Registration
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Welcome Remarks
Nojin Kwak, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan, USA
Marko Skoric, Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Session 1: Social Media as an Alternative Source of News and Information
Moderator: Natalie Pang, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information,
Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE
9:10 am – 10:30 am
The Consumption and Diffusion of Election News on Twitter: The Case of the 18th Korean Presidential Campaign, by Hyeyon Lee, Department of Communication, Seoul National University, KOREA; Jihye Lee, Department of Communication, Seoul National University, KOREA; and Kyu S. Hahn, Department of Communication, Seoul National University, KOREA
Democratic Potential of China's Micro-Blogging Sites: Deliberativeness and Incivility of Online Comments, by Yanqin Lu, School of Journalism, Indiana University, USA
Information Verification in the Course of the Turkish Gezi Social Movement, by Gulizar Haciyakupoglu, Department of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE, and Weiyu Zhang, Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
Effects of Personalisation and Interactivity on the Perception of Politicians on Instagram, byTerence Heng, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE; Ashley Tay, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE; Goh Yan Hui, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE; Judith Ho, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE; and Younbo Jung, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE
Session 2: Social-Media Based Activism and Pathways to Democratization
Moderator: Tetsuro Kobayashi, Information and Society Research Division,
National Institute of Informatics, JAPAN
10:50 am – 12:10 pm
Mobile Internet Usage and Civic Participation in China, by Yingru Ji, College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, CHINA, and Xinmiao Chen, College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, CHINA
Protesting the Singapore Government: The Role of Collective Action Frames in Social Media Mobilization, by Debbie Goh, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE, and Natalie Pang, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE
Who Participates in Elections in China? Examining the Relationship Between Political Value Orientation and Political Participation, by Fei (Chris) Shen, Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG; Tianjiao Wang, Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG; Ye Lu, School of Journalism, Fudan University, CHINA; and Zhi'an Zhang, School of Communication and Design, Sun Yat-sen University, CHINA
INAYAN: How an Indigenous Social Code Found its Way into the Mobile World, by Dazzelyn Baltazar Zapata, Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
Return on Investment or Social Capital? Comparing Field Experiment Results of a Civil Society SNS Page in Japan, by Muneo Kaigo, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, JAPAN
Social-Media Based Civic Engagement for Dengue Prevention in Sri Lanka, by May O. Lwin, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE; Santosh Vijaykumar, Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE; Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE;Vajira Sampath Rathnayake, Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE; Gentatsu Lim, Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE; and Schubert Foo, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE
Methodology Workshop
Text Mining for New Media Research by Jonathan J. H. Zhu, Web Mining Lab, Dept. of Media & Communication, City University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG; Tai-Quan Winson Peng, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE; and Zhenzhen Wang, Web Mining Lab, Dept. of Media & Communication, City University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Session 3: Social Media, the Public Sphere, and the Prospect of Deliberative Democracy
Moderator: Baohua Zhou, Journalism School at Fudan University,
Fudan University, CHINA
2:50 pm – 4:00 pm
Weibo: From a News Platform to a Space of (Democratic) Citizenship Debates in Contemporary China, by Le (Eileen) Han, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Politics, Polemics and the ‘Internet Hindu’: Identity, Community & Political Speech in the Indian Cyberspace, by Sriram Mohan, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, INDIA
Differential Roles of Offline and Online Discussion in the Political Process: A New Mediation Model, by Chang Sup Park, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
Beyond the Facebook Post: A Critical Analysis of the Online Public Sphere in Singapore, byDickson Su, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE and Natalie Pang, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE
Session 4: Social Media, Political Struggle, and the Clash of Values
Moderator: Scott Campbell, Department of Communication Studies,
University of Michigan, USA
4:00 pm – 5:10 pm
The Effects of SNS Use on Chinese Young Citizens’ Political Participation: Extending the Citizen Communication Mediation Model, Yu Xu, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, CHINA
Bowling Alone or Together? Impacts of Social Media Uses and Organizational Membership on Political Actions, by Xinzhi Zhang, Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG, and Wan-Ying Lin, Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG
Tweets that Matter: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Japan, by Tetsuro Kobayashi, Information and Society Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, JAPAN, and Yu Ichifuji, Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center, Research Organization of Information and Systems, JAPAN
Digit or Fist?: An Analysis of ‘Region’ in Mediatized Politics Of Telangana, by Venkat Nagesh Babu Karri, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, INDIA
Social Media as Political Arena: Framing, Discourse Competition and Power Struggling, byFangzhou Ding, College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, CHINA
Wrap-Up
Nojin Kwak, Department of Communication Studies,
University of Michigan, USA
5:10 pm – 5:20 pm
