The city is a physical entity, a place of human inhabitation and a center of economy, politics and culture. The city represents a network of interaction and communication, and the indicator of human living conditions and the pattern of their relationships as well.

From the beginning, communication and the city associated with each other, constituting an integral co-structural relationship. The city changes in time and space, which in turn restructures the communicative and interactive relationships. The significant change of interaction and communication pattern, is undoubtedly adjustment and representation of the city and its internal and external relations. In short, the city is the carrier and network of interaction and communication which  is the pattern of the city and its resident’s living. Therefore, the research of the city and its resident cannot go without the perspectives of interaction and communication.

In the current context of globalization, digitalization and informatization, re-assessing the relationship between the city and interaction and communication, is not only a practical and significant subject concerning human existence but the cornerstone of communication theory and practice as well.

The Center for Information and Communication Studies, Fudan University, will focus on “urban communication” in its future research, re-examining the relationship between communication, the city and human beings, in order to fulfill three purposes: On the level of social function, to help build up “communicable city”; on the level of humanity idea, to contemplate human living conditions and problems in modern cities from the perspective of communication; on the level of disciplinary level, to build a new theoretical ground of communication research, connecting humanities and social science based on of communication.

The theme of “Communication and China • Fudan Forum” (2011) is determined as

Interaction and Communication: The City in Transition

“Communication and China • Fudan Forum” (2011) calls for papers from domestic and foreign scholars. In view of the wide scope of the topic, we suggest three dimensions so as to make our discussion more focused and to the point.

1. Interaction and communication as the main function of the city. For example: the relationship between interaction and communication and different urban groups; urban communication and political and economic changes in cities; public crisis communication and urban governance; community communication and neighborhood; information monitoring, public security and civil rights; urban change and building up urban media systems; interaction and communication and urban cultural identity.
2. The city as the network of interaction and communication, for example, urban space presented by interaction and communication; virtual and physical urban space and interaction and communication; transition in ways of communication and relationships and urban change; the expression of ideas in urban architecture; urban lifestyle and cultural heritage in interaction and communication; the relationship between suburban and urban distribution and interaction; political relations in urban interaction and communication; urban markets, commodity exchange and interpersonal interaction.
3. Interaction and communication as the way of city residents’ existence, for example: the transition of interaction and communication and human existential experience; interaction and communication and people’s perception of the city; urban interaction and communication and people’s daily life, urban interaction and communication and manifestation of Renqing, urban interaction and communication and individual subjectivity.

The title of the paper can be decided by the author. One can choose whatever research orientation, methodology and approach one finds appropriate. All submissions must be based on empirical evidence and not purely descriptive narrative. Empty talk should be avoided.

Date: December 28-30, 2011 in Shanghai, China

Deadline: October 31, 2011

Email: cics@fudan.edu.cn

Phone: 86-21-65643743

Fax; 86-21-65643743

中国传媒中心年会

中国软实力

英国威斯敏斯特大学 中国人民大学

伦敦 威斯敏斯特大学 摄政校区 2010年4月8/9日

中国经济实力的迅猛增长已悄然更新了中国的国际影响力。奥巴马的中国之行，G2格局的有效建立都印证着这样一个得到国际普遍认同的事实：今天，中国正在世界经济格局中扮演着核心角色。追溯历史，经济实力的腾飞总是伴随着国际文化影响力的提升——足球，好莱坞以及卡拉OK都是便随着大国经济腾飞而走向世界的 “舶来品”。毫无疑问，中国的经济地位将会同样影响中国文化的全球传播。

中国及世界各国都已认识到了这一趋势。中国政府推出了“走出去”的战略，旨在全球推广中国语言、传播中国文化、发展中国媒体。同时，曾满足于向西方购买节目或模仿西方节目样式的中国的广播电视界，今日也正蓄势进军国际市场，他们的角色已悄然变为卖家。

