8:30 -9:00 Registration
9:00-9:20 Opening Speech
Anthony Fung, Professor, Beijing Normal University
9:20-12:00 Keynote Speeches Moderator: Anthony Fung
9:20-9:50 Studying Games: Methodological Challenges from a Humanities Perspective
Espen Aarseth (Professor, IT University of Copenhagen)
9:50-10:20 Explaining the user experience of news recommender systems: Implication for user-centered algorithm
Dong-hee Shin (Professor, Chung-Ang University)
10:20-10:50 Tea Break
10:50-11:20 Digital Methods to Understand the Interoperability Mandate: How do we research what we can’t see?
Dr. Jonathon Hutchinson (The University of Sydney )
11:20-11:50 Visualizing the entrepreneurial networks of international entertainment in Hong Kong, 1956–1965: regional perspectives on performance, data and visualization
Dr. Jonathan Bollen (University of New South Wales)
12:15-13:30 Lunch
14:00-15:40 Invited Talks Moderator: Wei He
14:00-14:20 Media Convergence in Journalism: A Case Study of Tencent
By Lai-Chi Chen (Professor, Cheung Kong of Journalism and Communication, Shantou University)
14:20-14:40 The Miscommunication in Chinese Digital Culture
By Ge-Hao Zhang (Assistant Professor, Humanities and Arts,Macau University of Science and Technology)
14:40-15:00 Televised Media Image of Chinese People in Contemporary South Korean Media
By Shu-Le Cao (Associate Professor, Tsinghua University)
15:00-15:20 Can we agree on data-driven journalism? Opinion polarization in the representation of data-driven journalism in the Twittersphere
By Xin-Zhi Zhang (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University)
15:20-15:40 The Interface of Digital Animated Expressions: The Explosive Popularity of Political Memes on Wechat
By Chun-Ning Guo (Lecturer, Department of Design, Renmin University)
15:40-16:00 Tea Break
16:00-17:40 Invited Talks "Computational Approaches to Opinion Dynamics" Moderator: Lun Zhang
16:00-16:20 Rumormongering of Genetically Modified (GM) Food on Chinese Social Network
By Nai-Peng Chao (Professor, Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University)
16:20-16:40 Online Ballot Stuffing: Influence of Self-boosting Manipulation on Rating Dynamics in Online Rating Systems
By Lun Zhang (Associate Professor, Department of Digital Media, Beijing Normal University)
16:40-17:00 Issue Competition on Social Media in China: The Interplay Among Media, Verified Users, and Unverified Users
By Pian-Pian Wang (Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Shenzhen University)
17:00-17:20 Jumping onto the Bandwagon of Collective Gatekeepers: Testing the Bandwagon Effect of Information Diffusion on the Social News Website
By Cheng-Jun Wang (Associate Professor, Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University)
17:20-17:40 Opinion Expression Strategies in Social Media
By Si-Yuan Ma (Doctoral Student, Michigan State University)
17:40-19:00 Welcome Dinner
14th, October, 2018 (All in Chinese)