[ecrea] Europe-China Dialogue: Media and Communication Studies Summer School / Call for applications

The 4th Europe-China Dialogue:

Media and Communication Studies Summer School

Beijing, China  (10/07-19/07, 2017)

After the successful experience in the past three years, the China Media 
Observatory of Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in cooperation 
with School of Journalism and Communication of Peking University, will 
operate the FOURTH edition of Europe-China Dialogue: Media and 
Communication Studies Summer School at Peking University between 
10/07/2017 and 19/07/2017.

The program is open to the full variety of academic work from the field 
of communication and media studies for scholars at their early academic 
careers, PhD students and master students who have strong academic 
interests. It aims to bring together researchers from Europe, China, and 
North America in order to debate contemporary issues in media, 
communication, political economy and cultural studies. This year, the 
Summer School is specifically themed to discuss the challenges posed by 
the digitalization of the media sphere and the new trends in global 
communication.

Inspired from the ECREA Doctoral Summer School, this summer school aims 
to provide: a high qualified international setting where professors from 
Europe, China and the United States will present and discuss their 
updated research work; and a high supportive international setting where 
students participants can present their ongoing work, receive feedbacks 
on their current or future research projects from international experts 
and meet students and academics from other countries, establishing 
valuable contacts for the future.

The main learning format of the summer school is due to 3 parts:

Lectures: each of the invited professors and scholars will give a talk 
according to their recent research focus (all in English). Proposed 
topics will include:

Western Faculty:

Prof. Giuseppe Richeri, New Trends in Global Film Industry, Università 
della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland;

Prof. Daniel Perrin, Professional text production and the digital 
literacy shift: From focused writing to writing by-the-way, Zurich 
University of Applied Science, Winterthur, Switzerland

Prof. Daya Thussu,  BRICS and Shifting Paradigms of Global 
Communication; International News in the ‘post-truth’ era, University of 
Westminster, London, UK;

Prof. Matthew Hibberd, Communicating Climate Change, Università della 
Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland;

Prof. Gabriele Balbi, History of digital media: main global trends, 
Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland;

Prof. Natalie  Coulter, The Globalization of Children's Culture in the 
Chinese Context,York University, Toronto, Canada;

Dr. Emma Lupano, Chinese Journalists Values in a Global Media Sphere, 
University of Milan, Milan, Italy;

Dr. Gianluigi Negro A Plea for the Internet Histories, Università della 
Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland;

Dr. Zhan Zhang When Narrative Meets Network: Tracing International News 
In A Digital World, University of Southern California, USA.

Chinese Faculty:

Prof. Jack Linchuan Qiu, Goodbye iSlave: Toward a Sustainable Digital 
Economy

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;

Prof. Xigen  LI, Studying New Media with a Social Science Approach, City 
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;

Prof. HU Yong, When Chinese Internet is no longer Anonymous, Peking 
University, Beijing;

Prof. LU Shaoyang, New Development of Chinese Film Industry, Peking 
University, Beijing;

Prof. JIANG Fei, Mapping or Remapped: Intercultural Interpretation of 
China Media-Going-Out-Policy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing;

Prof. GUO Zhenzhi, Chinese Media: History and Current Development, 
Tsinghua University, Beijing;

Prof. SHI Anbin, From NWICO, WSIS to UNM: Remapping the Topography for 
Global Communication, Tsinghua University, Beijing;

Prof. HU Baijing, The Internet, Crisis Communication and Social 
Identity, Renmin University University, Beijing;

Prof. CHEN Kaihe, Searching for Mutual Understanding: China’s Practices 
in International Public Relations, Peking University, Beijing;

Prof. LIU Xinchuan, New Media & Risk Society, Peking University, Beijing.

Prof. Xu Jing, Strategic Risk Communication on Food Safety in China, 
Peking University, Beijing.

Students Feedback Workshops: participant students will present their 
research projects and receive structured, qualified and multi-voiced 
feedback on their work from summer school lecturers and students, which 
allow students to improve the quality of their academic work 
theoretically and structurally, stimulate their further research interests;

Media Dialogue:

Two dialogues with media experts from European and Chinese media 
organizations will be set in the Summer School. In some cases, when 
possible, the Dialogue will be arranged on site at the media 
organization, where students can personally observe the media practice.

We will only enroll 30 student participants to the program. The 
composition of selected students will be ideally (but not limited to) 
half from Chinese institutions and half from European and other 
institutions from other places of the world. 3 ECTs will be granted to 
those students who participated the whole program.

To apply: All participants are required to send an abstract (up to 500 
words) of their research projects before 01/05/2017 to 
(chinamediaobservatory /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(chinamediaobservatory /at/ gmail.com)>. The confirmation of acceptance 
will be sent by 15/05/2017, and the full-draft of research project 
should be sent before 15/06/2017.

Admission fee and payment:

The admission fee of the summer school is 600 euros (with accommodation) 
or 300 euros (without accommodation), which includes the participation 
of the whole program, one day-tour in Beijing, and one farewell dinner. 
If student needs accommodation during their stay in Beijing, you should 
send a notice together with the abstract before 01/05/2017.

Two scholarships award will be given to the best student participants, 
and the Summer School admission fee will be waived for the winners. The 
Summer School Scientific Committee will also recommend the winners to 
the Swiss-Excellence Scholarship 2017-2018.

Organizers:

China Media Observatory at USI: http://www.chinamediaobs.org/

School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University: 
http://sjc.pku.edu.cn/English.aspx

Sponsor:

BlueFuture PR Consulting, China

Institutional Contributors:

UK-China Media and Cultural Studies Association (UCMeCSA), United Kingdom.

Department of Applied Linguistics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences 
(ZHAW), Switzerland.

US-China Institute, University of Southern California (USC), the United 
States.

Confucius Institute, University of Milan.

Contact:

Dr. Zhan Zhang, Project Manager in Europe/America (zhanz /at/ usc.edu) 
<mailto:(zhanz /at/ usc.edu)>

Prof. Xu Jing, Project Manager in China/Asia (xujing /at/ pku.edu.cn) 
<mailto:(xujing /at/ pku.edu.cn)>


<mailto:(xujing /at/ pku.edu.cn)>

http://www.euchinamediadialoguesummerschool.usi.ch/



*Gianluigi Negro*


Post doc reseacher at Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
Faculty of Communication Sciences
Assistant Editor at China Media Observatory

	

	

	

	

	

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