2023 – 2024
 

Workshop
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The Seventeenth Chinese University Communication Visiting Scholar Workshop: Platformization in Chinese Societies: Governance, Labor, and Futures
Date: 26 – 27 Jan 2024
Venue: C-Centre Room 312, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Details: Platforms refer to an emerging type of firm which positions itself as a digital intermediary that coordinates interactions between different user groups and relies upon data extraction to gain economic and political power. Platforms have emerged as key players in reconfiguring media and cultural production, transforming the labor process, and contesting regulatory frameworks and institutions. A growing body of literature—including a special issue about the platformization of Chinese society published by the Chinese Journal of Communication (2019)—has problematized the uniformity of platformization across the globe by attending to differences in affordances, governance approaches, and political economies of platforms. Accordingly, the ways that platforms evolve, govern different user groups, shape the labor process, and challenge political governance are deeply embedded in a specific institutional context.
   
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Seminars and Symposium
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Creators for Change: Social Brokerage in the Impact Ecology
Date: 9 May 2024
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. David Craig, Associate Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of South California
 
Mediated Emotion and Social Change: Developing a Typology
Date: 26 April 2024
Time: 10:00am-11:30am
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, University Dean of Research Environment of Culture Cardiff University
 
Sustaining Crisis Readiness through Relational Risk Communication
Date: 21 March 2024
Time: 10:00am-11:30am
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Brooke Fisher Liu, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Maryland
 
The Fifth Estate: The Power Shift of the Digital Age
Date: 15 March 2024
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. William H. Dutton, Senior Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
 
Book Launch: Affective Spaces: An Archive of Feelings
Date: 23 February 2024
Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm
Venue: Room 313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Shih-Diing Liu, Professor of Communication, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Macau
 
Greater China Visiting Scholar Symposium
Date: 25 January 2024
Time: 9:00am-4:15pm
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker:

Prof. Dai Jia, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University

Prof. Jian Miao-ju, The Department of Communication, National Chung Cheng University

Prof. Lin Jhih-Syuan, College of Communication, National Chengchu University

Prof. Pan Ji, School of Journalism, Fudan University

Prof. Wang Shao-jung, Institute of Marketing Communication, National Sun Yat-sen University

Prof. Zhou Yuqiong, School of Media and Communication, Shenzhen University
 
Digital Migration: Interdisciplinary, Ontological, Epistemological, Methodological and Ethical Considerations
Date: 16 January 2024
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Koen Leurs, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
 
Facebook’s Faces
Date: 12 January 2024
Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Dr. Chinmayi Arun, Executive Director, The Information Society Project, Yale Law School, U.S.A.
 
Book Launch: Journalism in the Jianghu: Contemporary News as A “Post-public” Institution
Date: 24 November 2023
Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn
Venue: Room 313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Emily Chua, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore
 
Open Data and Its Implications for Journalism: China, the UK, and Beyond
Date: 17 November 2023
Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Venue: Zoom Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Jingrong Tong, Senior Lecturer in Digital News Cultures, Department of Journalism Studies University of Sheffield, the UK
Difficult Family Conversations: Talking with Reluctant Family Members about Getting Vaccinated for COVID-19
Date: 3 November 2023
Time: 9:30am – 10:30am
Venue: Zoom Seminar
Speaker: Prof. Steven. R. Wilson, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Communication, University of South Florida, USA
Agile Integrated Communication – How Companies Are Restructuring Corporate Communication
Date: 27 October 2023
Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn
Venue: Room 313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Sabine Einwiller, Professor of Public Relations Research, Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria
 
How Computer Simulations Cause Strange Epistemological Shifts in Science and Society – A Case Study in Quantum Physics
Date: 29 September 2023
Time: 10:30am – 12:00nn
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Martin Warnke, Guest Scientist, Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
 
Book Launch: Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression
Date: 22 September 2023
Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm
Venue: Room 312, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Saskia Witteborn, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK