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Schedule

FRIDAY, JUNE 13TH:

8:00-8:30am	REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
8:30-8:45am	Greetings and Announcements - Professor Ying Chan, Director, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong - Rebecca MacKinnon, Assistant Professor, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong
8:45-10:15am	SESSION 1: New Scholars Panel: Survey Findings Moderator: Randolph Kluver, Director, Institute for Pacific Asia, Texas A&M University Discussant: Francis Lee, Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong Peng Tai-Quan and Jonathan Zhu, Ph.D Candidate and Professor, City University of Hong Kong. “Don’t Blame the Internet Anymore! – A Revisit to the Internet’s Influence on Traditional Media Use and Sociability” Zeng Jie and Zhou Xiang, M.A. Candidate and Professor, Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication, Shantou University. “Perceived Credibility of Online Health Information in China: A Survey of College Students in Ganzhou” Li Xuefang, M.A. Candidate, Communication University of China. “Uses and development of the Internet in less developed regions” Zhou Baohua, Lecturer, Journalism Department, Fudan University. “Information and Expression in Web 2.0: A Study of Internet Users in Shanghai”
10:15-10:30am	COFFEE BREAK
10:30-12:00pm	SESSION 2: New Scholars Panel: Comparative Perspectives Moderator: Li Hongmei, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University Discussant: Jack Qiu, Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Liao Han-teng, D.Phil Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. “Chinese-written Internet: Diversity and Segregation” Daphne Richet-Cooper, Intern, French Centre for Research on Contemporary China. “Virtual Jingpo: A Jingpo/Kachin Techno-community?” Chen Yenling, Assistant Professor, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan. “The situation characteristics of language on the Internet.” Ou Shujun, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Government and Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. “Identification, Monitoring and State Extractive Capacity: China’s Golden Tax Project”
12:00-1:15pm	LUNCH & REGISTRATION
1:15- 1:45pm	Welcoming remarks - Professor Ying Chan, Director, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong - Professor Paul Tam, Pro-Vice-Chancellor(Research), The University of Hong Kong
1:45-2:45pm	SESSION 3: Presentation & Discussion: Chinese Internet User Survey Moderator: Ang Peng Hwa, Chair, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Presentation by Deborah Fallows, Pew Internet & American Life Project. Reaction and analysis from Roland Soong, media researcher and blogger at EastSouthWestNorth.
2:45-3:00pm	COFFEE BREAK
3:00-4:15pm	SESSION 4: Myths vs. Realities Moderator: Randolph Kluver, Director, Institute for Pacific Asia, Texas A&M University. Discussant: Antonio La Pastina, Associate Professor, Communication Dept. at Texas A&M University Bu Wei, Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. “Discussion of methods and perspectives used in Internet research” Lokman Tsui, Ph.D Candidate, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania. “The Great Firewall as Iron Curtain 2.0: the Implications of China’s Internet most dominant metaphor for U.S. Foreign Policy.” Jens Damm, Assistant Professor, Freie Universität Berlin. “The Chinese Diasporic Cyberspace: Overseas Chinese Essentialism vs. Hybrid Transnationalism”
4:15-4:30pm	GROUP PHOTO & COFFEE BREAK
4:30-6:00pm	SESSION 5: ROUNDTABLE – Corporate action and responsibility Moderator: Rebecca MacKinnon, Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong Issac Mao, Co-founder, CNBlog.org Charles Mok, Chairman, Internet Society of Hong Kong. Ching Chiao, VP Community Relations, DotAsia. Joshua Rosenzweig, Manager of Research and Programs, Duihua Foundation Duncan Clark, Chairman, BDA

SATURDAY JUNE 14TH:

9:00-10:15am	SESSION 6: Society, Continuity & Change Moderator/Discussant: Jack Qiu, Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Jesper Shlaeger, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. “Coal and the Internet in China Digital governance and politics of markets” Chung Peichi, Assistant Professor, Communications and New Media Programme, National University of Singapore. “The Online Game Industry in China: A Preliminary Observation on the Political Economic Structure.” Matthew Chew, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University. “Virtual-World Unrest and the Gamer Rights Protection Movement in China”
10:15-10:30am	COFFEE BREAK
10:30-12:00pm	SESSION 7: Law, Regulation and Governance Moderator: Peter Yu, Professor & Director, Intellectual Property Law Center, Drake University Law School Discussant: Doreen Weisenhaus, Director of the Media Law Project & Assistant Professor, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong Olivier Arifon, Assistant Professor, Robert Schuman University / CERIME laboratory, Strasbourg France. “Regulation of Internet: technical, normative or cultural conception; a cross comparison between Europe and China.” Duncan Clark, Chairman, BDA. “Government & Online Video in China: WeTube, not YouTube?“ Johan Lagerkvist, Research Fellow, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs- Norms and the Legitimacy of Law in China: the Case of ‘Black Internet Cafes’ Anne Cheung, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, “Myths and Reality: Too Little or Too Much Freedom for Mainland Netizens?”
12:00-1:15pm	LUNCH
1:15-1:30pm	Best Graduate Student Paper Presentation by Randy Kluver, Jack Qiu and Peter Yu
1:30-2:30pm	SESSION 8: DISCUSSION: Internet, Tibet, and the Olympics Moderator: Jeremy Goldkorn, Founder, Danwei.org Discussion with bloggers Roland Soong of EastSouthWestNorth and Isaac Mao of CNBlog.org
2:30-2:45pm	COFFEE BREAK
2:45pm-4:30pm	SESSION 9: Blogging and online discourse (Part 1) Moderator: Rebecca MacKinnon, Assistant Professor, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong. Jiang Min, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, UNC-Charlotte. “Authoritarian Deliberation: Public Deliberation in China” Xiao Qiang, Adjunct Professor, University of California at Berkeley. “The Rise of Online Public Opinion and Its Political Impact” Ashley Esraey, Assistant Professor, Middlebury College. “Political Discourse in Chinese Blogs” (Part 2) Moderator: Hu Yong, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University Peter Marolt, Ph.D Candidate, University of Southern California. “Crossing the River by Groping for Stones: From Free Expression to Shared Meanings to Collective Political Action in China’s Blogosphere.” Hsu Chiung-wen, Assistant Professor, Department of Radio & Television & Graduate Program, College of Communication, National Chengchi University. “What Chinese bloggers blog – examining the top 100 weblogs in China.”
4:30-4:45pm	COFFEE BREAK
4:45pm-6:15pm	SESSION 10: ROUNDTABLE – Chinese journalism in the Internet age Chair and key presenter: Qian Gang, Co-Director, China Media Project, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong Moderator/facilitator: David Bandurski, Research Associate, China Media Project, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong. Panel of Chinese journalists and bloggers: Hu Yong, Associate Professor, Peking University Li Yong-gang, Assistant Director, Universities Service Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Song Zheng, Editor-in-chief, Tianya Zhang Dong-sheng, Editor-in-chief (Editorial Department), QQ.com Zhai Minglei, Editor-in-chief, 1 Bao
6:15-6:30pm	CLOSING REMARKS