International Conference on Intercultural Dialogue on
Media Ethics and Professionalism &
USCET Media Education Consortium Launch
Sponsored by
School of Journalism and Communication of Wuhan University
Research Center for Media Development of Wuhan University
US-China Education Trust
Co-Sponsored By
Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3
Foreign Journalism History Association
Center for Intercultural Communication Research of Wuhan University
Wuhan University
December 9-10 , 2009
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Conference Agenda
Tuesday, December 8
10:30
Conference Registration
Registration Venue: Jingjiang Star Hotel
Address: No. 62, Hongshan Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan
18:30
Welcome Banquet
Banquet Hall of Luojia Hotel of Wuhan University
Wednesday, December 9
08:00
Conference Registration
The Hall of Foreign Language School
08:30
Opening Ceremony
Host: Prof. Shan Bo, Vice Dean of School of Journalism and
Communication, Wuhan University
Speech by:
Mr. Zhou Chuangbing, Vice Principal of Wuhan University
Speeches by Conference Chairs:
Prof. Hughes Hotier, Former Director of Research Center for
Organizational Communication, Université Michel de
Montaigne-Bordeaux 3
Prof. Shi Yibin, Dean of School of Journalism and Communication,
Wuhan University
Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch, President, US-China Education
Trust
Speech by Co-sponsor:
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Prof. Guo Zhenzhi , Chairman of Foreign Journalism History
Association
09:10
Photo & Tea Break
09:30
Keynote Speech
（Each speaker will have 15 minutes to deliver his/ her speech, followed
by 10 minutes of comments by each commentator）
Host ：Prof. Zhang Jinhai, Director of Research Center for Media
Development , Wuhan University
Commentator ：Prof. Huang Xingmin, Prof. Huang Yu
1、
Zheng Baowei: Media Responsibilities under Different Cultural
Context
2、
Colin Sparks: Images of China in the UK Press
3、
Li Xiguang: Dialogue Journalism and the World Peace
4、
Su Yaoji, Li Yuelian: Journalistic Professionalism: The Case of
Sichuan Earthquake Reporting
5、
Zhao Yali: Chronic Analysis of the Self: Micro-observation on
Intercultural Communication
6、
Wang Handong：Ethical Issues on Television Coverage of
Financial Turmoil and Financial Reports
7、
Guo Zhenzhi:
Cyber Opinions and the Image of China: A Study
on a New York Times Article and It’s Online Comments
11:35
13:30
Lunch
Academic Reports I：How to Report on “Others” :Ethics and
Problems in Intercultural Communication
（Each speaker have 15 minutes to deliver his/ her speech, with 10
minutes of Q&A and 10 minutes of comments by each commentator）
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Host: Prof. Qin Zhixi, School of Journalism and Communication,
Wuhan University
Commentator: Prof. Feng Jiansan, Prof. Hong Junhao
1、
Fang Xiaohong: Barrier and Measures for Intercultural
Communication on Chinese Traditional Sports
2、
Zhan Jiang: The Imagination of Media Ethic: Is a Frame Needed?
3、
Wu Fei: The Concept of Professional Authority on Journalism
4、
Zheng Han: Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Rethinking of the
Morality and Ethics of Global Journalism
5、
Yean Tsai, Kuo-Jen Tsang: Imagination and Creative
Imagination: A Primitive Proposal for Their Application in News Narrative
6、
Jiang Fei: A Question Task: What Culture Concept Dose China
Need?
7、
Hughes Hotier: Reporting Another Culture: An Impossible task?
