Schedule of the International Communication Section
Session 1 - Special Panel: Media and Terrosism: A Saudi Perspective
Moderator and Chair: Ali Alkarni, president of the Saudi Association for Media & Communication, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Paper 1: Ali Alkarni, Mass Communication Department, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Media & Terrorism: Contradicting Values, Freedom & Control—A Theoretical Background
Paper 2: Hamza Bait-Almal, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
International Correspondents in Saudi Arabia: Reporting Terrorism Issues
Paper 3: Abdulrahman al-Otabi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Media: The Treatment and Management of Terrorism Issues
Paper 4: Abdullah Al-Humod, Imam University, Saudi Arabia
The Role of Arab Television News Channels in Dealing with Terrorism Issues
Paper 5: Abdullah Al-Twergy, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia and Fayez Alshehri, King Fahad College
Internet as a Propaganda Medium for Terrorist Networks
Paper 6: Abdulraman H. Algadheb, Shura Council, Saudi Arabia
Evaluation of The Saudi National Solidarity Campaign
Session 2 - Media Panics: Mass Media and Public Emotion
Chair: Shelton A. Gunaratne, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA
Paper 1: Yang Yanni, Joann Tan, and Jamaliah Othman, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Framing Analysis and Predictors of International News Flow: A Look at Media Coverage of The Bali Bomb Blast and Madrid Train Attack in 13 Newspapers
Paper 2: Kuang-Kuo Chang, Wen-Li Chen, and Xiaohui Jin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Bird Flu and Contextual Factors: An Investigation of Press Coverage of the Disease in Local, Regional and International Newspapers
Paper 3: Tania Cantrell, University of Texas, Austin, USA
The Associated Press' Roller-Coaster Ride of Natural Disaster International News Coverage
Paper 4: Mei Li Lean and Usha Devi Rajaratnam, Taylor's College Sdn. Bhhd., Jalan Pantai Dalam, Malaysia
Waves of Destruction: A Portrayal of a Natural Disaster by the Mass Media
Paper 5: Allen Palmer and Liwen Jiang , Brigham Young University, USA
Mass Media and Emotion: A Meta-analysis of a Communication Blind Spot
Session 3 - Perpectives on Middle-East and Islamic Media
Chair: Allen W. Palmer, Brigham Young University, USA
Paper 1: Saul Zadka, Yizrael Valley College, Israel
The Reform Debate in the Arab Media
Paper 2: Kit Lam, University of Iowa, USA
Image and Discontent of Al-Jazeera in the Context of International Communication
Paper 3: Budi Irawanto, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Fundamentalist Discourse on Terrorism in Indonesian Islamic Media
Paper 4: Helga Tawil, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA
Under Pressure: Where to Get Intifada News in the Palestinian Territories
Session 4 - Media & Development: Contemporary Challenges
Moderator and Chair: Sergi Cortinas Rovira, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Paper 1: ShaoChun Cheng, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
Under the Shadow of an Almighty Neighbor: The Trajectory and Future of the Taiwanese TV Industry
Paper 2: Loretta Palmer, Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah, USA
Balancing Intellectual Property Rights with Public Obligations in Developing Nations: Lessons from Africa
Paper 3: Shelton A. Gunaratne, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA
Public Diplomacy, Global Communication, and World Order: An Analysis based on Theory of Living Systems
Paper 4: Shiva Pajouhesh Fard, Islamic Azad University-Tehran Central Branch, Iran
The Qualitative and Quantitative Development of Communication, a Significant Element in Forming the Theory of Dialogue among Civilizations
Session 5 - Special Panel -- Formats, Reality Television, and Innovation in Asian Television Landscapes
Moderator and Chair: Michael Keane
Paper 1: Michael Keane, Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Legal and economic issues in the international format market
Paper 2: Albert Moran, Griffith University, Australia
The evolution of format markets
Paper 3: Keval J. Kumar, Resource Centre for Media Education and Research, Australia
Copying, emulating and isomorphism within Asian television industries
