Call for Participants: The Shenzhen Forum 2019
December 11, 2018
Building upon the model used for the biennial NCA-CUC Conference on Communication, Media, and Governance in the Age of Globalization (held in Beijing in 2016, 2018, and forthcoming in 2020), the 2019 Shenzhen Forum will bring together scholars and media practitioners from around the world to engage in conversations about cutting-edge communication-based issues.
The Forum is co-sponsored by NCA and the Shenzhen University (SZU) of China, and will be held in Shenzhen, China, June 26-28, 2019.
The Forum will include three “tracks”:
- Experiments in Communication Innovation, led by Dr. Rolien Susanne Hoyng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, rolienhoyng@cuhk.edu.hk (the NCA representative), and Dr. Chen Changfeng, Tsinghua University, fengchen5266@163.com (the SZU representative).
- Intersections in New Media and Health Communication, led by Dr. Yuqiong Zhou, Shenzhen University, yuqiongzhou@126.com (the SZU representative), and Dr. Amy Hasinoff, CU Denver, amy.hasinoff@ucdenver.edu (the NCA representative).
- The Digital Journalism Challenge, led by Dr. Qingwen Dong, University of the Pacific, qdong@pacific.edu (the NCA representative) and Xiaojin Gu, Shenzhen University, gxj@szu.edu.cn (the SZU representative).
Learn more about each of the tracks, the application process, and the schedule here. Please direct questions to Stephen Hartnett at Stephen.hartnett@ucdenver.edu.