Welcome to the research events portal of the School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. Here is where you will find information about upcoming and recent talks, seminars and other public events related to journalism, communication studies, and film, organised by our departments and centres, and/or featuring our researchers. To find out more about our work, please visit our main Research site.
UPCOMING EVENTS
On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, Our conference will “Health Communication in the Digital Era: Information, Trust and Strategies” will bring together scholars and industry practitioners in healthcare and intercultural communication to explore the critical aspects of health communication in the digital age and to bridge the gap between academic research and practical application. The event features a dynamic roundtable session that will provide practical insights into combating misinformation in healthcare, equipping participants with the tools necessary to critically assess health information. > MORE
Daya Thussu will share insights from his new book, Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication (2024) on the growing importance of digital communication in legitimizing and promoting the geopolitical and economic goals of leading powers (Event temporarily postponed). > MORE
HIGHLIGHTS
Faculty and students from the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University will present at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference in July 2025. For a full list of the presenters, click here
School of Communication faculty and students will be presenting at the 75th International Communication Association’s Annual Conference in June 2025. For a full list of the presenters, click here
From Friday 29th November to Sunday 1 December 2024, the School of Communication and Renmin University of China co-organised a 3-day symposium themed Embracing Digital Futures: Exploring the Synergy of AI, Communication, and Future Media. The event marked a critical juncture in exploring how AI innovations intersect with communication, journalism, media innovation, and societal change. > MORE
On Tuesday 19th and Wednesday 20th November 2024, the School of Communication organised a 2-day conference themed Revisiting Digital Public Diplomacy in a Post-pandemic World: Chinese and French Perspectives. The event explored discourses on the evolving landscape of digital public diplomacy between China and France in the aftermath of the global pandemic. > MORE
The HKBU Fact Check organised a pre-conference on Navigating Truth: Progress and Prospects of Fact-Checking and Media Literacy at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference on 29th June 2024. More
HKBU-affiliated faculty and students had a significant presence at the 74th International Communication Association’s Annual Conference in June 2024. For a full list of presenters, click here
HKBU School of Communication co-organised a pre-conference on Impacts of Strategic Communication in an Interconnected World at the 74th International Communication Association’s Annual Conference on 16th and 17th June 2024. More
- 22 May 2022: 2022 ICA Preconference, Lisa Henderson,University of Western Ontario; Sandra Ristovska, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cherian George, Hong Kong Baptist University; John L. Jackson, Jr., University of Pennsylvania; Juan Escobar-Lamanna, University of Western Ontario, Communicating Multi-Modally: Research & Expressive Culture
- 11–13 November 2021: An International Interdisciplinary Conference, School of Communication, Academy of Visual Arts, and the Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Narrating Cold Wars
- 7 July 2021: Symposium, School of Journalism, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University; HKU Journalism Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Misinformation and Disinformation in Hong Kong: Is legislation the answer?
