关注 | Communication and the Public - 2023 ICA Pre-conference

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is our pleasure, on behalf of Communication and the Public, to invite you to attend Digital Communication in Global China: Creativity, Authenticity and Sustainability, a preconference associated with the 73rd Annual ICA Conference, on May 24, 2023 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM in the Rainy Lake Room, 11th floor, Waterpark Place, 20 Bay St., Toronto, Canada.

This pre-conference will provide an interdisciplinary platform for exchanging and testing pioneering ideas, concepts, theories, and paradigms in Chinese media and communication studies regarding the digital society, a topical area that can both benefit from and add to the development of the discipline in general. 

ICA Preconference

Digital Communication in Global China：

 Creativity, Authenticity and Sustainability

9:00am

Opening Remarks

· Lu Wei, Zhejiang University

Moderator

· Hong Yu, Zhejiang University

9:15am-9:55am

Keynote Speech

· Yi-Hui Christine Huang, City University of Hong Kong

· Junhao Hong, The State University of New York at Buffalo

9:55am-10:55am

Panel One Chinese Platforms, Social Media and User Practices

Moderator

· Lin Fen, City University of Hong Kong

· Tianting Zhang, University of Missouri – Columbia

“Resilience and Precarity: Connective Actions and Affective Labors in Feminist Blogging”

· Xiaofei Han, Carleton University

“Taobao/Livestream Village Model? : “Platform Capitalism” Revisited through a Non-linear Lens”

· Han Fu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

· Anthony Fung, Chinese University of Hong Kong

“The harder I work, the luckier I get: How rural streamers perceive and deal with the algorithmic gaze on Taobao Live”

10:55am-11:30am

Panel Two Digital Connectivity and Media Use  

Moderator

· Lin Fen, City University of Hong Kong

· Peter Lunt, University of Leicester

· Shuhan Chen, University of the Arts London

“Tradition and modernisation: digital connection and social relationships among Chinese youth”

11:30am-12:00am

Panel Three Journalism and Online Culture

Moderator

· Siyue Li, Zhejiang University

· Sibo Chen, Toronto Metropolitan University

“The political economy of environmental communication in, from, and about China”

12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch Break

1:00pm-2:00pm

Panel Four Venturing China’s Globalized Internet

Moderator

· Hong Yu, Zhejiang University

· Min Tang, University of Washington Bothell

“Tencent: The Political Economy of China’s Surging Internet Giant”

· Shinjoung Yeo, City University of New York

“Baidu: Geopolitical Dynamics of the Internet in China”

· Hong Shen, Carnegie Mellon University

“Alibaba: Infrastructuring Global China”

2:00pm-3:20pm  

Panel Five Digital Governance

Moderator

· Siyue Li, Zhejiang University

· Xiaofen Ma, Renmin University of China

· Piper Liping Liu, University of Macau

· Lianshan Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

“Contact Tracing Technologies: Reciprocal Benefits of Information Management and Health Benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic in China”

· Yuchao Zhao, Zhejiang Lab（Han Fu on behalf, Chinese University of Hong Kong） 

“Platformization of grassroots governance in contemporary China: ‘Intelligent’ governmental platforms and street-level bureaucrats”

· Hongyu Wu, Zhejiang University

“A new type of connection between people and cities ---the ‘city brain’ as a code media and the public daily practic”

· Yu Zhao, Zhejiang University

“Understanding new technology adoption in convergent media organizations in China from individual and organizational perspectives: An extension of technology acceptance model”

· Yan Zhang, Zhejiang University

“Symbols, Ceremony, Hero or Values? Influencing Factors of the Intangible Cultural Heritage on Short Videos Communication”

3:20pm-3:30pm Coffee Break

3:30pm-4:30pm

Panel Six New Technologies and Communication Effects

Moderator

· Yu Zhao, Zhejiang University

· Nian Wang, Communication University of China

· Weihua Wu, Communication University of China

“Technological Advancement and Cultural Genealogy: A Study of the Local Paradigm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Journalism in China”

· Jing Cai, Communication University of China

“A Research on Social Media Rumors of China with a Perspective of Risk

 Construction Theory: based on the cases of 2020-2022 Covid-19 related rumors on JiaoZhen platform of Tencent”

· Xinzhou Xie, Peking University

· Haocheng Peng, Peking University

· Lin Shi, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

“Exploring Communication Effect Factors of ‘Health Code’ Short Videos”

4:30pm-4:40pm

CAP Outstanding Service Award Ceremony

Moderator

· Zhao Alexandre Huang, Université Paris Nanterre

4:40pm-5:00pm

Meeting Editors from Communication and the Public

Moderator

· Zhao Alexandre Huang, Université Paris Nanterre

· Hong Yu, Zhejiang University

· Zhao Alexandre Huang, Université Paris Nanterre

· Yi-Hui Christine Huang, City University of Hong Kong

· Lin Fen, City University of Hong Kong

Acknowledgements

This pre-conference is sponsored by the College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University; ICA Popular Media and Culture Division; Communication and the Public

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