ACCS Members’ Presentations at NCA 2007
Association for Chinese Communication Studies Business Meeting
Sponsor:
Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Thu, Nov 15 - 12:30pm - 1:45pm Building/Room: Palmer House / Salon 5
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Association for Chinese Communication Studies Business
Meeting
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Bei Cai (Kent St Univ--Canton)
Abstract:
During the ACCS Business Meeting we will hear reports from past and present officers. Contact
the ACCS President, Bei Cai, if you have suggestions for items that should be discussed
Media and Mediated Communication and Social Changes in Contemporary China
Sponsor:
Chinese Communication Association
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Thu, Nov 15 - 2:00pm - 3:15pm Building/Room: Palmer
House / Salon 7
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Media and Mediated Communication and
Social Changes in Contemporary China
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Mei Zhong (San Diego State University)
1. The Generic Nation Reaches Beijing: The Effectiveness and Health Ethics of American
Fast Food Advertising in China.
*C Thomas Preston Jr (Gainesville State College)
2. The use of Anime and online games among the young generation in the People’s
Republic of China.
Wenli Liu (Beijing Normal University), *Mei Zhong (San Diego State
University)
3. A Case Study of Tabloitization of a Chinese Local Newspapers: Its social and political
functions.
*Wenjie Yan (East Stroudsburg Univ)
4. The New Media Environment in China: Diversity of Exposure in Television Viewing.
*Jingyan Yuan (Northwestern University)
5. Market Economy Leads to More Democracy? Not Yet.
*Bei Cai (Kent St Univ--Canton)
Chair: Zhuojun Joyce Chen (Univ of Northern Iowa)
Abstract:
This panel exam the uses of media products and patterns in media practices, and
their influences in the contemporary Chinese society. Researchers are concerned
about how domestic and foreign media products impact Chinese people’s health,
behaviors, and sense of nationalism. It provides a platform for discussion about
a newly advanced, somewhat chaotic phenomenon in the Chinese society and
hopes to solicit interests in this area of Chinese communication research.
Top Papers in Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Sponsor:
Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Thu, Nov 15 - 3:30pm - 4:45pm Building/Room: Palmer House / Salon 7
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Top Papers in Association for Chinese Communication
Studies
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Todd L. Sandel (University of Oklahoma)
Asian Values, Asian Journalism: Disciplining journalism in the name of culture
*Soek-Fang Sim (UC San Diego)
Culture and Perceived Importance of Web design Features: A Survey of American and
Chinese College Students
*Gennadi Gevorgyan (Louisiana State University)
Rhetoric of Tiananmen: Silencing and Speaking
*Lin-Lee Lee (National Kaohsiung Normal Univ)
U.S. and NATO Apologies for Chinese Embassy Bombing: A Categorical Analysis
*Dexin Tian (Bowling Green State University)
Chair: Bei Cai (Kent St Univ--Canton)
Respondent: Todd L. Sandel (University of Oklahoma)
Abstract:
These are the top papers in ACCS scholarship. Each covers an important topic in the field of
Chinese communication studies
Emic perspectives in the field of Chinese communication studies
Sponsor:
Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Fri, Nov 16 - 9:30am - 10:45am Building/Room: Palmer
House / Salon 9
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Emic perspectives in the field of Chinese
communication studies
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Todd L. Sandel (University of Oklahoma)
When Getting into a New Culture: An Ethnographic Study of Chinese International
Students in the Bible Study Group
*Ping Yang (Arizona State University)
Do You Call This a Fangyan?: Comparing Language Ideologies, Linguistic Capital, and
Linguistic Categories in Taiwan and Xiamen, China
*Todd L. Sandel (University of Oklahoma), Tsai-Fu Tsai (University of
Oklahoma), Chung-Hui Liang (Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan), Dandan Huang
(Jimei University)
Perceptions about Americans by high school students in Beijing, China
*Lingling Zhang (Washington State Univ), *Hua Chang (Washington State
University)
Using Litigation Public Relations as Image Restoration Strategy: Case of the Unfinished
Presidential Election in Taiwan
*Po-Lin Pan (University of Alabama), I-Huei Cheng (University of Alabama)
Looking Beyond America in Theorizing Cross-Cultural Adaptation: Transnational Elites
and Globalization
*Rosemary Chai (Nanyang Tech Univ)
Respondent: Hui-Ching Chang (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Chair: Shuming Lu (Brooklyn College--CUNY)
