China East Asia Media New Media Conference

Brisbane, Australia 5-6 July 2007

China’s emergence as a manufacturing behemoth is reshaping the global economy. The developed world and much of Asia watch with a mixture of apprehension and anticipation. However, China’s media and creative industries have not achieved the same export oriented momentum as its low cost manufacturers. With the Beijing Olympics moving closer China is mounting a claim for a leading role in the global and regional cultural economy, drawing on its long tradition as the centre of East Asian culture. Will this be vision ever be achieved? How will the state manage the inevitable conflict between media industry development and information management? What kind of role will the international community play? What will be the influence of East Asian innovators in China, and China in East Asia?

Building on two previous conferences staged by the China Media Centre at University of Westminster, London, this event shifts the site of deliberation from the North Atlantic to the Asia-Pacific. The conference will be hosted by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation.

The conference seeks initial expressions of interest in panels and papers on the following:

CONTENT AND INNOVATION:
Creative business and user-led developments in Chinese and East Asian audiovisual, online, print, advertising, design, and broadcasting industries

POLITICAL ECONOMY:
Reframing global media theory; rethinking paradigms in the light of East Asian dynamism

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY:
The Chinese media and the Beijing Olympics: creative cities and media capitals; media outside the urban clusters.

NEW MEDIA AND EMERGING REGIONAL EXPORT CULTURES:
China’s engagement with East Asian networks of digital production

EDUCATION:
New pedagogies to engage with the global creative economy; cultural diplomacy - training Chinese journalists to engage with the international media (special panel)

SERVICES, ADVERTISING, AND CREATIVE MEDIA:
Cultural tourism and creative industries developments in the region; advertising and branding the new China.

LEGAL AND REGULATORY ISSUES: Copyright, information management, creative commons and global trade regimes.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted electronically through the conference website ( http://cea.cci.edu.au )

Panel proposals of no more than 300 words can be sent to Dr Michael Keane m.keane@qut.edu.au

Final submission date: 30 November 2007
For more information, visit the conference website ( http://cea.cci.edu.au ).