Paper 4: Yu-li Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan and Yi-hsiang Chen, Shih Hsin University, Taiwan
Television Formats in Taiwan: Cloning, Adaptation, Import and Originality
Paper 5: Anthony Fung, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Keeping it in the family: making formats fit the Asian domestic sphere
Paper 6: Josephina Santos, University of Philippines Diliman, Philippines
From Jeepney to Format
Session 6 - Media Texts, Language and Messages
Moderator and Chair: Chiung Hwang Chen, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, USA
Paper 1: Toshiko Miyazaki, E. Gwangho, Jia Shan, School of Media Science, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
The State of Reception of Japanese Comics and Television Animation by East and Southeast Asian Children
Paper 2: Chi-Hsein Wang, Shih-hsin Private University, Taiwan
Another Hero: Stephen Chow's Movie Characters
Paper 3: Sergi Cortinas Rovira, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Globalization of Scientific Journalism
Paper 4: Sujatha Sosale, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
Local, National or Global? Regional Language News and Negotiations of Linguistic Identity on Indian Television
Paper 5: Mei Wu, University of Macau, PR China
Digital Publics: Theorizing and Measuring the Dynamics of Political Discussion in Chinese Net Forums
Session 7 - Trajectories of New Technologies
Moderator and Chair: Sujatha Sosale, University of Iowa, USA
Paper 1: Wei-wei Vivian Huang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
The Effects of Internet upon Chinese Immigrants' Attributional Confidence
Paper 2: Ran Wei, University of South Carolina, USA
A Cross-Cultural Study of Mobile Phone Dependency Among American and Chinese Youth
Paper 3: Monir Hossain Moni, Waseda University, Japan and University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Narrowing the Digital Divide: Japan's Response
Paper 4: Anthony S.C. Huang and Josephine T.C. Nio, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, Taiwan
The Bright and Dark Side of Internet Use: The Paradoxical Effects of Internet use Among Taiwan's Net Generation
Paper 5: JungBong Choi, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Reifying Digital Television and Deifying Interactivity: A Case in Japan
Session 8 - Global, Regional and Local Issues
Moderator and Chair: Budi Irawanto, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Paper 1: Margreth Luenenborg, University of Vienna, Austria
Cultural Citizenship in Media Society: A Theoretical Concept to Describe the Importance of Media in the Process of Globalization
Paper 2: Wei Ching Wang, University of Texas at Austin, USA
The Reality of Media Hybridity: A Critical Interrogation of Hybridity
Paper 3: Tamara Swenson, University of Colorado Boulder, USA and Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan and Brad Visgatis, Osaka International University, Japan
Consideration of ‘Other': Media Attention and Ethnocentrism among Japanese and Americans
Paper 4: Qing Cao, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
The Poetics of Media Representation: Narrative Construction of the “Other”
Session 9 - Crossing Borders: News Flow and Media Images
Moderator and Chair: Margreth Luenenborg, University of Vienna, Austria
Paper 1: Pamela J. Shoemaker, Syracuse University, USA and Yonghua Zhang, Shanghai University, PR China
How China and the US Cover Terrorism Abroad
Paper 2: June Woong Rhee, Seoul National University, South Korea
Mass Communication Effects of the ‘Hanliu': Impacts of the Chinese's Use of Korean Cultural Products on Attitude and Behavior
Paper 3: Chiung Hwang Chen, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, USA
Framing Political Ideology: A Comparison of Journalistic Narrative in Newspapers from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
Paper 4: Hsin-yi Tsai, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
After the 9-11 and Iraq War: International News and the U.S. Images in Taiwan
Paper 5: Seon-Gi Baek, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea (South)
A Comparative Study of Discursive Difference Between Korean Off-Line Media and On-Line Media Coverage of U.S.-Iraq War |
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