06/03/2025 (Thursday) 11:00-12:00 E21B-G002 Academic Imagination and Exploration of Intelligent Communication (Talk in Mandarin) Abstract： Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming a significant driving force, profoundly impacting both journalistic practices and academic research. This seminar will explore the new academic landscape that AI technologies have brought to the field of communication studies,
27/02/2025 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Un-coding AI in Everyday Life: Practices and Reasoning in AI Encounters Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of everyday life, shaping how lay users engage with technology in routine activities. This presentation explores how non-experts encounter, interpret, and navigate AI systems in everyday contexts, from
14/02/2025 (Friday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Shallowness of Liberalism in Postwar, Postcolonial Asia Abstract: A commonplace critique of Anglo-American university trained political scientists regarding political development of postwar, postcolonial nations in Asia is their lack of progress towards liberalism democracy. So much so that the recent book, From Development to Democracy: The Transformation of
16/01/2025 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Converging patterns, diverging scales? Comparing and connecting late-colonial and postcolonial Goa (India) and Macau (China) Abstract: This paper outlines a thematic and analytical basis for comparing the late-colonial and postcolonial experience of Goa and Macau, two former Portuguese enclaves and present-day leisure destinations in India and China respectively.
15/01/2025 (Wednesday) 11:00-12:30 E21B-G002 Political Theory from a Global Perspective Abstract: Underlying many of the dominant theories in the social sciences and humanities has been an implicit (and often explicit) teleology in which Euro-American concepts that arose in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are assumed to be normative.The goal of this talk
10/12/2024 (Tuesday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 After visibility: data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce Abstract: This study analyzes how audience attention and platform traffic are manufactured and integrated with retail in context of China’s recent government policy that positions data as a factor of production equal to labor, land, technology, and
28/11/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Exposure to non-partisan news from partisan media: Its effects on attitudes toward oppositional media Abstract: “Partisan distrust in oppositional media is a significant concern. Partisans commonly believe that out-party news outlets are always biased and one-sided and gravitate toward news outlets they associate with their side. However, this
21/11/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Place-weaving and community-texturising through neighbourhood group-shopping in post-Covid Wuhan Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has been said as a “digital pandemic”. Different societies have experienced the unprecedented permeation of digital technologies and platform applications in people’s daily life both during and after Covid. How has this “digital pandemic” reshaped
14/11/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 The Reshaping of Communication by Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from Tencent Abstract: With the advent of the Web 3.0 era, Al's influence has gradually expanded from technological Innovation and productivity enhancement to reshaping information dissemination, human thinking paradigms, and social organization. Al is rapidly advancing beyond the integration of
31/10/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 “Belonging is Stronger than Facts”: Combating Vaccine Hesitancy with a Culturally Sensitive Approach Abstract: Vaccine hesitancy remains a critical global health challenge, raising essential questions: Why do people believe in vaccine misinformation? What makes it so difficult to address vaccine hesitancy? Most importantly, how can we bridge the