- 21 June 2021: Panel Discussion, Edmund W. Cheng, City University of Hong Kong; Kingwa Fu; Hong Kong University, Francis LF Lee; Chinese University of Hong Kong,Luwei Rose Luqiu; Hong Kong Baptist University, Marko M Skoric; City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Media Freedom Post-NSL
pREVIOUS TALKS
On Thursday April 24, Sun Sun Lim delved into the dynamics of digital parenting in China by exploring how technologically infused parenting practices have intensified as parents bear the weight of social aspirations and the quest for academic excellence. She also reflected on her efforts to translate her research into public education and advocacy. > MORE
On Thursday April 10, Eva Tsui presented two macro-level tools that were developed by the Health Bureau with a view to informing health policy planning and formulation, service review and planning as well as research. > MORE
On Friday March 21, Huang Dan delivered a talk on Chinese media systems and their role in shaping specific cultural climates and environments, using Régis Debray’s conceptualisation of mediology. Huang’s talk provided an exposé of media studies from a Chinese perspective. > MORE
On February 27, 2025, Kara Chan shared findings from her study examining what motivates companies to industry employers to provide workplace exposure and work-integrated learning opportunities. She also discussed some of the challenges encountered when companies participate as industry partners. > MORE
On February 21, 2025, Luwei Rose Luqiu discussed her two new books. “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy and China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs” (2024) analyzes CCP diplomatic language and its impact in the Global South. “Reporting Sexual Violence and #MeToo in Asia” (2025) examines how media in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan shape public discourse on sexual violence and the #MeToo movement. > MORE
On Wednesday 18th December 2024, Krishna Jayakar presented his recent work on smart cities, including a quantitative analysis of specific programs included in smart city plans; the implications of smart city data management practices for data governance, consumer privacy, and digital sovereignty. > MORE
On Friday 15th November 2024, Jack Qiu reviewed the contemporary trajectories of SoftBank’s (a Japanese conglomerate) empire-building, discussed how it represents a peculiar model of Asian platform capitalism, and shed light on a variety of digital empire-building and their historical origins. > MORE
On Friday 14th November 2024, Hiram Ting’s talk explored the role of responsible communication in countering mis/disinformation, building trust, promoting media literacy, and empowering individuals to critically assess the information they consume. > MORE
On Friday 4th October 2024, Valerie Cooper expounded on the dynamics of world news reportage by international media outlets. More specifically, her talk highlighted how intermedia agenda setting can lead to skewed coverage when it comes to certain regions of the world, and explored what media outlets can do to better represent ‘the world’ to its audiences. > MORE
On Friday 13th September 2024, Kai Hafez and Anne Grüne explored the role of media and communication in social movements and real world encounters. They engaged in a discourse comparing the performances of journalism and social media in Europe and the Muslim world. > MORE
On Tuesday 28th May 2024, faculty members at the Department of Journalism presented their research on diverse topics at the Journalism Researrch Annual Colloquium. > MORE
From, 20th to 22nd March 2024, our symposium, “The New Order of Cyber Regulation: Power, Control and Governance” explored the nuances of institutionalised regulation of cyber spaces in different socio-political regimes. The event features presentations from a dozen leading scholars from the Greater Bay Area, followed by a PhD colloquium. > MORE
On Saturday, 16 March 2024, Lauren Goodlad shared insights from her interdisciplinary research on ‘generative AI’, its key affordances, as well as its social, economic, and enviromental implications. > MORE
On Saturday, 2 March 2024, Bilge Yesil explored the shifting global landscape where authoritarian regimes have begun challenging the traditional Western hegemony in global affairs. With a focus on Turkey, Yesil analysis the communicative activities that has placed less liberal states as formidable alternatives to Western supremacy. > MORE
On Friday, 1st March 2024, S. Shyam Sundar discussed how to promote responsible AI by embedding trustworthiness and interactive opportunities for users to enhance the transparency of automated systems. > MORE
On the 21st, 23rd, and 28th of February 2024, a webinar series explored communicative approaches to Countering Polarisation on various fronts around the world. It was chaired by Cherian George, who is researching a book on the subject. > MORE
On Monday 11 December 2023, PhD and MPhil students of Cherian George’s Freedom of Expression and Censorship class presented their research projects at a half-day workshop, themed ‘Censorship’. > MORE
