Chinese culture under threat from the drive to sell products internationally? 6) International reaction to the spread of Chinese culture; 7) The historical experience of the international influence of Chinese culture; 8) Future prospects for Chinese media and culture on the world stage. For more information, please visit:
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/schools/media/news-and-events/events/2010/chinas-soft-power
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Seminar course "Media in China"
2 March, 2010 - 30 March, 2010
Tuesday and Thursday, 17:30, Room A12, University of Lugano.
Prof. Qing Luo, Communication University of China, Beijing, China.
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