Christos Frangonikolopoulos
Professor of International Relations at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Aristotle University and Holder of the Jean Monnet Chair on European Integration Journalism

Christos Frangonikolopoulos is Professor of International Relations at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Aristotle University and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair on European Integration Journalism (http://jeanmonnetchair.jour.auth.gr/?page_id=2112). He is also the Director of the English-taught Master of Arts (MA) in Digital Media, Communication and Journalism (http://media.jour.auth.gr) at the University of Aristotle is the first of its kind among Greek public Universities (http://media.jour.auth.gr), He studied Politics and Government (BA Honors) and International Relations (PhD) at the University of Kent at Canterbury (England).

Nikos Panagiotou
Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Media Communication, Faculty of Economic and Political Sciences, Aristotle University and DAAD Scholar to Deutsche Welle

Dr. Nikos S. Panagiotou is Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Media Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has been a DAAD Scholar at Deutsche Welle, Chevening Scholar of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office UK, RCAP Scholar from APU University Japan, Scholar to Beijing Foreign Studies University, Scholar at Sabanci University (Turkey), Scholar of the State of Luxembourg. He has an extensive research work which has been funded from Google (DNI Initiative fund). He is the initiator and organizer of Thessaloniki International Media Summer Academy and in charge of Digital Communication Network Global and Director of Peace Journalism Lab School of Journalism and Mass Media Communication, Aristotle University. He has a track record research and project work regarding disinformation, Fake News Hunters, Refugees against disinformation etc.

Shin Dong Kim
Professor, The Media School, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea & Chief Director, Knowledge Cooperative for Good Governance, Seoul, Korea

Shin Dong Kim is a professor at the School of Media and Communication, Hallym University, Korea. He founded the Institute for Communication Arts and Technology (iCat) and served as the Vice President for International Affairs for the university. He has been an active advocate and innovator for the globalization of higher education throughout his professional career. His area of research and teaching covers culture and creative industries, media policy and political economy, global communications, and film studies. He is currently leading a five-year national research project on modeling the Korean ICT developments. He is preparing a book on the political economy of the Korean media industries and culture, and writing on colonial experiences represented on the Korean cinema. Dr. Kim has also been teaching at many universities globally including Dartmouth College, Sciences Po Paris, Peking University, City University of Hong Kong, University of the Philippines, Shanghai University, etc. Dr. Kim earned his PhD from Indiana University in Mass Communications.

Aphrodite Salas
Associate Professor, Concordia University - Department of Journalism

Aphrodite Salas is Associate Professor of Journalism at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where her research focuses on collaborative forms of visual journalism and more specifically, the decolonization of journalism education. Current projects include multimedia collaborations with the Inuit community of Inukjuak, the First Nation community Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek and CTV Montreal. Her most recent work is called: “Arctic Shift to Clean Energy,” and shares a story of Inuit climate leadership. The documentary, “Innavik: Leading the way to a clean energy future,” was screened at COP 27, the UN Climate Conference in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, as well as COP 15, the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, Canada. 

A veteran journalist with decades of experience in news and feature reporting, Prof. Salas spent most of her on-air career at CTV, Canada's largest privately owned network. She has worked as a national correspondent, anchor, video journalist and assignment editor in small, medium, large and national markets. Her industry honours include five RTDNA awards for excellence in news reporting.

Prof. Salas is also a workshop leader and trainer for the Journalists for Human Rights Misinformation Project, focusing on media literacy and digital investigation. She has trained hundreds of journalism students, journalists and policy experts on how to identify misinformation and disinformation online.

Holger Briel
Professor of Cultural Theory and Media Studies at BNU-HKBU-UIC

Professor Dr Holger BRIEL is currently Professor of Cultural Theory and Media Studies at BNU-HKBUUIC. Until 2022 he served as the Dean of the School of Culture and Creativity at BNU-HKBU-UIC. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Theory from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a B.A. in English and German from Eberhardt-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany. He has published copiously in media and cultural studies, philosophy, the social sciences, and international management studies and remains active as a journalist for several international newspapers. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the influential Scopus-listed IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies and sits as an Editor and Joint Editor on many journal boards. Furthermore, he is the recipient of numerous prestigious research grants and fellowships.

Dejan Pralica
Full-time Professor at the Department of Media Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad

Dejan Pralica, PhD – Full-time Professor at the Department of Media Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. He teaches Radio journalism, Media discourse analysis, Nonverbal communication, Media literacy, Business communication, Protocol and persuasive skills, Critical discourse analysis and Media messages deconstruction.

