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

12/09/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Digital Investigation Fundamentals by AFP Fact Check Abstract: What are some common types of mis- and disinformation circulating in Asia? What key skills do fact-checkers, journalists and researchers need to combat misinformation and access high-quality information on the internet? In this mini-workshop, I will introduce how we operate

25/04/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Thinking "Sissiness" through Trans/national Masculinities in Contemporary China Abstract: Based on a recent paper co-authored with Prof. Tingting Liu (Jinan University), this talk discusses China’s recent “sissy ban” by situating discourses of sissiness and sissyphobia in a field of complex and competing discourses amidst rising nationalist sentiments and

18/04/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 International Migration to China: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Abstract: With the influx of international migrants, China has been transformed from a traditional sending country of outbound migrants into an emerging destination in the landscape of international migration in the past forty years. Why do migrating individuals decide to come

11/04/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Affective Engagement in Women's Empowerment Online: Potentials, Limitations and Backlash Abstract: The relationship between the internet and women’s empowerment has been the subject of extensive inquiry – from Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto to the proliferation of women’s blogs, e-zines, online clips and social media accounts. As digital

15/03/2024 (Friday) 16:00-17:00 E21B-G002 Is negativity as the basic news value an illusion? Sentiment evidence from Pulitzer Prize-winning news reports Abstract:Previous studies have observed Linguistic Positivity Bias (LPB) as a universal linguistic phenomenon across various discourses. Yet, this stands in sharp contrast with the assumption in news that takes Negativity as the

07/03/2024 (Thursday) 18:00 ~ 19:00 E21B-G002 Prof. Guotao ZHANG is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Communication University of China, Chief expert of a major project funded by the National Social Science Foundation. Prof. ZHANG’s main research areas include television art theory, television drama aesthetics, media art, TV program planning, and

22/02/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Who's afraid of the big bad fake news Abstract: Many people care enough about fake news to harbor strong personal convictions about it, although the bases for these convictions either way are often quite wobbly. I will share my views on this trendy issue du jour by pointing