Event
Jointly organized by Center on Digital Culture and Society and Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania.
March 2, 8:00-10:15pm ET
Matt Debutts and Jennifer Pan (Stanford University), “China’s Internet Controls: What If Citizens Disengage?”
Jack Qiu (Nanyang Technological University), “The Constants of Chinese Internet Research”
Yunya Song (Hong Kong Baptist University), “Gender and the Internet in China: A Historical Perspective”
Wei Wang (Zhejiang University), “The Reinvention of ‘Locality,’: Imagining Local Society with Local Media”
Jian Xu (Deakin University), “From ‘Wanghong’ to ‘Wanghong Thinking’: New Research Agenda and Critical Reflections”
Haiqing Yu (RMIT University), “Chinese Internet as the Nexus of Socio-technological Power”
Weiyu Zhang (National University of Singapore), “30 Years of China’s Online Fandom”
March 3, 8:00-10:00am ET
Jun Liu (Copenhagen University), “Reflections on Studying the Internet and (Contentious) Politics in China”
Gianluigi Negro (Siena University), “Studying the Internet in China through Metaphors”
Gabriele de Seta (University of Bergen), “From ASCII Greetings to Synthetic Livestreams: Three Decades of Chinese Digital Folklore”
Florian Schneider (Leiden University), “Nationalisms on China’s Evolving Internet”
Ge Dino Zhang (City University of Hong Kong), “A Decade of Chinese Game Studies in Retrospect”
Lin Zhang (University of New Hampshire), “Platformized Family Production: Social Reproduction and E-Commerce in Rural China”
Please register here:
https://upenn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KsEekq1FT4qoHSvpUObj7Q#/registration