[Air-L] Registration Open for "Digital Governance and Transcultural Communications "- An IAMCR 2022 pre-conference

Fri Jun 17 21:26:55 PDT 2022

IAMCR Pre-Conference Program

Digital Governance and Transcultural Communications

Organised by

School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University

IAMCR Public Service Media Policies Working Group

Contact emails

Yik Chan Chin, yik-chan.chin at bnu.edu.cn

Fiona Martin, fiona.martin at sydney.edu.au

Friday, 8 July 2022

| 08:00 - 17:30 Beijing time

| 11:00 - 20:30 Sydney time

| 00:00 - 09:30 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

| 20:00 (Thurs)- 05:30 (Friday) US Eastern Daylight Time

Language: English and Chinese (simultaneous interpretations provided)     

Platform: ZOOM

Conference Website: https://iamcr.org/beijing2022/digital-governance

Registration: Please register your participation via the link: https://www.wjx.top/vj/Otbqm5E.aspx

or email your name, email and institution to Dr. Rui Wang  wrui at bnu.edu.cnfor registration

Sponsor:

BNU Internet Institute

Theme

Governance of digital and internet technologies involves a complex series of actions carried out in cross-territorial space by multiple stakeholders, transversing huge cultural, political, economic, and social differences. Alongside international internet governance bodies such as ICANN, new models for governance of digital communications platforms have emerged in recent years including the European Commission’s Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech and the Facebook Oversight Board. However, at the moment, there is an absence of a single international standard-setting body for digital communications or a unified framework for governing digital public goods. Competition and contests over issues like privacy, data colonialism, cybersecurity, and access to internet infrastructure have exacerbated trade, economic and political tensions, and have also significantly affected transborder and transcultural communication flows. 

This one-day hybrid preconference aims to explore policy and governance strategies emerging from the development and use of digital communications technologies and their impacts on transcultural communications, with a focus on the themes of neo-globalization, digitalisation, and platformisation.

It seeks to address some fundamental questions that may help in strengthening digital governance approaches and facilitating safe, productive, and inclusive transcultural communications:

What are the critical contests around digital governance of transnational and transcultural communications platforms? How do they exemplify differences in values and ethics between key stakeholders?
 What are the crucial components of digital governance strategies, and how are these evolving in light of platformisation?
  How can existing institutional, and largely national, models of communications governance adapt to this new context? To what extent are new, international models of governance addressing transcultural communications?
  What are the best practice examples of new digital governance modalities working in the public interest? How might these benefit public institutions, such as public service media

Schedule of the conference

8:15-8:30 am (Beijing time); 00:15- 00:30 am (UTC)

Opening

Hosts of IAMCR 2022 Conference

Professor Hongzhong Zhang, Dean, School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University

Prof. Fiona Martin & Prof. Anis Rahman, Co-Chairs, IAMCR Public Service Media Policies Working Group

8:30-9:00 am (Beijing time); 00:30 – 01:00 am (UTC)

Keynote Speech

Professor Ang Peng Hwa

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

9:00 am - 10:50 am (Beijing Time); 01:00 – 02:50 am (UTC)

Panel 1: Governance strategies for safe, inclusive digital transcultural communications 

Moderator: Professor Ming Zhou, Beijing Normal University  

Speakers:

Dr. Baasanjav, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA
Professor Jinghong Xu, Beijing Normal University, China
Furui Wang, Zhejiang University, China
Dr. Anthony Löwstedt, Webster Vienna Private University, Austria

Open Discussion

11:00 am to 12:50 pm (Beijing Time); 03:00 – 04:50 am (UTC)

Panel 2: Governance of digital communications market access, standards and structures  

Moderator: Dr. Rui Wang, Beijing Normal University

Speakers:

Dr. He Qing, Beijing Post Communication University and Dr. Yik-Chan Chin, Beijing Normal University, China
Professor Tao Li, Beijing Normal University, China
Dr. Swati Jaywant Rao Bute, Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal - India
Dr Niels ten Oever - University of Amsterdam, Netherland

Open Discussion

14:00 pm - 15:50 pm (Beijing Time); 06:00-07:50 am (UTC)

Panel 3: Digital governance of the AI

Moderator: Dr. Qian Li, Beijing Normal University

Speakers:

José Alarcón, Universidad de Educación a Distancia, Spain
Mennatullah Hendawy, TU Berlin, Germany
Dr. Fei Shen, City University of Hong Kong, China
Prof. Ye Wu, Beijing Normal University, China
Prof. Xiaofan Liu, City University of Hong Kong, China

Open Discussion

16:00 pm - 17:50 pm (Beijing time); 08:00 – 09:50 am (UTC)

Panel 4: Digital Governance and Public Service Media in an Age of Platformisation 

Moderator: Prof. Fiona Martin, Sydney University, Australia

Speakers:

1. Professor Terry Flew, University of Sydney, Australia

2.  Dr Maria Michalis,  University of Westminster, UK

3. Professor Victor Pickard , Annenberg U of Pennsylvania, USA

4.  Dr Anis Rahman, University of Washington, USA

5. Erik N. Martin, FAS Impact Fellow and DayOne Project, USA

Open Discussion

17:50 – 18:00 pm (Beijing time) 09:50 am – 10:00 am (UTC)

Closing Remarks: Synthesis and Outlook

Best wishes,

Yik Chan 

New Articles/Book: 

Yik Chan Chin, Zhao Jingwu (2022 forthcoming), Governing Cross-Border Data Flows : International trade agreements and their limits, MDPI Laws. Special Issue on “International Law as a driver of Internet Governance”.

Yik Chan Chin, Arhan Park, Ke Li (2022) A Comparative Study on Disinformation Governance in Chinese and American Social Media Platforms, Policy & Internet, 1–21.https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.301. Special Issue on “Comparative Internet Governance Studies”.

Muller, Milton & Yik Chan Chin (2022)Editorial: Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China. Policy & Internet, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.306, Special Issue on “Comparative Internet Governance Studies”.

Chin, Yik Chan and Li, Ke, (2021) A Comparative analysis of Cyber Sovereignty Policies in China and the EU. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3900752 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3900752

Chin, Yik Chan (2020) ‘Internet governance in China: the network governance approach’ In Dragan Pavlićević and Zhengxu Wang (eds.) Social Relations and Political Development in China: Change and Continuity in the ‘New Era’, London: Routledge: page 134-153.

Chin, Yik Chan (2018) Legitimation of Media Regulation in China, Chinese Political Science Review, 3(2), 172-194.

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Dr. Yik Chan Chin

Associate Professor  
School of Journalism and Communication 
Beijing Normal University 
Beijing, P. R. China 215123
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