MCLC: China Internet Research 2012--cfp

Wed Feb 1 08:31:00 EST 2012

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From: anne hennochowicz <annemh at alumni.upenn.edu>
Subject: China Internet Research 2012--cfp
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Dear MCLCers,

The 10th annual Chinese Internet Research Conference will be held at USC
this May. The deadline for paper submissions has been extended. The
conference brings people from academia, government, and the private sector
together. As an attendee of last year's conference, I would highly
recommend it to anyone with an interest in Chinese media, social media,
Internet culture, and civil society. Work allowing, I'll be there this
year as well.

Best,
Anne

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Please note the following NEW DATES for the 10th Chinese Internet Research
Conference (CIRC) 2012, hosted by University of Southern California's
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism:

·Deadline for submission of papers has been extended to March 31, 2012.
Authors will be notified of acceptance latest by April 6, 2012. We will
make every effort to give earlier notification.

· Conference dates: May 22-23, 2012.

CIRC10: Social Media, Digital Entertainment, Governance & Social
Movements

Ten years ago, when China¹s Internet population totaled 22.5 million and
Facebook and Twitter had not even been conceived, a group of researchers
came together to organize a conference to study the Internet in China. By
all indications even then, it was clear that China would have a major
impact on the global digital economy. Ten years on, that foresight has
been vindicated.

China today has the largest Internet population of any country and it has
made its presence felt in the Internet space. In all aspects of the
Internet  online gaming, micro blogging, search engines, e-commerce,
content regulation, Internet governance, international domain names 
China is both changing and being changed by the Internet.

The annual Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) investigates these
phenomena, asking probing questions into what, how, to what extent, and
why these changes are taking and have taken place.

Hosted by the University of Southern California¹s Annenberg School for
Communication & Journalism, the 10th Annual Chinese Internet Research
Conference  CIRC10  will be held on May 22-23, 2012, in Los Angeles, the
world's entertainment capital.

CIRC10 will examine trends and themes as we explore the ways in which the
Internet and other technologies interact with Chinese cultural and social
life.

We welcome contributions from all and disciplines that seek to address
these themes. This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars,
analysts, industry leaders, journalists and legal practitioners from
around the world to examine the impact of the Internet on Chinese
societies, its social, cultural, political and economic aspects, as well
as how China is changing the Internet.

Submissions may come from any discipline. Specific topics of interest
include but are not limited to:

·Industry involvement  gaming, youth, social media; consumption patterns,
online popular culture; China as original developer in gaming products;

·Governance issues  state regulation and content controls; e-government
and m-government; civil society and Internet governance; China and global
Internet governance;

·Online social movements  social media and grassroots activism; micro
blogging and its impact across traditional Internet portals and start-ups
over the new generation of Chinese ³digital natives²;

·Ten years in retrospect  review of developments in digital/social media
And prognoses for the future of the internet

We will accept three categories of English-language submissions:

·Full papers  these should be 2025 pages long with a maximum of 10,000
words.
·Extended abstracts  these should be 7501,000 words.
·Panel submissions  these should have a maximum of 2,000 words.

All proposals will be peer reviewed. Submissions should be sent via e-mail
to
chinainternet10 at gmail.com by March 31, 2012. Please include your
affiliation, title (include graduate student status if applicable), and
contact information. If you are proposing a panel, please include that
information for all panelists. Authors will be notified of acceptance
latest by April 6, 2012. We will make every effort to give earlier
notification.

Selected papers from the conference may be published in a conference
volume or a special symposium issue of an academic journal. Participation
in the conference neither guarantees nor compels publication of a paper.

A limited amount of travel funding will be available for promising young
scholars. To indicate interest in the travel scholarship, please attach
your CV along with the submitted abstract.

Graduate students may submit conference papers for the annual graduate
student paper competition. Eligibility is limited to papers that do not
include any faculty co-authors.

Conference cooperating institutions include: The Intellectual Property Law
Center at Drake University Law School; Institute for Pacific Asia at Texas
A&M University; School of Journalism and Communication at Chinese
University of Hong Kong, School of Journalism and Communication at Peking
University; Singapore Internet Research Center (SiRC) at Nanyang
Technological
University.

Past Chinese Internet Research Conferences were held at: Georgetown
University (CIRC9), Peking University (CIRC8), the University of
Pennsylvania (CIRC7), the University of Hong Kong (CIRC6), Texas A&M
University (CIRC5), Nanyang Technological University (CIRC4), Michigan
State University (CIRC3), University of California at Berkeley (CIRC2),
and the University of Southern California (CIRC1).

The Convener of CIRC10:

USC Annenberg School was founded in 1971 with generous support from
Ambassador
Walter H. Annenberg. Its strategic location in Los Angeles at USC enables
it to foster
dynamic synergies and multidisciplinary approaches to the study of
communication and
journalism through unparalleled access to the nation's and the world's
entertainment,
media and technology industries.

Today, with more than 83 full-time faculty members and 120 adjunct
professors,
more than 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students, and dozens of
research and public interest projects and programs, USC Annenberg has
become a center for discussion among scholars and professionals in
journalism, communication, public policy, media, and education.

Multidisciplinary and international in scope, focused and practical in
application,
USC Annenberg scholars, both students and faculty, are defining these
fields for the 21st
century and beyond.

USC Annenberg School is proud to host CIRC10, marking the tenth anniversary
from when the conference series first started at USC Annenberg