Acting Provost Professor C. H. Chan praised the conference of the Asia-Pacific Internet Research Alliance (APIRA) as “significant to the CityU’s goal to strive for a dialogue between science and humanities.” The conference was held on 6-7 August 2009. Entitled “Opportunities and Challenges for the Internet in the Post-Financial Tsunami Era,” the conference was organized
The Center for Communication Research (CCR), in collaboration with the Department of Media and Communication, will host the second conference on modern Chinese press from 4-5 December 2009. It will focus on the concept and practice of press freedom in modern China. This is a sequel to the conference held in April 2007, which
Four young communication scholars, including three from China and one from Taiwan, arrived on 9 February as part of the Department's highly prestigious Young Scholars from the Mainland Program, which is now in its fifth year. The three mainland scholars include Lei Weizhen (Renmin University), Liu Yunfeng (Nankai University) and Xiao Qing (Yunnan Normal University),
The globalization team of the Center for Communication Research presented a panel, “Media role in the local-national-global nexus: comparing Chinese societies,” at the annual conference of the International Association for Media Communication Research, held in Stockholm, Sweden from 20 to 25 July 2008. This is a part of continuing analysis of a large-scale survey study
Francis L. F. Lee This article examines media effects on Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong people's attitudes towards globalization. In the case of China, it is argued that the Chinese national media largely reflect the official view on globalization, which is largely positive in tone, focuses more on its benefits than its dangers, and sees
