[ecrea] Social Media, Regualtion and Freedom of Expression

Call for Abstracts

“Social Media, Regulation and Freedom of Expression: A comparative 
perspective”

A workshop organized by HKBU and Tsinghua University

Communication & Visual Arts Building, Hong Kong Baptist University

Hong Kong, 23-24 May, 2013



Abstract submission deadline: 1 April 2013

Social media are marked by features of convergence, participation, 
openness and the transcendence of national borders. The growth of social 
media not only poses challenges to traditional media policy- and 
regulation-making, which are based on the type of medium and on national 
borders, it also triggers new legal issues of both a criminal and civil 
nature around the world.



Despite the fact that China has the world’s largest Internet population 
and possesses a rapidly expanding social media sector, the policy and 
regulatory implications of social media are under-researched in the 
academic literature. This calls for analysis from a comparative and 
multi-disciplinary perspective.



The Department of Journalism at the Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong 
Kong), and School of Journalism and Communication at the Tsinghua 
University (Beijing, China), with the support of the Chiang Ching-kuo 
Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taiwan, are pleased to 
invites abstract for their 2013 workshop on Social Media, Regulation and 
Freedom of Expression: A comparative perspective. The workshop aims to 
address the key issue of the advent of social media for media policy and 
legal regulatory issues, particularly with regard to freedom of 
expression, access and service provision, content, privacy and data 
protection. We are seeking presentations and panel discussions from 
legal, regulatory, and media experts, journalists, and human rights NGOs 
from different jurisdictions, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, the 
USA, and Britain.

Speakers include:

Professor Kyu Ho Youm, the Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair 
Professor at the University of Oregon

Mr. Peter Noorlander, Chief Executive, Media Legal Defence Initiative

Professor Chan Chenfeng, School of Journalism and Communication, 
Tsinghua University, Beijing

Dr. Yik Chan Chin, Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University





Abstracts are invited that address topics which include, but are not 
limited to:

1) Balancing between freedom of expression and social media regulation

2) Social media access and service provision

3) Social media content

4) Defamation, privacy and data protection

5) Security and identity

6) Impacts of social media on the economics of information

7) Role of social media in a transitional society

8) Jurisdiction and Applicable law



Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be 
submitted to (jourworkshop /at/ hkbu.edu.hk) by 1 April 2013. Please write 
2013Workshop: YOUR NAME in the subject line. Accepted presenters will be 
notified by 15 April, 2013. Registration Fee: HKD 200 (students); HKD 
900 (others). Details on booking accommodation will follow on acceptance 
of your proposal.


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