On Friday 1 December 2023, Aliaksandr Herasimenka, discussed how evolving digital communication technologies, such as messaging platforms, change organizing and leadership mechanisms in contemporary anti-authoritarian movements. He analysed two cases of relatively sustainable movements led by dissidents in Russia and Belarus prior to the Ukraine War. > MORE
On Thursday 23 November 2023, former Journalism Department scholar, Roselyn Du, shared insights from her newly published book, Algorithmic Audience in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2023), on the dynamics of algorithmic news consupmtion. The talk examined algorithmic news consumption from a user perspective and dissected the complex effects caused by such consumption. > MORE
Based on his forthcoming co-edited volume, Women we Love: Femininities and the Korean Wave (2023), Kai Khiun Liew, on Friday 3 November 2023, shared insights on the complexity and autonomy of women artistes in Korean pop culture. His talk highlighted gender dynamics in situating the Hallyu that serves to give otherwise marginalised women greater visibility as more meaningfully active participants. > MORE
On Friday 6 October 2023, Michael Ng challenged the prevailing narrative that Hong Kong’s freedom of expression is a legacy of British rule of Law. Based on his book Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842–1997) (Cambridge), Ng discussed how Hong Kong came to be a city that championed free speech by the late 1990s. > MORE
HKBU’s CMCR and CUHK’s C-Centre launched a new Chinese Journalism Studies Network to facilitate knowledge exchange and to foster collaborative research on Chinese journalism. A roundtable of established researchers reviewed the current status of the field and suggested new research directions that can illuminate media dynamics in China. > MORE
2022/2023 Talks
- 17 July 2023: Yongren Shi, The University of Iowa; Dong Liu, Senior International News Reporter; Tingying Zheng, Green and Low-Carbon Industry Research Center, China Industry Daily; Yanhui Wang, Reporting Climate Change in a Deglobalizing World: Perspectives, Practices, and Constraints
- 6 June 2023: Xiaoming Fu, Institute of Computer Science, University of Göttingen, Social Computing in the Big Data Era
- 23 May 2023: David Kurt Herold, Department of Media and Communication, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Mosaic Ethnography: Puzzling Lives Together Between Online and Offline China
- 27 April 2023: Tianji Cai, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, Periodicity of Sex Worker Touring: An Image Assisted Analysis
- 26 April 2023: Zhi Tingrong, Zheng Liang, Lin Zhongxuan, Luo Xin, Liu Qian, Huang Yakun, School of Journalism and Communication, Jinan University, Six Jinan University Scholars to Speak at Research Seminar Series
- 21 April 2023: Wu Fei, Fang Xingdong, Zhejiang University, 論數字共通、互聯網與中國式現代化：從「14 億人思維」到「80 億人思維」
- 31 March 2023: Chin-Chuan Lee. Communication, National Chengchi University, On Academic Career
- 24 March 2023: Sibo Liu, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University, Deconstructing Democracy with Authoritarian Imprints: Evidence from Chinese Diaspora on Twitter
- 8 March 2023: Matthieu J. Guitton, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval; Bu Zhong, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, Embracing the Rise of Human-Ai Interactions: Social Impacts of Communication in the Era of Digital Technology
- 7 March 2023: Matthieu J. Guitton, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, An Editor’s Journey in the World of Scholarly Publishing
- 3 March 2023: Jos Bartels, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Re-Visited! The Role of Social Media in Employee Behaviour
- 24 February 2023: Ying Zhu, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hollywood in China
- 29 November 2022: Rita Men, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida, “Effectiveness” and “Excellence” in Public Relations: The Impact of Organizational Leadership and Emerging Technologies
- 25 November 2022: Xiaosui Xiao, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, 改革運動的修辭學探析
- 4 November 2022: Lianjiang Li, Department of Government and International Affairs, Lingnan University, A Few Candid Tips for PhD Students
- 28 October 2022: Guobin Yang, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, How to Study a Pandemic While Living It: Narrative Inquiry and the Wuhan Lockdown
- 25 October 2022: Munmun De Choudhury, Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Does Social Media Support or Worsen Mental Well-Being? Well, It Depends
- 20 October 2022: Richard Xu, Department of Mathematics Hong Kong Baptist University, Probabilistic Community Detection in Social Networks
- 12 October 2022: Fedor Dokshin, Sociology, University of Toronto,Green in the Wallet: Political Identity, Cost Effectiveness, and the Diffusion of Residential Solar
- 5 October 2022: Dhavan Shah, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Digital Traces and Social Ties: How Computational Social Science is Transforming Communication Research
