[Commlist] IAMCR Preconference: Digital Governance and Transcultural Communication

*IAMCR Pre-Conference Program*

*Digital Governance and Transcultural Communications***

Organised by

School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University

IAMCR Public Service Media Policies Working Group

Contact emails

Yik Chan Chin, (yik-chan.chin /at/ bnu.edu.cn) <mailto:(yik-chan.chin /at/ bnu.edu.cn)>

Fiona Martin, (fiona.martin /at/ sydney.edu.au) <mailto:(fiona.martin /at/ sydney.edu.au)>

Friday, 8 July 2022

| 08:00 - 21:40 Beijing time

| 11:00 - 02:40 (Sat) Sydney time

| 00:00 - 13:40 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

| 20:00 (Thurs)- 09:40 (Friday) US Eastern Daylight Time

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Language: English and Chinese (simultaneous interpretations provided)

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*Platform: ZOOM*

*https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85043164310?pwd=dUkZWdl4UCLWLymGzcsr007oFL9qin.1 
<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85043164310?pwd=dUkZWdl4UCLWLymGzcsr007oFL9qin.1>*

*Meeting ID**：**850 4316 4310*

*Password**：**373761*


Conference Website: https://iamcr.org/beijing2022/digital-governance 
<https://iamcr.org/beijing2022/digital-governance>

Sponsor:

BNU Internet Institute

*Theme ***

Governance of digital and internet technologies involves a complex 
series of actions carried out in cross-territorial space by multiple 
stakeholders, transversing huge cultural, political, economic, and 
social differences. Alongside international internet governance bodies 
such as ICANN, new models for governance of digital communications 
platforms have emerged in recent years including the European 
Commission’s Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech and the 
Facebook Oversight Board. However, at the moment, there is an absence of 
a single international standard-setting body for digital communications 
or a unified framework for governing digital public goods. Competition 
and contests over issues like privacy, data colonialism, cybersecurity, 
and access to internet infrastructure have exacerbated trade, economic 
and political tensions, and have also significantly affected transborder 
and transcultural communication flows.

This one-day hybrid preconference aims to explore policy and governance 
strategies emerging from the development and use of digital 
communications technologies and their impacts on transcultural 
communications, with a focus on the themes of neo-globalization, 
digitalisation, and platformisation.

It seeks to address some fundamental questions that may help in 
strengthening digital governance approaches and facilitating safe, 
productive, and inclusive transcultural communications:

  * What are the critical contests around digital governance of
    transnational and transcultural communications platforms? How do
    they exemplify differences in values and ethics between key
    stakeholders?
  * What are the crucial components of digital governance strategies,
    and how are these evolving in light of platformisation?
  * How can existing institutional, and largely national, models of
    communications governance adapt to this new context? To what extent
    are new, international models of governance addressing transcultural
    communications?
  * What are the best practice examples of new digital governance
    modalities working in the public interest? How might these benefit
    public institutions, such as public service media

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*Schedule of the conference***

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*8:15-8:30 am (**Beijing time); 00:15- 00:30 am (UTC)***

*Opening *

Hosts of IAMCR 2022 Conference

Professor Hongzhong Zhang, Dean, School of Journalism and Communication, 
Beijing Normal University

Prof. Fiona Martin & Prof.Anis Rahman, Co-Chairs, IAMCR Public Service 
Media Policies Working Group

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*8:30-9:00 am (**Beijing time); 00:30 – 01:00 am (UTC)***

*Keynote Speech*

Professor Ang Peng Hwa

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang 
Technological University, Singapore

*9:00 am - 10:50 am (Beijing Time); 01:00 – 02:50 am (UTC)*

*Panel 1: Governance strategies for safe, inclusive digital 
transcultural communications *

Moderator: Professor Ming Zhou, Beijing Normal University

*Speakers: ***

1.Digital Repertoire of Mongolian Young People and Transcultural 
Implications

/Dr. Undrah Baasanjav, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville /

/Dr. Iderjargal Dashdondog, National University of Mongolia/

/Dr. Unursaikhan Tugj, National University of Mongolia /

/Dr. Ariunzaya Norovsuren, National University of Mongolia /

/Dr. Bayarmaa Boldbaatar, National University of Mongolia /

/Dr. Mendkhuu Ganbaatar, National University of Mongolia/

//

2.Pressing the Regulatory Button: Subject Relationship and Power 
Interaction in Didi's Regulatory Practice from the Perspective of 
Stakeholders