我们热诚的欢迎诸位共同关注这一动人心魄的进程。本届年会我们有幸请来：

演讲人：李希光 清华大学

清华大学校务委员、新闻与传播学院常务副院长、国际传播研究中心主任、艾滋病综合研究中心副主任、健康传播研究所所长、巴基斯坦文化传播研究中心主任、教育部新闻学科教学指导委员会副主任、联合国教科文组织中国新闻教育专家组召集人。兼任军事科学院三战论坛研究员、国防大学三战中心专家、中国疾病预防控制中心性病艾滋病专家。曾任新华社高级记者、《华盛顿邮报》科学记者、哈佛大学新闻政治与公共政策中心研究员、联合国教科文组织丝绸之路青年学者、中国科学院理论物理所研究实习员。近期撰写或主编的专著有：《走出媒体污名》、《发言人教程》、《控烟报道读本》、《人权报道读本》、《转型中的新闻学》、《软力量与全球传播》、《艾滋病媒体读本》等。曾在《华盛顿邮报》、美国《科学》杂志、《求是》杂志等发表过有影响的文章。获奖：联合国艾滋病防治特殊贡献奖、北京市高校教学名师、北京市优秀教师、国家精品课奖、全国十大教育英才、国务院特别津贴奖励、清华大学学术新人奖、清华大学优秀教学奖、清华大学良师益友、首届全国百佳新闻工作者、中国新闻奖、中国国际新闻奖等。目前主持国家重大课题《舆论引导力与社会舆情预警系统研究》和国家重点课题《中国文化软实力发展战略研究》。
出版的专著
1.《畸变的媒体》，李希光著，复旦大学出版社，2003
2.《新闻学核心》，李希光著，南方日报出版社，2002
3.《媒体的力量》，李希光、赵心树合著，南方日报出版社，2002
4.《找故事的艺术》，李希光等合著，清华大学出版社，2003
5.《全球新传播》，李希光主编，南方日报出版社，2002
6.《下一代媒体》，李希光主编，南方日报出版社，2002
7.《变形的新闻屋》，李希光著，四川人民出版社，2000
8.《妖魔化与媒体轰炸》，李希光第一作者，江苏人民出版社，1999
9.《中国有多坏》，李希光著，江苏人民出版社，1998
10.《妖魔化中国的背后》，李希光第一作者，中国社会科学出版社，1996
11.《找回中国昨日辉煌》，李希光著，国际文化出版公司，1996
12.《梦幻尼雅》，李希光文，林永健摄影，民族出版社，1995

具有代表性的论文目录
1.ICT and the Demise of Propaganda in China, the Global Meedia Journal, fall 2003
2.Web Revolutionises China’s Media, South China Morning Post, September 27,2002
3.Great Sound Makes No Noise, Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Polity, Harvard University （www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/papers.htm）2000
4.The Inside Story of Demonizing China, Contemporary Chinese Thought, Winter 1998-99/Vol.30,No.2, The Inside Story ,M.E. Sharp
5. Scientific Misconduct: Chinese Researchers Debate Rash of Plagiarism Cases, Li Xiguang and Xiong Lei, Science 1996 October 18
6. 新闻构架与国家利益：北约轰炸中国使馆媒体报道研究 《国际新闻界》（核心刊物），2000（1）
7.谁在设置中国的议程？中美撞机媒体报道研究《新闻与传播研究》（核心刊物），李希光、秦轩，2001（3）
8. 美国媒体报道中国非典研究 《新闻与传播研究》（核心刊物），2003（2）
9. 新闻事实论 《国际新闻界》（核心刊物），2001年第3期（总103期）
10. 传媒人才不等于新闻人才 《新闻界》（核心刊物），2002.5（总第205期）
11. 谁在设置国际冲突报道框架 《中国记者》（核心刊物），2002（9）
12. 影响美国媒体报道中国的主要因素 《中国记者》（核心刊物），2002（3）
13. 网络媒体生路在何方？《现代传播》（核心刊物），2001（5）
14. 阿尔卑斯归来话传播 《现代传播》（核心刊物）2001（2）
15. 非西方媒体如何在全球化时代营造自己的品牌？《新闻实践》（核心期刊）2003（9）

