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[ecrea] CFP of UCMeCSA 3rd Biannual Conference - Digital China: Media and Social Change

Fri Aug 31 20:48:55 GMT 2018




We are happy to invite you to participate in our biannual conference held at the University of Leicester on 16th January 2019. Please find the CFP below.

Many thanks.

King regards,
UCMeCSA


Call for Papers

*Digital China: Media and Social Change*

/UK-China Media and Cultural Studies Association 3rd Biannual Conference

//16th January 2019, School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester (UK)/

UK-China Media and Cultural Studies Association and School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester invite postgraduate students, early-career researchers, and activists to submit proposals for our 3rd biennial conference at the University of Leicester.


The theme of this conference is “Digital China: Media and Social Change”. The conference will focus on the impact of digital media on the construction of China’s political, economic, cultural, and social fields. It explores the role of digital media in different aspects of Chinese society and Chinese everyday lives. It also seeks to understand media development in China and comprehensively demonstrate the revolution that has created the brand-new face of Chinese society over recent decades in the wake of new media.

China has experienced a dramatic information and communication revolution in the past few years. Although China’s case is not exceptional in the global trend of digitalisation, it does have its own characteristics. Hong (2016) argues that the speed, scope and scale of growth and development of both the Internet and social media make China receive more attention. An increasing body of scholarship has examined the implications of such digital revolution in relation to civic/political engagement (e.g. Liu, 2017; Wan, 2017; Zhang et al., 2018), social justice (e.g. Chang, 2018), social interaction (e.g. Xu et al., 2015; Chan, 2018), and business (e.g. Luo et al., 2015; Boardman et al., 2018). However, as changes and developments are still continuing in Chinese society as well as the digital media landscape; UCMeCSA aims to organise this academic biennial-conference to invite scholars whose research relates to the above aspects to further contribute to the debate and provide up-to-date knowledge about more recent phenomena. In particular, we encourage submissions to be consistent with, but not limited to the following specific areas:

   *   Digital culture in China
   *   Digital media activism and civic/political engagement in China
  *   Digital media and social justice (class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, ability, etc.) in China   *   Digital media and the changing pattern of social interaction in China
   *   Digital media and the development of consumerism in China
  *   Methodological concerns in studying digital media and digital culture in the Chinese context

Papers may approach the topics from theoretical, conceptual, and/or empirical positions.

Please send your abstract to (ucmecsa2019 /at/ gmail.com)<mailto:(ucmecsa2019 /at/ gmail.com)> by 30th of September 2018. Individual abstracts should be up to 250 words. Panel proposals should include a short description and rationale (200 words) together with abstracts for each of the 3-4 papers (150-200 words each including details of the contributor), and the name and contact details of the panel proposer. Panel slots are one hour long. You will receive a notification from the conference organisers confirming whether your abstract has been accepted by the 12th October 2018.

The deadline for the submission of full papers is the 4th of January 2019. The submission of a full paper is desirable but not obligatory for conference participants. It is required in order to be considered for the special issue publication. A selection of papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of Networking Knowledge, the journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, depending on whether a sufficient number of high quality papers are received. We would like to encourage delegates to write up the full version of their papers. We look forward to your abstracts.

For any queries, please contact Wei Cui (wc88 /at/ le.ac.uk) (wc88 /at/ le.ac.uk) <mailto:(wc88 /at/ le.ac.uk)>and Yuxin Liu (Yuxin.Liu /at/ uea.ac.uk) (Yuxin.Liu /at/ uea.ac.uk) <mailto:(Yuxin.Liu /at/ uea.ac.uk)>.




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References:
Boardman, R., Cano, M.B. and Deng, S. (2018) ‘Marketing to Chinese Millennials: Weibo as A Marketing Tool For Luxury Brands’, Global Marketing Conference. Tokyo, Japan, 26-29 July. Tokyo: Elsevier, pp. 441-442.

Chan, L.S. (2018) ‘Liberating or Disciplining? A Technofeminist Analysis of the use of Dating Apps Among Women in Urban China’, Communication Culture & Critique, 11(2), pp.298-314.

Chang, J., Ren, H. and Yang, Q. (2018). ‘A virtual gender asylum? The social media profile picture, young Chinese women’s self-empowerment, and the emergence of a Chinese digital feminism”, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 21(3), pp.325-340.

Hong, J. (2017) ‘Social media in China: An unprecedented force for an unprecedented social change?’,Telematics and Informatics, 3(34), pp.691-693.

Liu, B. (2017) Social Media Use and Political Participation in China: The Mediating Role of Political Efficacy. PhD thesis. University of South Florida. Available athttp://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8247&context=etd (Accessed: 19 August 2018)

Luo, N., Zhang, M. and Liu, W. (2015) ‘The effects of value co-creation practices on building harmonious brand community and achieving brand loyalty on social media in China’, Computers in Human Behavior, 48(1), pp.492-499.

Wan, X.A. (2017) ‘A Study of Political Participation in New Media Environment Among Chinese Citizens’, in Xie, Y. (eds.) New Media and China's Social Development. Singapore: Springer, pp.47-71.

Xu, J., Kang, Q., Song, Z. and Clarke, C.P. (2015) ‘Applications of mobile social media: WeChat among academic libraries in China’, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 41(1), pp.21-30.

Zhang, S., Li, Y., Hao, Y. and Zhang, Y. (2018) ‘Does public opinion affect air quality? Evidence based on the monthly data of 109 prefecture-level cities in China’, Energy Policy, 116(1), pp.299-311.


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