Dear All, We invite submissions of proposals for the IAMCR 2022 Beijing preconference on 8 July 2022, entitled "Digital Governance and Transcultural Communications: values and strategies in an era of neo-globalisation, digitalisation and platformisation" organised by School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University In partnership with IAMCR’s Public Service Media Policies Working Group. The conference will be in hybrid online and in person mode, with locations in the XJTLU, Suzhou, China and the University of Sydney, Australia. Registration is free, and will open online on 1st March, 2022. *Abstracts between 300 and 500 words are requested and must be submitted via emails to Dr. Rui Wang at wrui@bnu.edu.cn <wrui@bnu.edu.cn> or Dr. Yik Chan Chin at yik-chan.chin@bnu.edu.cn <yik-chan.chin@bnu.edu.cn>. The deadline for submission of proposals is 10 March, 2022, at 23.59 UTC. * We intend to publish a special issue in an English journal based on the selected papers from this preconference. The detailed CfP is attached in this email. And the website for the preconference and CfP is: *https://iamcr.org/beijing2022/digital-governance <https://iamcr.org/beijing2022/digital-governance>* _________________________ IAMCR 2022 Beijing pre- conference 8 July 2022 Digital Governance and Transcultural Communications: values and strategies in an era of neo-globalisation, digitalisation and platformisation This one-day hybrid preconference aims to explore policy and governance strategies emerging from the development and use of digital communications technologies and their impacts on transcultural communications, with a focus on the themes of neo-globalization, digitalisation and platformisation. It seeks to address some fundamental questions that may help in strengthening digital governance approaches and facilitating safe, productive and inclusive transcultural communications: - What are the critical contests around digital governance of transnational and transcultural communications platforms? How do they exemplify difference in values and ethics between key stakeholders? - What are the crucial components of digital governance strategies, and how are these evolving in light of platformisation? - How can existing institutional, and largely national, models of communications governance adapt to this new context? To what extent are new, international models of governance addressing transcultural communications? What are the best practice examples of new digital governance modalities working in the public interest? How might these benefit public institutions, such as public service media? The preconference will consist of a keynote speech and four panels, drawing on speakers from both inside and outside China, from developed and developing countries. These panels will include discussions on: - Digital governance of the metaverse - Governance of digital communications market access, standards and structures - Governance strategies for safe, inclusive digital transcultural communications - Digital governance and public service media in an era of platformisation Thank you! Best wishes, Yik Chan ---- Recent Articles: Chin, Yik Chan and Li, Ke, A Comparative analysis of Cyber Sovereignty Policies in China and the EU (August 6, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3900752 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3900752 <https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3900752> Yik Chan Chin (2020) Internet governance in China: the network governance approach in Dragan Pavlicevic and Zhengxu Wang (eds.) Social Relations and Political Development in China: Change and Continuity in the 'New Era', London: Routledge. Yik Chan Chin (2018) Legitimation of Media Regulation in China, Chinese Political Science Review. --------- Dr. Yik Chan Chin Associate Professor School of Journalism and Communication Beijing Normal University Beijing, P. R. China Email: yik-chan.chin@bnu.edu.cn https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yik_Chan_Chin http://ssrn.com/author=1377946