专著章节
1.Who is Setting the Chinese Agenda? The Impact of Online Chatrooms on Party Presses in China，Li Xiguang, Qin Xuan and Randolph Kluver， Asia Dotcom: Asia Encounters Internet, Routledge, 2003
2. Creeping Freedom in the Chinese Press, China’s Century, forwarded by Zhu Rongji, John Wiley & Son(Asia) Pte Ltd,

主要兼职（国内外主要学术团体的兼职）
2001年迄今 香港大学 客座教授
2003年迄今 南京大学 兼职教授
1999年迄今 四川大学 客座教授
1999年迄今 中国人民大学《国际新闻界》副主编
2000年迄今 国务院台办海峡两岸研究中心 特约研究员
2001年迄今 国务院新闻办咨询专家组 成员
2001年迄今 国务院台办媒体专家组 成员
2003年迄今 国家社科规划办项目评审专家组 成员
2003年迄今 国家科技部软科学项目专家评审组 成员
1996年迄今 中国科技新闻学会 常务理事
2002年迄今 ”Global Media Journal”(美国普度大学) 编委
2001年迄今 中国记协 特邀理事
2003年 中国新闻奖 评委
2006年迄今 教育部新闻学学科教学指导委员会副主任

获奖情况
北京市精品课（2003年）、清华大学优秀中青年教学奖（2001）、清华大学“良师益友”奖（2001）、首届全国百佳新闻工作者（中国记协，1995）、中国国际新闻奖一等奖（国务院新闻办，1996）、中国新闻奖学术论文二等奖（中国记协，1997）、全国优秀科技新闻奖（1990年，国家科委）、国家自然科学基金委荣誉证书（1992年）、中国科学院科星奖一等奖（1992）、中国科学院科星奖一等奖（1994）、中国科学院科星奖一等奖（1996）、中国科学院科星奖一等奖（1998）、中国科学院“丰产奖”（1998）、“杜邦杯”中国优秀环境新闻奖一等奖（1996，中国记协、国家环保局）、“杜邦杯”中国优秀环境新闻奖一等奖（1998，中国记协、国家环保局）、全国地震优秀新闻一等奖（1991，中国记协、国家地震局）、“海上丝绸之路考察荣誉证书”（1991，菲律宾教科文组织全国委员会）、 “华盛顿邮报优秀访问记者证书”（1995，阿尔佛莱德基金会颁发）、“布哈拉荣誉市民证书”（1991，乌兹别克布哈拉市市长）、“香港回归报道表彰”（1997，国务院新闻办）、“邓小平逝世报道表彰”（1997，新华社党组）、新华社优秀学术论文（1996，新华社）、“中华环保世纪行”一等奖（1997，全国人大环资委）。

简历
1978年9月-1982年7月 南京大学外文系英美语言文学 文学学士
1982年8月-1985年8月 中国科学院理论物理所 研究实习员
1985年9月-1988年7月 中国社会科学院研究生院英语采编 法学硕士
1988年8月-1990年7月 新华社对外部 记者
1990年7月-1992年8月 联合国教科文组织“丝绸之路”项目 青年学者
1992年9月-1995年5月 新华社中央新闻采编室 副主任/主任记者
1995年6月-1995年12月 美国《华盛顿邮报》 访问记者
1996年1月-1998年12月 新华社政治文化编辑室 主任/ 高级记者
1999年1月-1999年6月 哈佛大学新闻政治与公共政策中心 研究员
1999年8月迄今 清华大学国际传播研究中心 主任/教授
2006年1月迄今 清华大学新闻与传播学院 常务副院长