He received his PhD at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade (Journalism an Communication Science, 2010). He has a master's degree (2005) and a bachelor's degree (2001)  at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad (Linguistics Science). He has published three monographs “Radio discourse”, “Who did media choose, and what the parties offered” and “About Journalism and Journalists 2^nd Edition” (co-author), many papers in international journals and proceedings.

Areas of interest: radio journalism, media literacy, discourse analysis and nonverbal communication. He worked as a professional journalist and editor (1997-2009) at the Radio 021.

Aysegul Akaydin Aydin
Academician, Assoc. Professor

Ayşegül Akaydın Aydın, Assoc. Prof., studied Television Journalism (B.A) in Istanbul Bilgi University and Media Management (M.A.) in Marmara University. She got her PhD degree from Radio-TV Cinema department in İstanbul University. She worked as research assistant in İstanbul Bilgi University between 2009-2017. She has been working as associate professor at İstanbul Aydin University, Journalism department, Faculty of Communication. She also has been working at Istanbul Bilgi University New Media department as a part time lecturer. Akaydin also lectured at Klaipeda University in Lithuania with Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Programme and she participated in summer academy programme at Thessaloniki International Media Academy both in 2019. She has published numerous articles in top-tier academic journals.

Darren Chan
Doctoral Student, Temple University

Darren Chan is a doctoral student at the Klein School of Media and Communications at Temple University, USA. His research interests include political satire, popular culture and Hong Kong media.

Before commencing his doctoral study, Darren has held teaching positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Metropolitan University.

Darren received his bachelor degree in Organizational Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University, and a masters degree in Politics and Communication at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Eleni Siapikoudi
MA Student/ Working on FNF

Jimmyn Parc
Associate professor, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Jimmyn Parc is an associate professor at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. Prior to joining the University of Malaya, he was a visiting lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, France and a researcher at the Institute of Communication Research, Seoul National University. He received a Ph.D. in international studies (with focus on international business and strategy) from the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Seoul National University, Korea and another in economic history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), France. He has published numerous academic articles and conducted several research projects related to the competitiveness of organizations, industries, and countries. His current research focuses on the cultural industries of Asia and Europe, which includes films, dramas, and music, and their evolution in the midst of a changing business and trade environment as well as new challenges in the form of digitization. Professor Parc is also the co-author of The Untold Story of the Korean Film Industry: A Global Business and Economic Perspective, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021. 

Jing Zhang
Graduate student, Television School, Communication University of China

Jing Zhang is a graduate student of the Television School, Communication University of China, focusing on cultural communication. In 2023, he was invited to participate in the Revisiting Global/Local Communities 3rd Media Anthropology Conference hosted by UIC.

He has participated in the following research projects as a key member: 
Research on innovative digital reading services for all people (national level),Research on innovative communication of intangible cultural heritage of "Ancient City of Quanzhou" (university level),Research on the evolution and integration of cultural tourism space under the change of media ecology (university level)，

Neofytos Aspriadis
Adjunct Lecturer of Strategic Communication, University of Patras

Aspriadis Neofytos, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Lecturer of Strategic Communication at the University of Patras. He is also a Research Affiliate at the Center of Information, Technology and Public Life at the University of South Carolina at Chapel Hill researching Disinformation. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Peloponnese conducting research on Strategic Communication in International Crises with a focus on domestic home front management. He got his Ph.D. with a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece (IKY) from the Department of International and European Studies of the University of Piraeus. Formerly, he worked for the private sector in Corporate and Political Communication agencies and at the Public Affairs and Strategic Communication Advisor’s Office of the President of the Military Committee at NATO HQ in Brussels. His research interests are in Strategic Communication, Crisis Management and Communications, nation branding, public diplomacy, Strategy, information warfare, psychological operations, Fake news, disinformation, character assassination, and rhetoric.