/Professor Jinghong Xu, Beijing Normal University, China /

/Bei Liu  Beijing Normal University, China /

/Yuhang Yuan Beijing Normal University, China /

 3. Legislative discourse of industrial digitalisation in the European
    Union and China: a sociosemiotic perspective

/Furui Wang, //School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, 
Hangzhou, China, /*//*

//

4."Transcultural and Transnational Communication Values: Further 
Suggestions for Minimum Principles as a Common Ground"

/Dr. Anthony Löwstedt, Webster Vienna Private University, Austria /

/Dr. Natalia Hatarova, //Webster Vienna Private University, Austria/

*Open Discussion***

**

*11:00 am to 12:50 pm (Beijing Time); 03:00 – 04:50 am (UTC)*

*Panel 2: Governance of digital communications market access, standards 
and structures *

Moderator: Dr. Rui Wang ,  Beijing Normal University, China

*Speakers: *

 1. Digital Platform’s Personal Information Protection and Antitrust
    Regulatory Boundary

/Dr. He Qing, Beijing Post Communication University /

/Dr. Yik-Chan Chin, Beijing Normal University, China /

 2. Multidimensional Perspective, Scientific Connotation and Chinese
    Practice of Digital Governance

/Professor Tao Li, Beijing Normal University, China /

//

3.Content of movies and web series of OTT platforms in India and 
controversies related to wrong representation of Indian culture – Case study

/Dr. Swati Jaywant Rao Bute//, //Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal - 
India**/

4.The standardisation of lawful interception technologies in the 3GPP: 
interrogating 5G and surveillance amid US-China competition

/Dr Niels ten Oever - University of Amsterdam, Netherland /

*Open Discussion***

**

**the conference will resume at 18:00 pm Beijing Time / 10:00 am UTC *

**

*18:00 pm - 19:50 pm (Beijing Time); 10:00-11:50 am (UTC)*

**

*Panel 3: Digital governance of the AI *

Moderator: Dr. Qian Li, Beijing Normal University

*Speakers: *

 1. AI Technologies and Public Opinion: Social bots in global politics

/Dr. Fei Shen, City University of Hong Kong, China/

//

 2. Transparency of Government  Media Information and Social Emotions in
    Public Health Emergencies

/Prof. Ye Wu, Beijing Normal University, China/

//

 3. Dark Web: the regulated and the (self) regulation

/Prof. Xiaofan Liu, City University of Hong Kong, China /

//

 4. Digital Governance by the Generalized Other

/Dr. José Alarcón, Universidad de Educación a Distancia, Spain/

*Open Discussion*

*20:00 pm - 21:30 pm (Beijing time); 12:00 – 13:30 pm (UTC)***

*Panel 4: Digital Governance and Public Service Media in an Age of 
Platformisation *

Moderator: Prof. Fiona Martin, Sydney University, Australia

*Speakers: ***

1.Another Media System is Possible: Ripping Open the Overton Window from 
Platforms to Public Broadcasting

/Professor Victor Pickard/ 
<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/victor-pickard-phd>/ , 
Annenberg, University of Pennsylvania, USA/

2.Digital Public Spheres: New Life for an Old Debate?

/Professor Terry Flew 
<https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/terry-flew.html>//, 
University of Sydney, Australia/

3.Platform power and public service broadcasting

/Erik N. Martin/ <https://fas.org/expert/erik-martin/>/, //FAS Impact 
Fellow/ <https://fas.org/expert/erik-martin/>/ and DayOne Project, USA/

4.Video on demand and the future of public service media

/Dr Maria Michalis 
<https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/researcher/885zy/dr-maria-michalis>//, 
University of Westminster, UK///

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5.Decolonizing the internet? The ground up publics in digital 
infrastructures and data governance

/Dr Anis Rahman/ <https://com.uw.edu/people/faculty/anis-rahman/>/, 
University of Washington, USA/

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*Open Discussion*

*21:30 – 21:40 pm (Beijing time) 13:30 am – 13:40 am (UTC)*

*Closing Remarks: Synthesis and Outlook*

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