Post-truth Politics? Populism, Authenticity and the Discourse of Donald Trump 19/01/2017 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 This paper focuses on aspects of the discourse of Donald Trump during his successful campaign to become the 45th President of the United States of America. It argues that, although we can undoubtedly identify aspects of authoritarian populism in
The 3-day conference has attracted some 120 scholars, researchers, professors and graduate students working in film, media and popular culture studies from the interdisciplinary field of the arts, humanities and social sciences. In addition to a wide array of paper presentations, it also features three keynote lectures by distinguished scholars of international reputation,
"A Dynamic Approach in Monitoring and Analyzing Online Opinions" at 14:30-16:00, in J218 Abstract: Since the social media became more and more popular, online opinions generated from them have received great attention from academics, policy makers and commercial playmakers. Traditional means and tools are no longer sufficient to collect and monitor such huge
Zhu Wenbo, a master’s student from the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, received the Best Student Paper Prize at the annual conference of the China New Media Communication Association (CNMCA) held at Fudan University, Shanghai, for his paper entitled “Interpreting the Symbolic Landscape: Fantasy Theme Analysis and Internet Opinion Research”. For
Prof. Wu Mei from the Department of Communication, University of Macau (UM), has published a new book entitled “Internet Mercenaries and Viral Marketing: The Case of Chinese Social Media” through IGI Global, a leading publisher of new media studies. Co-authored with two other scholars from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Tsinghua
In April 2013 the Department of Communication hosted a workshop on the topic of “Tourist Utopias.” The workshop was organized by Tim Simpson and participants included Keller Easterling (Yale School of Architecture), Pal Nyiri (Anthropology, VU Univ., Amsterdam), Panivong Norindr (Comparative Literature, USC), Angela Ndalianis (Media Studies, Univ. of Melbourne), Veronica Della Dora
A research team led by Prof Chen Huailin and Prof Wu Mei which includes Dr Li Xiaoqin and a dozen master’s and PhD students from the Department of Communication, has successfully completed the consultancy project “Guangzhou Daily 2012 Survey and Research Project” and earned unanimous praise from the middle and top management of
Prof. Wu Mei and student Wang Qinglin received academic prizes from the China New Media Communication Association. Prof. Wu also gave a keynote “Marshall Mcluhan in China: Analysis of China’s Communication Sector from Marshall Mcluhan’s Perspective”
Guest Speaker Ms. Cheung Chui-Yung, a journalist and war correspondent, explores the hidden side of the revolution in Cairo, Egypt." at 16:30-18:00, in JG07 [...] About the Seminar In February 2011, Ms Cheung Chui-yung went to Cairo, Egypt for in-depth report of the Jasmine Revolution and explored the hidden side beyond the revolution.