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<div style="margin:0px">COMMUNICATION INNOVATION, NEW MEDIA, AND DIGITAL JOURNALISM</div>
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<div style="margin:0px 0px 12pt"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:17pt">Shenzhen, China, June 26 –28, 2019</span></font><font size="5"><span style="font-size:17pt"><br>
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:13pt">Co-sponsored by the Shenzhen University (SZU) of China and the National Communication Association (NCA)</span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 12pt">THE SHENZHEN FORUM WILL BRING TOGETHER
SCHOLARS AND MEDIA PRACTITIONERS from around the world to engage in
conversations about cutting-edge communication-based issues. The Forum
will include three “tracks”:</div>
<div style="margin:0px">TRACK 1: EXPERIMENTS IN COMMUNICATION INNOVATION,
led by Dr. Rolien Hoyng, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
<a href="mailto:rolienhoyng@cuhk.edu.hk" target="_blank">rolienhoyng@cuhk.edu.hk</a> (the NCA representative), and Dr. Chen
Changfeng, Tsinghua University, <a href="mailto:fengchen5266@163.com" target="_blank">fengchen5266@163.com</a> (the SZU
representative)</div>
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<div style="margin:0px 0px 12pt">Despite critiques of the ongoing
glorification of “innovation” within multiple corporate spheres,
scholars remain committed to both studying and practicing inventiveness,
newness, and difference. This track accordingly reflects on how
different communicative habits emerge from within processes of
technological standardization, global integration, and digital
innovation. It looks across the front-end experiences of users and the
back-end infrastructures of digital and global communication to prompt
participants to consider the dilemmas and opportunities of innovation
and inventiveness. On the one hand, the globalization of infrastructures
and platforms seems contingent on their ability to accommodate
different practices and uses, even while doing so within increasingly
standardized settings. On the other hand, new technological applications
may not simply partake in ongoing processes of globalization, but also
can change where globalization is headed. This track will ask: Does
“innovation” support or compromise existing corporate control and
statecraft? Does it fuel targeted struggles for social justice in the
age of globalization? Or, does “innovation” call forth new communicative
possibilities that transcend our understanding? This track will pursue
these questions by inviting scholars to share specific case studies of
communication “innovation” in practice.</div>
<div style="margin:0px">TRACK 2: INTERSECTIONS IN NEW MEDIA AND HEALTH
COMMUNICATION, led by Dr. Yuqiong Zhou, Shenzhen University,
<a href="mailto:yuqiongzhou@126.com" target="_blank">yuqiongzhou@126.com</a> (the SZU representative), and Dr. Amy Hasinoff, CU
Denver, <a href="mailto:amy.hasinoff@ucdenver.edu" target="_blank">amy.hasinoff@ucdenver.edu</a> (the NCA representative)</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Traditional health communication scholarship has
focused on face-to-face interactions, yet the proliferation of new media
technologies means that many patients now speak with their doctor or
nurse-practitioner via online messaging platforms, while many health
care seekers resort to online systems for information and advice. At the
same time, public communication about family health, dieting, gender
and sexuality, and aging is now widely practiced via new media
platforms, few of which are refereed for accuracy, and many of which are
little more than marketing scams. Thus, while there has never before
been so much information available to users regarding their health,
there has also never been so much disinformation waiting to send users
into tailspins of bad advice, risky behavior, and financial ruin. In
addition, in both China and America, questions of new media and health
communication hinge on access to the internet, meaning these issues
touch upon class, wealth, and debates about how “public” the internet
really is. In short, health communication and new media are now
interlaced in empowering, alarming, and confusing ways. This track will
enable participants to study the interweaving of new media and health
communication via specific case studies drawn from American, Chinese,
and other international contexts.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">TRACK 3: THE DIGITAL JOURNALISM CHALLENGE, led by
Dr. Qingwen Dong, University of the Pacific, <a href="mailto:qdong@pacific.edu" target="_blank">qdong@pacific.edu</a> (the NCA
representative) and Xiaojin Gu, Shenzhen University, <a href="mailto:gxj@szu.edu.cn" target="_blank">gxj@szu.edu.cn</a> (the
SZU representative)</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">A digital revolution is transforming how we think
about journalism. “Legacy” outlets such as the New York Times and
People’s Daily face challenges from a vast array of websites and
emerging new media platforms. Some of these new outlets offer exciting
opportunities for producing “citizen journalism” or “backpack
journalism,” thus furthering the cause of social justice. Yet many of
them have become the purveyors of lies, conspiracy theories, and calls
for violence, meaning the world of journalism is fracturing. For
example, in America, the “news” is now produced not only by credible
journalists but also by propagandists at Fox, neo-Nazis at the Daily
Stormer, and a reality-challenged tweeter from the White House. In
China, the “news” is now produced not only by the Party’s many outlets,
but by separatists in Xinjiang and radicals in Tibet. In India, Myanmar,
and Iran, digital outlets have called for riots and stoked ethnic and
religious violence. Many observers are therefore calling ours a
“post-truth” age. Indeed, all around the world, we are facing a crisis
in journalism that is underwritten by a crisis in notions of evidence,
trust, and credibility—with the whole process being driven by
revolutions in digital media production and distribution. This track
will pursue the causes and consequences of this digital revolution in
journalism, and will feature case studies of both negative and positive
examples.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px 0px 12pt">SCHEDULE OF EVENTS<br>
NCA participants will arrive in Shenzhen on the evening of Wednesday,
June 25. On Thursday, June 26, we will lead a morning excursion to the
international headquarters of TenCent, one of the largest media
companies in the world, where participants will interact with China’s
new social media leaders. That afternoon, NCA will lead a pre-Forum
workshop to discuss best practices in international communication,
offering participants an opportunity to engage in open conversation
regarding the complicated terrain of academic and political life in
contemporary China. The Shenzhen Forum will then hold sessions all day
on Friday, June 27, and Saturday, June 28, concluding Saturday evening
with an NCA-hosted reception. Participants will depart from Shenzhen on
Sunday, June 29. In an act of great generosity, SZU will cover hotel
accommodations for the nights of June 25, 26, 27, and 28, as well as all
conference registration fees. To support the travel needs of NCA-member
graduate students and early-career faculty members, NCA will award 10 <font size="1"><span style="font-size:7pt">$</span></font>1,000 travel grants to selected individuals.</div>
<div style="margin:0px 0px 12pt">APPLICATION INFORMATION<br>
We invite submissions that address any of the “tracks” cited above.
Applicants should submit a project proposal of roughly 1,000 words.
Submissions can be made in English or Chinese and should indicate the
submitter’s home institution. Submissions should be in Microsoft Word or
Adobe.pdf format. The deadline for all submissions is February 1, 2019.
Applicants will be contacted with results by March 1, 2019. Please note
that we assume all applicants are making good-will submissions and
will, if accepted, attend the Forum. Submitters should send their
materials to the appropriate “track leader” listed above (with all
English language submissions going to the NCA representative for that
track and all Chinese language submissions going to the SZU
representative for that track).</div>
<div style="margin:0px">RESULTING PUBLICATIONS<br>
Following the model used to publish Imagining China: Rhetorics of
Nationalism in the Age of Globalization (Michigan State University
Press, 2017), the track leaders will edit two volumes, with one in
English (NCA in charge) and another in Chinese (SZU in charge). These
are not conference proceedings, but academic books wherein each chapter
is an expanded version of the original conference presentation. The
track leaders will solicit chapters from the conference presenters and
will handle all subsequent book-publishing tasks working in conjunction
with the series editor, Stephen J. Hartnett.</div>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Director MA Program in Global Communication</p>
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