The keynote speakers include:
PHILIP KITCHEN: Professor Phillip Kitchen is Director of the Research Centre for Marketing, Communications, and International Strategy (CMCIS) and Chair of Strategic Marketing at Hull University Business School, UK, and an Affiliated Professor in the School of Business, University of Rennes, France, as well as being a Visiting Professor at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He is Editor of the Journal of Marketing Communications, and has published 12 books and over 100 papers in leading journals around the world. Professor Kitchen was listed as one of the “The Top 50 Gurus
who have influenced the Future of Marketing” in Marketing Business, December 2003, pp. 12- 16. He is a fellow of CIM, RSA, HEA; and Member of the ALCS, Institute of Marketing Science, Institute of Directors (UK).
BARBIE ZELIZER: Barbie Zelizer is Professor of Communication, holds the Raymond Williams Chair of Communication and is Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania. A former journalist, Zelizer's work focuses on the cultural dimensions of journalism, with a specific interest in journalistic authority, collective memory, and journalistic images in times of crisis and war. She also works on the impact of disciplinary knowledge on academic inquiry. Professor Zelizer's work focuses on the cultural dimensions of journalism, with a specific interest in journalistic authority, collective memory, and journalistic images in times of crisis and war. She also works on the impact of disciplinary knowledge on academic inquiry. Author and editor of eight books and some 50 articles and book chapters, Zelizer's work has been translated into French, Hebrew, German, Portuguese, Romanian and Japanese. Professor Zelizer is Co-editor and founder of the journal Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism (Sage), and is currently the President- Elect of the International Communication Association.
NICK COULDRY: Nick Couldry is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London where he is Director of the Centre for the study of Global Media and Democracy (
www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/global_medi a_democracy). He was previously in the Departments of Sociology and Media and Communications at the London School of Economics between 2001 and 2006. His interests include media power, ritual dimensions of media, audience research, media ethics and the methodology of cultural studies. He is the author or editor of 7 books, including The Place of Media Power: Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age (Routledge 2000), Media Rituals: A Critical Approach (Routledge 2003), Listening Beyond the Echoes: Media, Ethics and Agency in an Uncertain World (Paradigm Books, USA, 2006) and (with Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham), ad Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He is currently working on books on mediation and society and on voice.
JACK LINCHUAN QIU: Dr. Qiu is an Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His academic interests include Internet and society, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the public sphere, late capitalism, globalization, grassroots media, China, and the Asia Pacific region. Dr. Qiu's current research focuses on the spatial and class formations of ICTs in China's key city-regions and the social practices of wireless technologies in Asia. He is the co-author of the book Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (with Manuel Castells), and provides consultancy services for various international organizations including the OECD.
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