- 16 September 2022: Wayne Xu Weiai, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Studying Digital Traces of State-Affiliated Media in a Time of Global Pandemic and Geopolitical Decoupling
2021/2022 Talks
- 12 May 2022: Jie Li, Humanities, Harvard University, Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era
- 22 April 2022: Drew Margolin, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Informative Fictions: Truth in Misinformation? Implications for Computational Communication Research
- 12 April 2022: Yuriko Saito, Rhode Island School of Design, Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: East-West Studies in Contemporary Living Symposium
- 8 April 2022: Romain Badouard, Université Paris Panthéon-Assas, Platforms Regulation and Free Speech Controversy in Europe
- 8 April 2022: Sai Wang, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hostile Online Interactions and Coping Strategies
- 6 April 2022: Esterina Nervino, Department of English and Department of Marketing, City University of Hong Kong; Valentino Santucci, University for Foreigners of Perugia; Kristen Li, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University; AI and Tech in Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities
- 1 April 2022: Lin Zhu, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, Culture in Strategic Communication
- 1 April 2022: Marina Hassapopoulou, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University, Back to the Future: Exploring Artificial Intelligence’s Creative Potential Through Film Historiography
- 30 March 2022: Cuihua Cindy Shen, Communication, University of California, Davis, Understanding Human Communication Through Big Data
- 23 March 2022: Lei Guo, College of Communication, Boston University, Guns in America, News and Public Opinion
- 22 March 2022: Koh Buck Song, Editor of “One United People”; Matilda Gabrielpillai, Independent Writer and Educator; Yong Han Poh, PhD Student (Anthropology), University of Oxford;National Unity and Multiracial Harmony: Are these Foundational Principles Still Meaningful in Global-City Singapore?
- 18 March 2022: Andrew Gambino, Department of Communication Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Personal Media: Advancing the Study of Communication, Relationships, and Social Technologies
- 10 March 2022: Amanda D. Lotz, Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Key Concepts for Investigating Streaming Video
- 3 March 2022: Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, New York University, Dreams of Flight: The Great Escape in American Film and Culture
- 1 March 2022: Colin Sparks, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University,Chinese Newspaper in the Digital Age
- 25 February 2022: Xi Tian, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, Supportive Communication and Well-Being in the Context of Non-Normative Stressors
- 22 February 2022: Colin Sparks, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, De-Westernizing Media Studies
- 15 February 2022: Colin Sparks, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, How to Write a Doctoral Thesis
- 8 February 2022: Colin Sparks, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, How to Publish a Scholarly Article
- 28 January 2022: Weiyu Zhang, Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Civic Tech: An Asian Perspective
- 29 November 2021: Xinzhi Zhang, Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Media’s Coverage of Political Polarization and Its Effects on People’s Political Attitudes and Behaviors
- 26 November 2021: Colin Sparks, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, International Comparisons in Media and Communication Studies
- 26 November 2021: Keonyoung Park, Department of Communication Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Signaling, Verification and Identification: How Corporate Social Advocacy Generates Brand Loyalty on Social Media?
- 23 November 2021: Noshir Contractor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, People Analytics: Using Digital Exhaust from the Web to Leverage Network Insights in the Algorithmically Infused Workplace
- 9 November 2021: Shuhua Zhou, Radio and Television Journalism, Missouri School of Journalism, News and Affordances, Action Potential and Cognitive Support
- 5 November 2021: Elina R. Tachkova, Department of Communication Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Moral Outrage in Crisis Communication: The Interconnectedness of Crises and Scandals
- 29 October 2021: Kenny Ng, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University, Book Talk: Hong Kong Cinema with Sino-Link in Politics, Art, and Tradition
- 22 October 2021: Colin Sparks, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, Navigating the Wilderness of Theories
- 15 October 2021: Damian Tambini, London School of Economics, A Theory of Media Freedom
- 17 June 2021: Dorothy Lau, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University, Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks: Voice, Ethnicity, Power