8、
Zheng Zhenming: ”Gossip” Model and News Report
9、
Wei Guangju, Chen Linghui: Film Subject and Cultural Others
10、 Wang Zhijie: Apocalypse after “Read, Put into Practice the Sun’s
Military Science”
11、 Yao Xi, Huang Kui:
Enterprises’ Social Responsibility and Media
Ethics
12、 Zhang Wei: Veil of Ignorance, Media Logic and Ethics: Ethical
Structure and Eology from the Respect of International Reports in
Chinese Media
13、 Si Jing Xin:
Exoticism and Realism: Chinese Media Discourse on
French Culture
14、 Ke Ze: Theory and Case Study on Media Ethics
15、 Liu Guoqiang:
National Image Communication: A Research on
Nation Identity
16、 Xia Shifen: A Research of Print Media Professionalism and Ethics
from the Development of Taiwan Media
17、 Li Yajiao: Several Problems on Foreign News Interviews
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18、 Zhang Xiaolin: China’s Image in Western Media and It’s Cultural
Origin
19、 Wasng Songmao, Yan Ziyu: On the Changes of professionalism from
the Corporate Governance Perspectives
16:00
16:15
Tea Break
Academic Reports II:
The Clash of Cultures and Its
Reconciliation in News Reporting
（Each speaker have 15 minutes to deliver his/ her speech, with 10
minutes of Q&A and 10 minutes of comments by each commentator）
Host: Prof. Xia Qiong, School of Journalism and Communication,
Wuhan University
Commentator: Prof. Su Yaoji, Prof. Chen Ling
1、
He Zhou: Coorientation in Cross-cultural Settings: How Hong
Kong and Mainland Journalists Perceive The People on the Other Side
2、
Zhang Yonghua: Reflection on the Concepts of Individualism and
Collectivism
3、
Anne-Marie Brady: China’s “Intercultural Communication” Past
and Present Successes, Failures, and Future Areas for Improvement
4、
Rui Bifeng: Description or Regulation?: Journalist
professionalism in the practices of Chinese media
5、
Xia Qianfang: The Practical Logic of Journalist Professionalism
under the System of Performance Appraisal in Mainland China: the Logic
out of State and Market
6、
Duan Jingsu: Alert: Mass Media are Tearing Our Society
7、
Zhang Zhuo:
How Did News Become a “Joke”: From the Media
Image of the First H1N1 Patient in Mainland China
8、
Yu Guoming: The Development, Problems and Future
Directions of Chinese Media Regulation
9、
Shi Xu: The Chinese Discourse of Human Rights and Glocalization
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10、 Xu Zhenglin: The Analysis of the Vatican Catholic Communication
Network and Its Impact in Context of Globalization
11、 Liu Hong: On Cultural Misunderstanding of Titles of Breaking News
Reports
12、 Chen Gang: Controversial Communication and Disputes of
Communication: Mass Media Coverage of Controversial News Events
13、 Liu Jing: Rethinking the Discussion of Contemporary Chinese
Media Reform Abroad since 1990
14、 Li Jing:
The "Others" Image in International Communication：The
Critical Discourse Studies of International News Section in the
"Liberation Daily"
15、 Yang Ning:
Media Spectacle of the Others:
the "Central and
Eastern European Society" in Chinese Media Reports
16、 P.M.T.C. Wijesundara, B.K. Wijayagunawardena: News
Reports: A Solution or an Intensifier of Cultural Conflicts? A Case of State
Sinhala Language Media of Sri Lanka
17、 Liu Youzhi, Qi Sujing: The Structure and Influence in China’s
External Communication of Cultural Products: As an Example for China’s
External Communication of Cultural Products in
Mainland
18、 Lin Jie: The Individual Participants in Chinese Public Diplomacy
and Diplomatic Decentrlization In Informational Age
16:15
MEC Panel A:
The Relevance of Media Education: Chinese & US
Case Studies
Moderator: Prof. Shi Yibin, Dean of School of Journalism and
Communication, Wuhan University
Commentator:
Prof. Huang Yu, Head, Department of Journalism,
Hong Kong Baptist University
Mr. Gregg Fields, Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong Baptist University
Prof. Christopher Hanson, Associate Professor, The Philip Merrill
College of Journalism, University of Maryland
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Prof. Qiang Yuexin, Vice Dean, School of Journalism and
Communication, Wuhan University
Prof. Wu Yumin, Dean of Communication School, Shenzhen University
Zhou Nailene, Director of Global Business Journalism, Tsinghua
University
18:30
Dinner
Thursday, December 10
08:00
Academic Reports III：A Comparative Analysis of News Reporting
in the Perspective of Intercultural Communication
（Each speaker have 15 minutes to deliver his/ her speech, with
10 minutes of Q&A and 10 minutes of comments by each
commentator）
Host: Prof. Wang Handong, School of Journalism and Communication,
Wuhan University
Commentato: Prof. He zhou, Prof. Xu Zhenglin
1、
Sun Youzhong: Intercultural Communication Analysis on Chinese
Human Rights in the New York Times
