[ecrea] Call for Papers on China's Media Today

>Call for Papers
>
>Changes and Challenges:  Chinas Media Today
>University of Westminster
>12 June 2008
>
>Continuing rapid changes in China mean that the 
>media are confronted everyday with new problems 
>and new challenges.  Last December Liaoning 
>Publishing became the first media corporation to 
>float its editorial business on the stock market 
>opening the possibility of eventual changes in 
>the ownership of Chinese media.  This year sees 
>the Olympic Games, which will bring thousands of 
>foreign journalists to China for the first time 
>and place China in the world spotlight in a way 
>that has never been true before.  Already, since 
>the start of 2007, foreign journalists working 
>in China have had more freedom to travel and 
>report, and the government says this is likely 
>to continue after the Games.  At the same time, 
>restrictions on domestic reporting, for example 
>on the Internet, continue to be tight and some 
>people talk about a collapse of investigative journalism in China.
>The way the media both inside and outside China 
>report on the economy and society is changing 
>all the time.  This one-day conference aims to 
>discuss the current situation both in the 
>Chinese media and foreign reporting of 
>China.  Abstracts and papers are invited on any 
>aspect of the media  press, broadcasting, film, 
>the Internet  both inside China and 
>internationally.  Possible themes include, but are not limited to:
>
>                    Media and the Olympic Games
>                    The social impact of the media
>                    Is investigative journalism still relevant?
>                    Online communities and journalism
>                    Politicians, politics, and journalism
>                    Media representations in China and of China
>                    Media, social justice and professional ethics
>                    Social values, intellectual 
> discourses, and Chinese identity
>                    Media and the cultural industries
>
>The working language of the conference will be English.
>
>Send abstracts of between 250 and 500 words by 
>email to <mailto:(jingrongtong /at/ yahoo.com)>Dr Tong 
>Jingrong at the China Media Centre, University 
>of Westminster by 1 March 2008.
>
>
>The University of Westminster is a charity and a 
>company limited by guarantee. Registration 
>number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.

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