倪宁 人民大学

新闻学院常务副院长，教授，博士生导师。学校图书馆馆长、文化科技园管委会副主任、国家清史纂修领导小组办公室副主任, 中国广告协会学术委员会副主任。《广告传播学》（合著）、《广告学教程》曾获得中国人民大学优秀科研成果奖；《新闻教学实践的组织与管理》、《报纸编辑学课程教学法研究》等三项北京市优秀教学成果奖获奖成员。2004年全国十大广告学人之一。被教育部连续三届聘为新闻学学科教学指导委员会委员，中国广告主协会咨询专家。

近期专著：

《广告新天地》

《广告学教程》

《广告学教程》（第二版）

《广告传播学》（合著）

《广告精点》（合著）

《广告学》（合著）

《广告学概论》（合著）等

《广告学教程》

近期论文：

《试析我国期刊广告经营的现状与发展》

《试论我国新闻教育的流变及其启示》

《试论电视节目赞助的决定性因素》

《报业经营应该怎样做》

《知识经济催促媒体创新》

《试论新闻媒体的信息交流》

《经济低谷中的日本报纸广告》

《语言观在传播中的地位和作用》

张小玲 诺丁汉大学

注册参会或询问会议相关信息，请联系：h.cohen02@westminster.ac.uk

会议相关信息，请浏览：http://chinamediacentre.org/

Thursday 8 and Friday 9 April 2010

Location: University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London

Registration: The Conference is open for registration now.  The deadline for registration is April 1.

Please contract Helen Cohen H.cohen02@westminster.ac.uk for registration form.

Speakers:

Prof. Li Xiguang, Tsinghua University,China

Prof. Ni Ning, Renmin University,China

Dr. Zhang Xiaolin, Nottingham University

Programme

The Conference Programme will be available to check soon.

If you have any questions about the conference, please contact Helen Cohen H.cohen02@westminster.ac.uk.

China’s Soft Power

A Conference organised by the China Media Centre at the University of Westminster with the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of China Renmin University

309 Regent Street, London W1 UK

April 8th and 9th 2010

The dramatic economic growth in China has meant a renewed international influence.  President Obama’s recent visit, and the effective establishment of the “G2,” marked international recognition of the fact that China is, today, a central actor in the world economy.  Historically, economic power has always been accompanied by increasing international cultural influence – soccer, Hollywood and karaoke are just some of the things bequeathed by other big economies to the rest of the world.  It is certain that China’s economic stature will also be reflected in the diffusion of Chinese culture.

This reality is already recognised by many in China and outside.  The Chinese government has a “going abroad” strategy, aiming to make the Chinese language, Chinese culture, and the Chinese media more visible internationally.  At the same time, broadcasters who were once content to buy programmes and copy western models are today planning to enter the international market place as sellers of their own products.  This conference will address the current and future state of China’s “soft power.”

Keynote Speakers

In addition, more than forty papers will be presented, including studies on:

• Theoretical discussions of the relationships between economic power and cultural power

• Official efforts to promote Chinese language and culture abroad
• China’s international news media
• The international strategies of China’s media companies
• The competitive advantages of Chinese culture in the international market
• Is “authentic” Chinese culture under threat from the drive to sell products internationally?
• International reaction to the spread of Chinese culture
• The historical experience of the international influence of Chinese culture
• Future prospects for Chinese media and culture on the world stage

To register for the conference, please contact Helen Cohen H.cohen02@westminster.ac.uk.

Conceived and organized by:

Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication and Director of India Media Centre at the University of Westminster, London

Supported by:

Mass Communication Division of the ICA and by the Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University for Pennsylvania

Call for papers:

The transformation of communication and media in China and India – the world’s two most populous countries and fastest growing economies – has profound implications for what constitutes the ‘global’. Jairam Ramesh, currently India’s Environment Minister, is credited with the notion of ‘Chindia’, representing what has been termed as the ‘rise of the rest’. Trade between the two Asian neighbours – negligible at the beginning of the 1990s – grew to $40 billion by 2008, with China becoming India’s largest single trading partner. Such economic exchanges have coincided with cracks within the neo-liberal model of US-led Western capitalism. The combined economic and cultural impact of ‘Chindia’, aided by their worldwide diasporas, is creating globalization with an Asian accent, a phenomenon that is likely to influence globalized media and its study.

