[Air-l] [chineseinternetresearch] China Internet Conference: May 30-31, 2003, Los Angeles (fwd)

[Lokman Tsui]

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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.

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