Email: asprto@gmail.com 

Nur Emine Koc
Academician, Associate Professor

Nur Emine Koç, born in 1980, in İstanbul, has her BA and MA degree in English Language and Literature Department. She got her Phd degree on Communication Studies, Maltepe University in 2016 with the thesis of “An Example of Reality Shows on TV within the Context of Consumption Culture: Evim Şahane Program”. She got her Assoc. Prof degree in April, 2023. Between 2002-2009, she worked as an English teacher at colleges and in 2010, she continued her career as a lecturer in İstanbul Aydın University and after getting her degree as an Assistant Prof Doctor in 2016, not only has she given different kind of courses to vocational school, BA, MA and PhD students, but also she has many administrative duties such as Vice Manager at Foreign Languages Vocational School, Head of Foreign Languages and Cultures Department, Head of Applied English and Translation, Head of English Translation Department, Vice Manager at New Media and Application and Research Center. Having a lot of studies on New Media field, especially on digital exhaustion and digital culture, Koç has been the Head of New Media and Communication Department both for BA and MA degree students in Communication Faculty of İstanbul Aydın University since 2020. She also volunteers as the Film and TV Series Analysis Supervisor of “Let's End Violence Together” Platform.

Yiming Wang
PhD candidate, Maastricht University

EDUCATION
Maastricht University
PhD in Arts, Culture and Media 2021 – Now
Dissertation in process: Fandom and Participatory Censorship: Boys’ Love fiction and globalized activities
across the Great Firewall of China
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Master of Philosophy in Gender Studies 2018 – 2021
Dissertation: “Participatory censorship” in Weibo: Activities and divergences in Chinese internet BL groups
(2011-2020)
Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Studies 2014 – 2018
Dissertation: “From edge to mainstream: The commercialization of BL adaptations”
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Translation of “Feminist Philosophy” Entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,

Translator Apr. 2020 – Sep. 2021

• Translating the sub-entries of Introduction, Class and work, Feminism and power, and Globalization into Chinese
• Proofreading the sub-entries of Disability, Rape, Liberal feminism, and Body

• Collected and organized background information
  
• Transcribed the interview recordings
• Coordinated the production of the website “Feminist, Queer and Media in China”

Summer research in Cultural Studies,
Research Assistant May 2017 – Aug. 2017

• Gathered materials and synthesized data of time-travel series and black humor literature
  
• Formulated an abstract for the thesis of time-travel series study
  
• Summarized and organized the main content of Durham and Kellner’s Book Media and Cultural Studies: Keywords
  

PUBLICATION

• Wang, Yiming and Jia Tan. 2023. “Participatory Censorship and Digital Queer Fandom: The
  Commercialization of Boys’ Love Culture in China”. International Journal of Communication. 2554–
  2572.
  

Evangelos Theodorou
Journalist / Political Communication Consultant

My name is Evangelos Theodorou. I am 24 years old.

I hold a bachelor’s degree in “Journalism and Mass Communication” with distinction (8.5/10), and a master’s degree in “Digital Media,Communication and Journalism” with distinction too (89/100), from School of Journalism and Mass Communication (A.U.Th.).

Getting prepared to start my PhD thesis next autumn, on Social Psychology and Media Effects, regarding European Union issues.

I have worked as a journalist, digital media manager, political communication specialist.

Evlambia Angelou
Sign Language Interpreter

Evlambia Angelou is a greek Sign Language Interpreter and independent researcher. MA in Contemporary
Journalism Studies.

Fanchun Meng
MA student

Fanchun Meng is an MA student in Journalism and Communication and B.Eng. in Ecological Engineering of Environment. He graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University this year and participated in several health communication studies and internships in multinational pharmaceutical companies during his graduate studies. His research interests are in science communication to study how technology and digital media interact with society to influence human cognition and how information inequalities between urban and rural areas increase health inequalities.

George Athanasopoulos
Researcher

George Athanasopoulos (PhD University of Edinburgh 2013) is a Lehrbeauftragter at the Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Medienwissenschaft at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and a researcher at the Erich von Hornbostel Audio Emergence Lab. He has conducted fieldwork research in NW Pakistan, Greece, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Papua New Guinea. He has been a fellow of the Marie Curie Foundation, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, I.K.Y. (A.U.Th.), and the University of Edinburgh. His research results have been published in, among others, PLoS One, the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Music & Science, Psychology of Music, Musicae Scientiae, Empirical Musicology Review, and Song and Popular Culture. His current research concerns how music affects and is affected by socio-cultural factors.

Link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/George-Athanasopoulos-9 

Dimitrios Bouras
Social Anthropologist, photographer and documentarian

DIMITIRIOS BOURAS (b.1965), is a Social Anthropologist, photographer and documentarian working on long term projects which focus on humanitarian issues, conflict and war around the globe. 

