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Professor Chan Talks about Creative Commons

Professor Chan Talks about Creative Commons

In the age of the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook and the Apple iPad, the landscape of information acquisition, access and distribution is quickly changing, but one thing has not changed in the publishing world:…

Jan 13: Lecture – How New Technologies Helped in Novel Ways with Haiti Earthquake Relief

Jan 13: Lecture – How New Technologies Helped in Novel Ways with Haiti Earthquake Relief

Anne Nelson, author of Media, Information Systems and Communities: Lessons from Haiti, will discuss findings from a Knight Foundation report on how digital media and information technology can significantly improve relief efforts and coordinate on-the-ground operations on Thursday 13…

China Media Project Fellow Comments on Mainland University Education System

China Media Project Fellow Comments on Mainland University Education System

Zhang Ming, a fellow of the JMSC’s China Media Project (CMP) and a political science professor at Renmin University, has written an article about how bureaucracy is holding back university education in China.

The article was first published in…

Jan 12: Knowledge Exchange Lunch Meeting

Jan 12: Knowledge Exchange Lunch Meeting

Professor Ying Chan, the Director of the JMSC, will speak at a Knowledge Exchange about the Creative Commons License on Wednesday January 12, 2011.

Creative Commons (CC) is an international system of intellectual property rights management through which creators…

JMSC Designated Administrator of the SOPA Awards

JMSC Designated Administrator of the SOPA Awards

The JMSC has been designated the administrator of this year’s Society of Publishers in Asia Awards. Doreen Weisenhaus, Associate Professor and Director of the Media Law Project at the JMSC, has been selected as Head of Judges.

3-3-4 Academic Structure and Centennial Campus

3-3-4 Academic Structure and Centennial Campus

Sheena Yap is a third year Bachelor of Journalism Student at the JMSC. She is Malaysian Chinese, but was born and brought up in Hong Kong.

As an Independent Study Project, Yap wrote a story about the changes coming to…

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