[ecrea] Gatekeepers in a Digital Asian-European Media Landscape

Gatekeepers in a Digital  Asian-European Media Landscape:
The rising structural power of
Internet search engines


Leading Project Partners:

Prof. Dr. ANG Peng Hwa, Chair
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication
and Information
Nanyang Technological University
31 Nanyang Link
Singapore 637718

URL: www.ntu.edu.sg/sci
E-mail: (TPHANG /at/ ntu.edu.sg)
Prof. Dr. Marcel MACHILL, MPA (Harvard)
Chair of Journalism
University of Leipzig
Burgstr. 21
04109 Leipzig / Germany


URL: www.uni-leipzig.de/journalistik2
E-Mail: (machill /at/ uni-leipzig.de)


Conference date:
28 February - 1 March 2008

Conference venue:
Singapore Internet Research Centre (SiRC)
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Nanyang Technological University
31 Nanyang Link
Singapore 637718
URL: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/

Contact address:
Prof. Dr. Marcel Machill
(machill /at/ uni-leipzig.de)



An Asia-Europe Workshop funded by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)
and the Asia Alliance (main sponsors)

         The organizers also thank the 
Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation for their support
Workshop Programme
(Version: 08 January 2008)

Day 1: Thursday, 28 February 2008

14:00   Opening remarks from a representative of 
the Asia-Europe-Foundation (main supporting organization)
         Bertrand FORT, Deputy Executive Director, ASEF, Singapore

14:15   Overview about search engine research in Asia and Europe:
Which research areas are of particular interest 
to Asian and European countries?
ANG Peng Hwa & Marcel MACHILL

15:15   Tea and coffee

15:45   Technical development - Latest trends of 
search engines in Asia and Europe: In which technological areas can
  Asian and European experts cooperate in order 
to strengthen alternative technology development outside of the
USA?
Nobuo SAITO

16:45   Open discussion: Asian and European 
languages are not necessarily English: Why do we need a special Asian-
         European approach when it comes to the 
development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and algorithms?
         Short input statements from Eddie KUO, 
Markus BEILER, Louis LEUNG and Marcel MACHILL

17:30   End of Day 1

19:00   Group dinner at Tung Luk Seafood Restaurant
         511 Upper Jurong Road,
The Arena Country Club
Singapore 638366
http://www.tunglok.com/index1.html


Day 2: Friday, 29 February 2008

   9:00  Media and Journalism - The issue of news 
search engines: Are news search engines in Europe and Asia highly
         influenced by US media? What are the 
selection criteria for news search engines? Do they follow international
         journalism standards?
Markus BEILER

10:30   Media and Journalism - How search engines 
alter the way of information seeking: Do journalists in Asia rely more
on electronic sources provided by search engines 
than journalists in Europe? Are traditional professional values
and paradigms of journalists being modified by the usage of search engines?
Marcel MACHILL & Markus BEILER

12:00   Lunch

13:30   Freedom of speech or censorship - The 
debate about Google. An Asian perspective from China
Louis LEUNG

14:30   Freedom of speech or protection of minors 
- The debate about Google and filtering. A European perspective
from France
Divina FRAU-MEIGS

15:30   Tea and coffee

16:00   Open discussion on the impact of search 
engines on Asian and European journalists and on freedom of speech
         around the globe.
         Short input statements from Divina 
FRAU-MEIGS, Klaus BRUHN JENSEN, ANG Peng Hwa and Fernando    PARAGAS

17:00   End of Day 2

17:30   Group dinner at the Tepak Sireh Restoran
Singapore's Malay Heritage Center, Sultan's Gate
73 Sultan Gate Singapore 198497
http://www.tepaksireh.com.sg/


Day 3: Saturday, 1 March 2008

   9:00  Search engines as communication and 
metacommunication - A theoretical perspective
Klaus Bruhn JENSEN

10:00   The importance of search engines for news 
usage in South-Korea in comparison to the UK
Yeon-ok LEE

11:00   Tea and Coffee

1130    The political economy of search engine 
brokered information: Market concentration and the challenges for
         global policy and regulation
Sophia KAITATZI-WHITLOCK

12:30   Lunch

14:00   The fluidity of text, intellectual 
honesty, and search engines as academic sources
         Fernando PARAGAS

