[ecrea] Call for participants: the 4th Europe-China Dialogue Media and Communication Studies Summer School

*Call for Participants*

*The 4th Europe-China Dialogue: *

*Media and Communication Studies Summer School*

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

http://www.euchinamediadialoguesummerschool.usi.ch/home 
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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, Beijing 
between 10/07/2017 and 19/07/2017. 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 by the ECREA Doctoral Summer School, the main learning format 
is due to 3 parts:

*1) Lectures*:**

*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. 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 Yinchuan 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.

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*2) 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;

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*3) 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.


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.


*3 ECTs*will be granted to those students who participated the whole 
program, and we will only enroll *30 student participants* to the 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.

The admission fee of the summer school is 600 euros (with accommodation 
near PKU campus, 09/07-19/07) 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.


*Organizers: *

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

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

*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)>


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