Abstract:
Each of these studies looks at Chinese communication from the insider's point of
view. They cover a range of issues including what it means for Chinese people to
enter a new culture, perceptions of languages in China and Taiwan, perceptions
of Americans by Chinese, the case of Taiwan's Presidential election, and how to
theorize cross-cultural adaptation from a global perspective
Critical studies in mediated Chinese communication
Sponsor:
Chinese Communication Association
CoSponsor:
Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Fri, Nov 16 - 12:30pm - 1:45pm Building/Room: Palmer
House / PDR 9
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Critical studies in mediated Chinese
communication
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Bonnie Peng (National Chengchi University)
The Chinese Malaysians’ Selfish Mentality and Behaviors: Rationalizing From the Native
Perspectives
*Ee Lin Lee (Western Washington University)
Gendered Avatars- Gender Representations of Characters between Manga and Simulated
Online Role Playing Games in Taiwan
*Chia-I Hou (Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin,
Madison)
In Whose Interest? China’s fledgling DBS service and its policy implications
*Mu Lin
Internet Cafes in China: Shaping E-access in a Public Space
*Kai Wang (University of Kansas)
Wong Kar-wai’s 2046: Film as Critical Cultural Dialogue
*Michael David Parris (University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign)
Chair: John H. Powers (Hong Kong Baptist Univ)
Respondent: Yun Xia (Rider University)
Abstract:
Each of these studies critically examines how messages are mediated in a
Chinese communication context.
Chinese Communication in Various Contexts
Sponsor
Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Fri, Nov 16 - 12:30pm - 1:45pm Building/Room: Palmer
House / Salon 9
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Chinese Communication in Various
Contexts
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Guo-Ming Chen (Univ of Rhode Island)
Image Restored or Not? A Study of the Image and Crisis Management of Hong Kong
Disneyland
*Meihua Lee (National Chiao Tung Univ)
A Chinese Model of Global Leadership
*Guo-Ming Chen (Univ of Rhode Island)
An Examination on Chinese Group Communication in Taiwan
*Shu-Chu S. Li (National Chiao Tung Univ)
Rapport Building Skills in Telemarketing Interactions: A Case of Taiwan Credit Card
Holders
*Lin-Mei Huang Huang (Shih-Hsin University)
The Yin-Yang Cycle Metaphor and Its Role in the Modern Chinese Reformist Discourse
*Xiaosui Xiao (Hong Kong Baptist Univ)
Chair: Noreen M. Schaefer-Faix (Defiance College)
Respondent: Ling Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Abstract:
Communication scholars from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United State in this
panel are invited to provide innovative viewpoints in this panel. The analyses of
these scholars include: (1) the image and crisis management of Hong Kong
Disneyland, (2) a global leadership model from the Chinese perspective, (3) small
group communication in Chinese context, (4) telemarketing interactions in
Taiwan, and (5) the yin-yang cycle metaphor in Chinese discourse.
Media and Global Communications in Chinese contexts
Sponsor:
Association for Chinese Communication Studies
CoSponsor:
Chinese Communication Association
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Sat, Nov 17 - 9:30am - 10:45am Building/Room: Palmer
House / Salon 9
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Media and Global Communications in
Chinese contexts
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Todd L. Sandel (University of Oklahoma)
Adoption Agencies' Construction of China Adoption: A Cluster Analysis of Intercountry
Adoption Agencies' Websites
*Yea-Wen Chen (Univ of New Mexico), Chie Torigoe (Univ of New Mexico)
The "Brokeback Mountain"of Chinese Media: A Case Study of Chinese Media
Construction of Nationalism on Reporting of 78th Academy Award
*Le N Han (Chinese Univ of Hong Kong), Lushan Shi
Internet software piracy in China: An approach of actor network theory from the user
perspective
*Jia Lu
Population Policies and Gender Politics: The Media’s Reflection and Interpretation of Sex
Ratio Imbalance at Birth in China’s News Reports
Liqun Liu (Communication University of China, Beijing), Jing Zhang
(Communication University of China, Beijing)
Public Service vs. Marketability ---BBC and CNN’s Coverage of the Anti-Japanese
Protests in China
*Lu Zheng (University of Alabama), Shuhua Zhou (University of Alabama)
Chair: Canchu Lin (Bowling Green State Univ)
Respondent: Mei Zhang (Missouri Western State Univ)
Abstract:
Each of these studies explores how the media and global communications affect
communication in a Chinese context.