With more than 70 dedicated news channels, India has one of the world’s most linguistically diverse media landscapes, while China has emerged as the planet’s biggest mobile telephone market, having the world’s highest blogger population and as the largest exporter of IT products. The study of media and communication is rapidly growing in both countries: more than 700 communication and media programmes are operational in Chinese universities, while the opening up of the media and communication sector in India has led to mushrooming of media institutes. In addition, both countries provide a considerable number of media and communication postgraduate and research students to Western universities.

Though both countries have experienced different trajectories of growth in recent decades and represent two distinct political and media systems, they also demonstrate interesting similarities. The rise of ‘Chindia’ offers exciting opportunities as well as challenges to media and communication researchers. This preconference – a pioneering intellectual venture – aims to bring together scholars from around the world, especially from China and India, to examine and explore this phenomenon.

Among the topics we wish to cover are: The rise of ‘Chindia’ and its impact on international media research; globalization of Indian media and cultural industries; China’s soft power; communication and cultural exchange between China and India; re-envisioning diasporic and developmental communication; Chindia – cooperation or competition?

The Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) of the University of Westminster, which was officially rated in 2008 as the UK’s top media research department, is home to both the China Media Centre and the newly established India Media Centre. This unique combination of expertise should ensure high-quality international participation, especially from China and India. A selection of papers presented at the preconference will be published in a special themed issue of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication.

Speakers to include: Professor Yuezhi Zhao, Simon Fraser University, Canada; Professor Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, UK; Professor Ang Peng Hwa, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Professor Bella Mody, University of Colorado in Boulder; Professor Hu Zhengrong, Communication University of China, Beijing; Professor Vibodh Parthasarathi, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi; Dr Xin Xin, University of Westminster; Professor Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Bowling Green State University, USA and Professor Joseph Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Registration: Participants are required to pay a fee of $100, which includes tea, coffee and lunch, and the payment goes through ICA.

Prospective participants should submit an abstract (200-300 words) to Professor Daya Thussu (D.K.Thussu@westminster.ac.uk) and Ranita Chatterjee (R.Chatterjee@westminster.ac.uk) by 7 December 2009.

The last thirty years have seen a transformation of the Chinese media. They have moved from being solely the “throat and tongue of the party” supported by state subsidies to a situation where the majority of their income is from advertising revenue, for which they must vigorously compete with each other. The need to gain and hold an audience are today central to the concerns of media managers, journalists and creative workers. At the same time, they still need to follow the party line and to carry positive messages about China’s development. Many observers have noted how these two tasks impose unique burdens on the media and oblige them to develop new strategies to report the news and to entertain the audience.

The change in the economic situation of the media, and the orientation on the preferences of consumers, has meant that Chinese media producers have had to find new forms of journalism and new kinds of programming that are attractive to the mass audience.

In television, despite the regulatory protection that CCTV still enjoys, it must face sharp competition in markets like Guangdong from provincial and city stations whose programming is much more attuned to local tastes and language. Nationally, provincial satellite channels, notably from Hunan, are in the forefront of innovation in entertainment programming. Similarly, Phoenix TV is introducing new ways of reporting the news and winning a substantial audience, particularly amongst the younger and elite audiences.

In the newspaper press there has been a series of new and innovative titles, which have much more sensational and personalised reporting than the old norms. Some journalists have reported on events and individuals that have had major repercussions for aspects of the legal situation. At the same time there has been an explosion of journalism devoted to different aspects of lifestyle and consumption, aimed squarely at the new middle class audience. In the broader printed press, a new generation of magazines targeting audiences like young women and, more recently, young men, have enjoyed substantial success in terms of circulation.

