Four faculty members, eight graduate students and six alumni will represent the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong in the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) annual conference in Dublin, 25-29 June 2013.
Twelve faculty members, eight graduate students and three alumni represented the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong in the International Communciation Association’s (ICA) 63rd annual conference in London June 17-21, 2013. They have presented a total of 23 authored or co-authored papers and chaired three panel discussion sessions.The paper “Credibility in Crisis: Agenda Building and Crisis Communicative Strategy at a Chinese NGO” co-authored by PhD student Alice CHENG Yang, Prof. Christine HUANG, and MSSc graduate CHAN Ching Man AND the paper “An Investigation of Infant Milk Powder Product Safety Crisis Management in Mainland China: Crisis Communicative Strategies, Organization Ownership Type, Confidence in Organization and Media Image” authored by MPhil graduate Echo Huang Peiyi both won theBest Student Paper Award in the Public Relations Division. The paper “New Forms of Transborder Visuality in Urban China: Saving Face for Magazine Covers” by Prof. Eric Ma was awarded as the Top Faculty Paper in the Visual Communication Division.A reception was also held in Hilton London Metropole Hotel on June 18, 2013. The event was well attended by more than a hundred alumni and overseas scholars in communication.
The international conference “New Directions in the Development of Creative and Media Industries” will be held in Hong Kong on June 7-8, 2013. This event is not only a platform for scholars’ discussion on the past, present, and future of the creative and media industries but also one of the programs for celebrating the 50th Golden Jubilee of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.Among all creative industries, games are one of the mainstream entertainment form consumed by people from different age groups. Games have been integrated into the daily lives of citizens as mainstream form of digital entertainment, a site of education, and even as a profession through different communication technological devices. Despite games’ popularity and social significance, games were misconceived as marginal and frivolous. In the present, games are in fact one of the few most dominant entertainment forms in developed economies, one of the most lucrative creative industries, and the most profitable IT application. Investigation of the development of game industries and markets in different countries are therefore useful for HK. HK’s game industries urgently need the help of cultural policies, business models, regulation, and industry norms to propel them into the Chinese and Asian markets. In view of the urgent need for relevant information and policies, this conference aims to conduct a comprehensive study of the game industries in HK with an international comparative perspective.Apart from helping to achieving practical economic goals, this conference will make an important theoretical contribution to the fields of media studies, globalization studies, and game studies. In this conference the data and findings in games studies, creative and media industries fields will be shared among scholars. We will focus on comparative analyses of the cultural policies, regulations, creative clustering, industrial development strategies, consumption practices, and game markets of the countries that have collected data on. This conference will be significant not merely for the game industries but also for Hong Kong’s other creative and media industries like films, pop music, design, fashion, and advertising that are facing keen competition from Asian competitors.This will be a 2-day event that consists of 8 sessions including a round-table session, which will draw leading academics from around the world.
One faculty member and three graduate students represented the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong in the National Communication Association (NCA) 98th Annual Convention in Orlando, November 15-18, 2012.
One faculty member and nine graduate students represented the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) annual conference in Chicago, August 9-12, 2012.