The Interactive Relationship between Media Presentations and the Political, Cultural, and
Economic Contexts in Chinese Societies
Sponsor:
Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Sat, Nov 17 - 12:30pm - 1:45pm Building/Room: Palmer
House / Salon 9
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: The Interactive Relationship between
Media Presentations and the Political, Cultural, and Economic Contexts in
Chinese Societies
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Zhuojun Joyce Chen (Univ of Northern Iowa)
Marketing Japanese Products in the Context of Chinese Nationalism.
Hongmei Li (Univ of Southern California)
Female’s Role Portrayed in Family-Oriented TV Shows: A Cultural Study on
Contemporary China.
Zhuojun Joyce Chen (Univ of Northern Iowa)
The Facelessness of Equality: A Visual Analysis of the Image of Women during the
Cultural Revolution
Pamela G Schaper-Chiu (San Diego State University), *Mei Zhong (San Diego
State University)
Respondent: Mei Zhong (San Diego State University)
Appropriation of Chinese Culture via Mass Media: Cultural Hybridity and Identity in a
Multicultural Society
Terrie Siang-Ting Wong (Nanyang Tech Univ), *Hsueh-hua (Vivian) Chen
(Nanyang Tech Univ)
Super Mediation: How the Chinese Manage and Resolve Conflict on TV, the Ideals and
the Ideologies
Yiheng Deng (University of Arizona)
Abstract:
Following the convention theme, this panel serves as a forum to discuss the
reciprocal relationship between media presentations of culture and society, and
media’s impact on contemporary Chinese societies.
Live and Communicate Globally and Interculturally: Cases and Implications
Sponsor:
Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Sat, Nov 17 - 2:00pm - 3:15pm Building/Room: Palmer
House / PDR 16
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Live and Communicate Globally and
Interculturally: Cases and Implications
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Changfu Chang (Millersville University)
Abstract:
This panel, in response to the convention theme, takes a fresh look at aspects and
issues emerging as a result of working experiences in intercutural settings. It
strikes a balance between case analyses and theoretic formulations. The panelists
identify several key áreas and issues in intercultural studies, offering analyses that
stimulate future research and point to new directions
Culture and identity issues in Chinese communication
Sponsor:
Chinese Communication Association
CoSponsor:
Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Schedule Information:
Scheduled Time: Sat, Nov 17 - 3:30pm - 4:45pm Building/Room: Palmer
House / Salon 1
Title Displayed in Event Calendar: Culture and identity issues in Chinese
communication
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Bonnie Peng (National Chengchi University)
Ethnic Identity Transference in 2nd Generation Chinese Americans: A Comparison of
Male and Female Patterns
*Sabine Fritz (University of Maryland), Mei Zhong (San Diego State University)
Male Body as Embodiment in Contemporary China--A Generic Rhetorical Approach to
Lan Yu
*Jiayun Feng (University of New Mexico)
Maoist Leadership: A Reading of Mao’s Works
*Canchu Lin (Bowling Green State Univ)
One China Two Systems: The Content and Context of Teaching Chinese Between China
and Taiwan
*Yi-Hsuan Lee (Ed.D, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Northern
Iowan)
Respondent: Mei Zhong (San Diego State University)
Chair: Shuming Lu (Brooklyn College--CUNY)
Abstract:
Each of these papers looks at culture and identity issues. They explore these
issues in such areas as education and gender.