Social change, and in particular the rise of car ownership, has also led to a revival of radio. The notorious traffic jams of big Chinese cities have created what is literally a captive audience for the medium. So, too, increasing affluence and the spread of the internet has led to an explosion of computer gaming, both offline and online, that is attractive to many young people.

The sources of these new ideas are many and varied. Sometimes, as with TV dramas, there is the straightforward purchase and broadcasting of foreign shows, many originating from Korea, which have proved very popular with audiences. In entertainment programming, there have been notorious cases of unauthorised borrowings from abroad (Supergirl is the most famous example) but today there are more and more entirely legal purchases of foreign formats. In broadcast news, Phoenix uses presentational techniques developed by international broadcasters to deliver the same sort of news as CCTV in a more approachable format. In magazines, the model is one of close collaboration in joint ventures between Chinese publishers and big western publishers that have established Chinese equivalents of many of the most famous global fashion and lifestyle titles. These borrowings, however, are hardly ever simple transfers from one country to another: in almost all cases, Chinese importers modify the original to fit better with the preferences of their audience.

Increasingly, however, Chinese media are seeking to break free from imported models and to produce media content that is wholly original. They are following in the footsteps of producers in other countries who started off with a debt to more advanced media systems but have increasingly generated their own nationally-specific content. Some Chinese media organisations have plans to develop themselves into truly global players, to generate wholly original content, and to export their programmes, ideas and formats to other countries.

These innovations in the media are taking place at the same time as the much more general and very rapid social and cultural changes that are sweeping China. Millions of people flood into the cities from the countryside and millions of urban dwellers have seen their personal wealth and their cultural horizons transformed in the last thirty years. Some welcome these cultural changes and celebrate the forms of media that are attractive to this new audience. They welcome the relative freedom and the influence of foreign ideas and values, seeing them as the building blocks of the new China. Others worry that the deluge of novelty threatens the traditional values of Chinese culture and seek to insulate the population from alien cultures. In the film industry, for example, some claim that the price of international success has been the adaptation of traditional Chinese themes and stories to fit western tastes. China will only succeed in exporting cultural products, they argue, if they are stripped of their unique Chinese characteristics.

We invite papers that look at any aspect of this complex process of change. Our interests include, but are not limited to:

• Joint deals between Chinese and overseas media companies
• Intellectual property rights and the Chinese media
• Adapting foreign models to Chinese conditions
• Originating wholly Chinese media artefacts
• Managing the process of change, creativity and innovation in the Chinese media
• Planning entry into the global market
• The nature of cultural change in contemporary China
• New freedoms and new constraints for Chinese media producers
• Chinese media and foreign capital

Send abstracts (250 words maximum) by 1st February to Guo Dawei: georgedawei@hotmail.com

China’s Media Handlers

学术研讨会：新闻发言人与政府公关

A key issue in modern public affairs, following the Tibet crisis and Sichuan disaster, and before the Olympics.

Who are the people who manage media relations in China? How do they work?

当今中国，谁在协调政府与媒体及公众的关系？他们如何工作？

2008年6月6日，中国传媒中心在伦敦举办了一场公开讨论会，讨论的问题集中在当代中国的政府新闻发言人制度，主要探讨在西藏事件、四川地震之后以及奥运会之前的阶段，中国政府与媒体的关系。

Steven Guanpeng Dong

Trainer of China’s official spokesmen for the State Council Information Office; former CCTV journalist and Lecturer at Tsinghua University’s School of Journalism and Communication

In the chair: David Hill, formerly Tony Blair’s Director of Communications, now working at Bell Pottinger Group

with Lord (Tim) Bell

Host: Professor Simon Jarvis, Pro Vice-Chancellor,

University of Westminster

Entry is free and open to all