MCLC: China's Media Go Global--cfp

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Xu Guo <X.Guo at westminster.ac.uk>
Subject: China's Media Go Global--cfp
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Dear colleagues,

China Media Centre to announce the upcoming international conference.
 

Topic: China’s Media Go Global
Date: 2-3 September, 2014.
Venue: Tsinghua University School of Journalism and Communication,
Beijing, China
 

China is dramatically increasing its media presence in the world. Within
the next few months CCTV will establish in Europe its third Media Hub,
after Africa and the USA. Xinhua has expanded its operations and includes
24 hour television news. The quality and range of publications, radio and
television channels and online information has developed rapidly in
several languages. Chinese media are supplying facilities and training to
the media of many other countries, even as they also soak up the
experience and knowledge of the most advanced media industries. Not only
national media but provincial media are entering the world’s markets.

For more details, see below.

The deadline for abstracts is 25 May 2014. Successful applicants will be
notified early in June 2014. Abstracts should be 200 words. They must be
accompanied by the presenter’s name, affiliation, email and postal
addresses, together with the title of the paper and a 150-word
biographical note on the presenter. Please send all these items together
in a single Word file, not as pdf, and entitle the file and message with
‘CMGG 2014’ followed by your surname. The file should be sent by email to
CMCconferences at westminster.ac.uk

The fee for registration for all participants, including presenters, will
be £80, with a concessionary rate of £30 for up to 10 students, to cover
all conference documentation, refreshments, lunch, closing dinner and
administration costs. Registration will open in April 2014.

Please disseminate widely.

All help will be truly appreciated.

Best regards,
 
China Media Centre (CMC)
University of Westminster
Watford Road, Northwick Park
Harrow
London HA1 3TP

The Chairmen of the conference are:

Shi Anbin, Professor of Professor of Media/Cultural Studies and Director,
Israel Epstein Center for Global Media and Communication, Tsinghua
University 

Hugo de Burgh, Professor of Journalism and Director, The China Media
Centre, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of
Westminster 

We welcome contributions that consider the following topics and other
related issues: 

-Is this effort having the desired effect, viz improving the
representation and profile of China abroad and providing an alternative to
the dominant Anglophone voice?
-How successful are the Chinese media in gaining audiences abroad?
-How does the information produced contribute to or damage mutual
understanding? 
-How does information produced by Western and Chinese media shape
knowledge and influence other journalists, policy-makers, policy-analysts,
NGO workers, business professionals, or the broader public.
-China’s rise has resulted in increased attention to China abroad.
International news agencies and media outlets, such as Reuters, the New
York Times, or BBC, are putting greater emphasis on providing information
about China. What changes to the reporting of China by non Chinese actors
are taking place in response to the Going-out strategy?
-What are people saying inside China about how to situate the country
within the broader international community and especially in relation to
“the West”, 
-Chinese media are considered, in the Anglosphere, to lack independence
and are perceived to be tightly controlled by the state; is this borne out
by the facts of Chinese media abroad?
-What kind of changes are the Chinese media making to their reporting,
programme making or media management, in order to appeal to non-Chinese
audiences? 
-How do specific Chinese media products compare to their equivalents, eg
from CNN, Al-Jazeera, BBC?
-How do the Chinese media function as platforms for softpower?
-What values are Chinese media expressing?
-Do the Chinese media express points of view on international; issues, eg
Syria, that differ from those of other media? Is there a Chinese national
line? 
-The roles being played by Chinese media in Africa
-The effect of internationalization in the Chinese media themselves
-Controversies over Chinese media abroad
-The perceptions of non-Chinese media professionals of their Chinese
counterparts 
-What is the Chinese media model and how does it differ from other models
-Implications of the expansion of Chinese media for international
relations 
-How observers outside of China perceive Chinese sources of information,
what kind of sources they use and need, and which standards they use to
authenticate and evaluate the information
-The role of the internet and especially social media in changing
perceptions of China abroad.

PUBLICATION 
We intend to select a selection of the papers for publication as a special
issue of an international, peer reviewed journal or book.

DEADLINES, REGISTRATION AND TRAVEL

The deadline for abstracts is 25 May 2014. Successful applicants will be
notified early in June 2014. Abstracts should be 200 words. They must be
accompanied by the presenter’s name, affiliation, email and postal
addresses, together with the title of the paper and a 150-word
biographical note on the presenter. Please send all these items together
in a single Word file, not as pdf, and entitle the file and message with
‘CMGG 2014’ followed by your surname. The file should be sent by email to:

Cconferences at westminster.ac.uk.

Participants fund their own travel and accommodation expenses.

The fee for registration for all participants, including presenters, will
be £80, with a concessionary rate of £30 for up to 10 students, to cover
all conference documentation, refreshments, lunch, closing dinner and
administration costs. Registration will open in April 2014.

 
Conference organisers can help participants to book the accommodation
before the end of June; the accommodation fee should be paid by the
participants on their check-in at the hotel. The price is as following:
Uniscenter Hotel, near the Tsinghua University east gate, double/twin
rooms (515 RMB per night), breakfast included for one person. Single room
(570RMB per night) breakfast included. For the hotel information, please
visit http://www.uniscenter.com.bookings. Participants can also book the
hotel by themselves but please inform the hotel that the booking is for
the Tsinghua conference in order to be given the discounted price.

If you have any questions regarding the conference or the programme, do
not hesitate to get in touch with us through Ms Cao Shule
(caoshule at gmail.com) and for logistics through Ms Li Hongxia
(tsjcws at mail.tsinghua.edu.cn; +8610-62796842). If you are not from China
and have any queries, please contact Ms Alja Kranjec on +44 208 357 7354
or on cmc-office at westminster.ac.uk.