[Commlist] CFP: Chinese News Discourse: Nottingham Ningbo

*Call for Abstracts*

*Chinese News Discourse in the Digital Era*

*University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 13-14 June 2024*

We are pleased to announce the conference under the theme “Chinese News 
Discourse in the Digital Era” will take place on Thursday 13 and Friday 
14 June 2024 at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), 
co-organised with Department of Literary and Translation Studies, School 
of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

*News Discourse in the Digital Era *

Following the first conference in June 2019 under the theme News 
Discourse and Translation (culminating the edited volume published by 
Routledge Chinese News Discourse: From Perspectives of Communication, 
Linguistics and Pedagogy 
<https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003032984/chinese-news-discourse-nancy-xiuzhi-liu-candace-veecock-shixin-ivy-zhang?_gl=1*stiety*_ga*NDg4Njc4NTQ4LjE2MTk0MDE4ODU.*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTcwMzcyOTgzNy4yLjEuMTcwMzczMDI1OC4wLjAuMA..&_ga=2.159954745.507280285.1703729837-488678548.1619401885>, 
this second session happens at a time when the world is faced with 
unprecedented new challenges and opportunities after the COVID-19 
pandemic and digitalization at various fronts. Technologically, with AI 
and VR technology becoming ubiquitous and omnipresent, dissemination of 
news has embarked on another era with digitalization as the key. 
Politically, in contexts of borderless news or globalization (or 
de-globalization), news discourse plays an indispensable role by 
disseminating meaning that is manufactured, constructed, or negotiated 
by news workers plus the general public over the course of presentation 
or representation. This new era characterized by highly interactive and 
customized news stories further reinforces changes in the way news 
discourse to be perceived and consumed. Furthermore, machine translation 
or various AI tools have facilitated the instantaneity of news flow 
around the world by simultaneously addressing members of different 
linguistic and cultural communities through the Internet and mobile apps 
or gadgets invisible. It will undoubtedly serve to intensify, reduce, or 
mediate the opposition and interaction between the global and the local. 
Against this backdrop, news dissemination manifested in news discourse 
calls for investigations from the academia from more perspectives with 
more interdisciplinary approaches.

*Call for papers *

We invite contributions from researchers working within any theoretical 
and methodological or practical perspectives who are interested in the 
intersection between news media, discourse, language, culture and 
communication, as well as translation to this conference. You will have 
20-minute oral presentations that report original research related to 
the following themes of the conference that include, but are not limited to:

§Globalization or localization of news discourse

§News discourse and interaction

§Multi-disciplinary approaches to news language

§News dissemination through social media

§Discourse analysis of news story

§News discourse and context

§News discourse and intercultural communication

§News discourse and translation

§News reporting and pedagogy

§News reporting and technology

*Keynote speakers*:

  * Professor Binhua Wang, Chair/Professor of Interpreting and
    Translation Studies, University of Leeds
  * Professor Pan Li, Professor in Media Translation Studies, Guangdong
    University of Foreign Studies
  * Dr Xianwen Kuang, Associate Professor in Journalism, Xi’an
    Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  * Dr Wan Hu, Associate Professor in Translation Studies, Xi’an
    Jiaotong-Liverpool University

*Submission of Abstracts*

Anonymous abstracts not exceeding 300 words (excluding references) 
should be sent to Chinese News Discourse 
<(NewsDiscourse /at/ nottingham.edu.cn) 
<mailto:(NewsDiscourse /at/ nottingham.edu.cn)>> as attachment in Word or PDF 
format. Names, affiliation of the author(s) together with a bio (80 
words) should be included in the accompanying email. See more, 
https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/humanities-and-social-sciences/schools-and-department/education-and-english/research/chinese-news-discourse-in-the-digital-era.aspx 
<https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/humanities-and-social-sciences/schools-and-department/education-and-english/research/chinese-news-discourse-in-the-digital-era.aspx> 


*Important dates*:

  * Deadline for abstract submission: *31 March 2024*
  * Notification sent to applicants: *15 April 2024*
  * Registration for conference opens: *31 March 2024*

*Conference fee*: 400RMB, 200RMB for students

*Note*: Selected works will be invited to submit full paper for 
publication in edited volume or special issue of peer-reviewed journal 
after the conference.

*Organising Committee*

  * Dr Nancy Liu, Associate Professor, School of Education and English, 
UNNC
  * Dr Ivy Zhang, Associate Professor, School of International
    Communications, UNNC
  * Dr Troy Chen, Senior Lecturer in Media, City, University of London
  * Dr Wan Hu, Associate Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  * Mr Weijian Huang, PhD candidate, School of Education and English, UNNC


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