15:00   Search engines as academic sources: How 
has scientific work changed in Asia and Europe?
CHANG Yun-Ke

16:00   Tea and coffee

16:30   Discussion: Joint publication and further 
coordinated research with teams in Europe and Asia.
Moderated by ANG Peng Hwa & Marcel MACHILL

17:30   End of workshop


This Asia-Europe Workshop is organized with the 
financial assistance of ASEF and the European 
Alliance for Asian Studies (main sponsors). The 
organizers also wish to thank the 
Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. The views expressed 
in this workshop are those of the organizers and 
participants and can therefore in no way be taken 
to reflect the official opinion of ASEF, Asia Alliance or FES.


LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Singapore
Prof. Dr. ANG Peng Hwa is the Dean of the Wee Kim 
Wee School of Communication and Information at 
Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. He 
has published extensively on the regulation of 
new media and on media literacy in the digital world.

Prof. Dr. Eddie Kuo is Professor at Wee Kim Wee 
School of Communication and Information at 
Nanyang Technological University. Prof Kuo is 
also Advisor to the Singapore Internet Research 
Center (SiRC) at the School of Communication and 
Information at Nanyang Technological University.

Assistant Prof. Dr. CHANG Yun-Ke is Assistant 
Professor at the School of Communication and 
Information at Nanyang Technological University. 
Her research areas include digital image 
retrieval, instructional design, human visual 
perception, learning organization and knowledge management.

Germany
Prof. Dr. Marcel MACHILL, MPA (Harvard) is a 
tenured professor of journalism and international 
media systems at the University of Leipzig. His 
research focuses on search engines and media 
policy as well as on implications on journalism. 
He serves as project coordinator.

Markus BEILER is an assistant professor at the 
Chair of Journalism II at Leipzig University. He 
is going to complete his PhD thesis on news search engines in winter 2007/08.

Japan
Prof. Dr. Nobuo SAITO is the Associate Chair for 
Asia of the World Wide Web Consortium. He is also 
the Dean of the Faculty of Global Media Studies 
at Komazawa University in Tokyo. He is an expert 
in developing international standards for the WWW.

France
Prof. Dr. Divina FRAU-MEIGS, a Fulbright scholar, 
is professor of American studies and media 
sociology at the Université Paris 3-Sorbonne, 
France. With degrees from the Sorbonne 
University, Stanford University and the Annenberg 
School for Communications (University of 
Pennsylvania), she is a specialist of media and 
information technologies in English-speaking 
countries, in a comparative perspective.

South-Korea
Dr. Han Woo PARK is an Assistant Professor in the 
Department of Communication & Information, 
YeungNam University, South Korea where he focuses 
on various computer-mediated communication 
issues, in particular on the use of new 
communication technologies in extending social 
networks and the role of communication in 
scientific, technical, and innovative activities.

Yeon-ok LEE is a Graduate Researcher at the 
Department of Politics & International Relations, 
Royal Holloway, University of London

Greece
Dr. Sophia KAITATZI-WHITLOCK is Assistant 
Professor at the Department of Journalism and 
Mass Communications at the Aristotle University 
of Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a Doctorate in 
Communication from the University of Westminster, 
London (1996). She has researched and published 
extensively in Europe and in the US on 
audiovisual policy-making in the European Union 
and is now transferring this work to the digital sector and to search engines.

China
Associate Prof. Dr. Louis LEUNG is the Director 
of the Centre for Communication Research at the 
School of Journalism of the Chinese University of 
Hong Kong. He has published extensively on the 
impact of the Internet and mobile phone in China.

Philippines
Fernando PARAGAS (Ph.D. Ohio, 2006) is Chair and 
Assistant Professor (on study leave) of 
Communication Research at the University of the 
Philippines where he also earned his BA degree in 
Communication Research and MA degree in Urban and 
Regional Planning. He works on the transnational 
telecommunication networks of overseas Filipino 
workers. He has also written about mobile 
telephony from the perspectives of the digital 
divide, political mobilization, and the public sphere.


Denmark
Prof. Dr. Klaus Bruhn JENSEN, Department of 
Media, Cognition, and Communication, Division of 
Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen. 
Offices, posts and consultancies (selected): 
Corresponding Editor, European Journal of Communication, since 1999.




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