2、
Feng Jiansan: Taiwan Media Coverage and Comments on Cuba
and Its Major Events
3、
Huang Yu: The Construction of Distance: A Comparison between
Hong Kong Newspapers Coverage on Local and Non-local News
4、
Donal Carbaugh: Exploring Cultural Discourses in the News：
Telling Stories Differently
5、
Kaibin Xu: Difference and Interculturality: A Dialogic Perspective
on Intercultural Communication
6、
Dai Yuanguang: Framing Study On News Reporting About
Chinese Ethnic Riot: On July 5 by New York Times
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7、
Liu Jialin: Development of Communication Research in China
8、
Liu Na, Zhang Li: A Comparison between US and China Media
Agenda-setting Influence on Domestic Policy in the Context of Natural
Disasters
9、
Liu Mingxin : Seperation and Self-reflection: A Comparative
Analysis of News Reports between Xinhua News Agency and the
"Economist" on Lasha 3.14 Event
10、 Xin Jing: Distinctive Features of Web Journalism in Mainland China:
A case study of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
11、 Karim Kone: Discourses of American and Chinese on Gender
Imbalances in China
12、 He Shijie: A Comparative Research of Disaster Reports
on
the
New York Times": Taking Hurricane Katrina and Sichuan Earthquake
Coverage as Examples
13、 Wu Shiwen, Shi Yibin: On Media Bias from News Coverage of
Xinjiang "7.5 Events" on Mainstream Media in Britain, US and Australian
9:45
10:00
Tea Break
Academic Reports IV:
How to Develop Dynamic Concepts of
Intercultural Communications
（Each speaker have 15 minutes to deliver his/ her speech, with
10 minutes of Q&A and 10 minutes of comments by each
commentator）
Host: Prof. Xia Qianfang, School of Journalism and Communication,
Wuhan University
Commentator ：Prof. Zhao Yali, Prof. Sun Youzhong
1、
Demorgon J.：New Concept of Construction of Intercultural
Communication : for the Future of Human Being.
2、
Chen Weixing: Visual Issues in the Intercultural Communication
3、
Luo Shihong: Citizen Journalism in Practice for Media Publicness:
Taking the Citizen Journalism Platform PeoPo in Taiwan as an Example
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4、
Thomas L. Jacobson: Universals and Particulars in
Modernization： A Chinese Analysis Using the Theory of Communicative
Action
5、
Wenshan Jia: Towards Creating an Intercultural Model of Global
Journalism
6、
Christopher Hanson: The Jayson Blair Case and Newsroom
Ethics
7、
Yang Baojun: The Logic of the Construction of Positive Ethical
Regulation
8、
Shan Bo: How is Intercultural Communication Possible？
9、
Jiang Jianguo: Academies of Overseas in Cultural
Communicational Activities and Their Impact
10、 Zhu Qinghe, Zhang Ronghua: Journalistic Professionalism’s
Research and Practice of Chinese Situation: also about it’s except for
value of social transformation
11、 Wang Bing: Ethical Anxiety of Visual Production of Disasters: A
Perspective of Media Ecology
12、 Chen Na: Searching the Rational Media Ethics: Comparison and
Reflection on Ethical Iissues in US and China
13、 Feng Jianxia: Borrow, Digestion and Reconstruction: Journalistic
Professionalism in China
10:00
MEC Panel B：Blogging, New Technology, and New Ethics:
Implications for Journalism Education
Moderator: Mr. James McGregor, Author, “One Billion Customers”
and USCET Advisory Council member
Commentator:
Mr. Gregg Fields, Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong Baptist
University
Prof. Margaret Freaney, Visiting Fellow, Global Business Journalism,
Tsinghua University
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Prof. Liu Liqun, School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan
University
Mr. Micah Truman, CEO and Co-Founder, Wanmo
Prof. Zhong Ying, School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan
University
12:00
Closing Ceremony
Chair: Prof. Qiang Yuexin, Vice Dean of School of Journalism and
Communication, Wuhan University
Speech by Attendees:
Mr. Steve J. Kulich, Executive Director, Intercultural Research
Center,
Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)
Prof. Dong Tiance, Dean of School of
Journalism and Communication,
Jinan University
Conclusion Remarks：Prof. Shan Bo, Vice Dean, School of Journalism
and Communication, Wuhan University
12:30
Lunch Hosted by USCET
13:30
MEC Business Meeting (MEC Members and Potential Applicants)
Chair:
Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch, President, US-China
Education Trust
Remarks:
Ambassador Nicholas Platt, President Emeritus of the Asia
Society and Chairman of the US-China Education, US-China Relations
Beginning with Nixon
15:00
MEC Business Meeting Concludes
16:00
Dinner at Zhong Jia Cun, Hanyang
19:30
Musical: I Had a Dream, Qin Tai Music Hall
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