<div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">International Academic Conference: The Hybrid Subject: Navigating Human-AI Communication</span></b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Hosted by Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Dates</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">: June 28-30, 2026</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Venue</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">: Shenzhen, China</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Submission</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">: Full papers OR extended abstracts</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"></p><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Conference Overview</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Against the rapid integration of artificial intelligence into social, organizational, and interpersonal communication, human-AI interaction has evolved from instrumental operation to </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">hybrid subjectivity</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">: AI systems participate as conversational partners, decision collaborators, and co-creators, reshaping identities, norms, power dynamics, and communicative practices. This conference convenes international scholars in communication, media studies, organizational behavior, digital sociology, human-computer interaction, and AI ethics to interrogate the hybrid subject in theory, method, and practice.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">We seek empirically grounded, conceptually innovative, and ethically reflective work that advances understanding of how humans and AI mutually constitute communication contexts, identities, and meanings. Selected presenters will be invited to deliver in-person talks in Shenzhen, engage with a global scholarly community, and exchange ideas at PHBS.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri">Keynote Speakers</font></span></b><b><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Chul-joo "CJ" Lee</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">, Department of Communication, Seoul National University, Co-Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Communication</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Nuri Kim</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Associate Editor for Human Communication Research</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Topics of Interest</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">We welcome submissions addressing (but not limited to):</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Theoretical frameworks of hybrid human-AI subjectivity</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Identity, agency, and authenticity in human-AI communication</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Organizational communication, leadership, and </span><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri">production</font></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> with AI agents</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Persuasion, trust, and misinformation in hybrid communication ecosystems</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Language, discourse, and conversational norms in human-AI interaction</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Ethical, privacy, and governance challenges of human-AI communication</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Methodological innovations for studying hybrid communication</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Cross-cultural and global perspectives on human-AI interaction</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Submission Guidelines</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Eligibility</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Original, unpublished work not under review elsewhere</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Submissions must be in </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">English</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Submission Types</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10.5pt">1. </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Full Paper</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 72pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";font-size:10pt">o </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Length: 6,000–9,000 words (excluding references, tables, figures)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 72pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";font-size:10pt">o </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Include title, abstract (200–300 words), keywords, main text, references</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:10.5pt">2. </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Extended Abstract</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 72pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";font-size:10pt">o </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Length: 1,000–1,500 words (excluding title, references)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 72pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";font-size:10pt">o </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Clearly state research question, theoretical framework, method, preliminary findings, and contributions</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Submission Format</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Use APA 7th edition or consistent social science citation style</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Double-spaced, 12-point standard font (Times New Roman)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Submissions should </span><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri">b</font></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">e sent to </span><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri">phbscommunication@</font></span><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri"><a href="http://phbs.pku.edu.cn">phbs.pku.edu.cn</a></font></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Important Dates</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Submission Deadline: </span><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri">30 </font></span><b><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri">April</font></span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Notification of Acceptance: </span><b><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri">10 May</font></span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Conference Dates: </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">June 28–30, 2026</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Presentation</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Selected papers will be presented </span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">in person</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> at PHBS Shenzhen</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Presenters will receive official conference certificates</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">No submission fee or registration fee for participants</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Organizing Committee</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Conference Chair: WeiMing Ye, Associate Professor of Financial Media, PHBS</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Organizing Committee: Soojin Roh, Zhuo Chen, Luye Bao, and Yangjuan Hu</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Contact: </span><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri">phbscommunication@</font></span><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri"><a href="http://phbs.pku.edu.cn">phbs.pku.edu.cn</a></font></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Our 2024 conference </span><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:12pt">featured current and former Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">, Nicole Ellison and Shyam Sundar, as well as Ang Peng Hwa, Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Communication.</span><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"> </span><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri">Please refer to the news to learn more about previous conferences: </font></span><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"><font face="Calibri"><a href="https://www.phbs.pku.edu.cn/info/1151/115521.htm">https://www.phbs.pku.edu.cn/info/1151/115521.htm</a></font></span><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-family:宋体;font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">We invite you to contribute to this landmark dialogue on the hybrid subject and help shape the future of human-AI communication.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Peking University HSBC Business School</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Shenzhen, China</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">2026</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri;font-size:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><br></span></p></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:宋体,arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:宋体,arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Arial">WeiMing YE  Ph.D.  </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:宋体,ar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