[Air-l] CFP China and the Internet conference

[Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof)]

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
> 
> CHINA AND THE INTERNET
> Technology, Economy, and Society in Transition
> 
> During the past decade, the Internet community in
> China has grown exponentially. What was once foreign
> to the Beijing literati has now become home to 46
> million Chinese. While worldwide Internet development
> has slowed down due to the dot-com clash, the Internet
> community in China continues to expand.
> 
> To explore this interesting phenomenon, the conference
> brings together scholars, researchers, policy
> analysts, industry leaders, journalists, and legal
> practitioners around the world. Among the issues
> addressed are: Why can China sustain the Internet boom
> despite the current adverse conditions? What is the
> social, economic, and cultural impact of the Internet
> on China? What roles do government authorities,
> information technology firms, individual users, and
> foreign businesses play in shaping the new technology
> in China? How can China develop its information
> society under a socialist market economy?
> 
> The conference will be held at the University of
> Southern California in Los Angeles on May 30-31, 2003.
> It will be jointly sponsored by the Annenberg School
> for Communication at the University of Southern
> California, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at
> Yeshiva University, Programme in Comparative Media Law
> and Policy at the University of Oxford, and the School
> of Journalism and Communication at Peking University.
> 
> Papers presented at the conference will be selected
> for publication in a journal or as a conference volume
> (or both). We welcome submissions from all
> disciplines. Partial or full travel grants will be
> available to graduate students and international
> attendants whose papers have been accepted for
> presentation.
> 
> If you are interested in submitting a proposal for
> presentations or panels on any of the following
> topics:
> 
> - China's Internet policy and regulation
> - usage patterns and social change
> - regional network developments
> - China's e-government initiatives
> - e-commerce and the Internet market
> - online journalism in China
> - network security
> - discourse of online citizen
> 
> or if you have any further questions or suggestions
> about the conference, please contact Prof. Peter Yu at
> the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
> peter_yu at msn.com or Jack Qiu at the Annenberg School
> for Communication (lqiu at usc.edu).
> 
> All proposals will be peer reviewed and should consist
> of at least 2 pages of single-lined text. To
> facilitate the process, authorship and contact
> information should be included on a separate sheet.
> The deadline for submission is December 15, 2002.