He has chronicled the world’s most troubled territories since 1981. His work has taken him to the Balkans, the greater zone of Caucasus Eurasia (ex-Soviet Union), the Sub-Saharan Africa, and especially the Middle East.

His current post-doc research, “Beyond Dichotomies: Reassembling Global Challenges through the Local”, is a comparative study that investigates the new form of war: hybrid/‛undeclared war’. He follows developments in the Middle East and in the greater zone of Caucasus – Eurasia, to draw conclusions about the changing nature of modern warfare.

Since 2010, started including in his focus Healthcare – researching on epidemics and the epidemic process: His 2010~2013 research includes the results of a field study among homeless IDU population in Athens, titled “Accusing the Victims of Being the Perpetrators” He investigated the TB & MDR-TB Epidemic in Ukraine, the outcome of which, culminated in the creation of a documentary titled “Forgotten Youth, Ukraine (Human Concerns Award at New York TV & Film Festival 2019). During 2019, he participated on a documentary on assignment for CSIS) “on the Brink of a New HIV/AIDS Epidemic” (filming in USA, S. Africa, and Ukraine). 

His latest Anthropological research explores the theme of insularity and what defines island identities in the Eastern Mediterranean, the outcome of which, culminated in the creation of a documentary titled “Being an Islander” (2022) on commission for Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.

Dimitrios is a frequent lecturer and essayist at several academic institutions and international conferences.

Catalina Uribe Rincón
Professor

Catalina Uribe Rincón is an Assistant professor at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. 

She received her PhD in Communication Studies (Rhetoric and Public Culture) from Northwestern University, United States. Her research focuses on Political Communication, Visual Rhetoric and Journalism Studies. She has a special interest in the power of the media and the construction of public characters through media narratives. She has published articles about media and disinformation, presidential rhetoric and public opinion in Latin America, and about government communication and media coverage during war times, especially during the Colombian armed conflict. She has been a weekly columnist for El Espectador Newspaper since 2013

Jing Cai
Associate Professor, Faculty of International Media， Communication University of China

Jing Cai received her PhD at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication in Fudan University, and finished a post-doctor research in Renmin University of China. She has a master's degree and a bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication in Wuhan University and she has been a visiting scholar in Missouri Journalism School of Missouri University. Her area of research and teaching covers rumor research ,risk communication ,social media and network society. She has published one monographs “Rumor : Communication in the shadow” and completed two translation books on “Network Society”. Currently she is preparing a book on rumor spreading of modern.

Nemo Kim
Independent Scholar\

Teaching Experience in the UK

• Lecturer of Asian Studies, University of London (1995-2001)
• Lecturer, UK Diplomatic Services (1996-2000)
• Lecturer of Cross Cultural Communication, Samsung Europe Headquarters, London (1995-1999)
• Special lectures in Korean Cinema and popular culture at Ca Poscari University of Venice and Leiden University, the Netherlands (2001 and 2013)

Teaching Experience in Korea

• Lecturer, International Studies Dept, Soonchunhyang University (2019-Present)
• Lecturer, Film Subtitling, Literature Translation Instutute of Korea (2020-2021)
• Lecturer of Korean Cinema, Korean Popular Culture, Hanguk Univ. of Foreign Studies
• (2002-2019)
• Lecturer of Advanced English Presentation, Graduate School of Interpretation, Seoul Graduate School (2010)
• Lecturer of Social Issues, Korean Cinema, Korea University (2002)
  

Broadcasting/Journalism Experience

• Editor-in-Chief, Kritique (2023-Present)
• Journalist, The Guardian (2014-2022)
• Contributing Journalist, BBC World Service Radio, BBC World TV (2015-Present)
• Seoul Correspondent, Billboard (2020-Present)
• Korea Correspondent, Variety (2010-2014)
• Contributing Journalist, Int’l News, KBS Radio 1 (2009-2019)
• Contributing Writer for CNN.com Nikkei Asian Review, Monocle
• Seoul Business Correspondent, Asia Business Forecast, NHK World (Japan) (2009-2012)
• News Anchor, <News Today>, KBS World TV (Korea) (2006-2009)
• News Anchor, Arirang Radio and TV (Korea) (2004-2009)
• Editor-in-Chief, Reuters Media Express/TenAsia Korean Wave Desk (2012-2013)
• Editor-in-Chief, <Korean Cinema Today>, Korean Film Council (2012)
• English Editor, Cindi Film Festival (2008)

Film Subtitling/Script Translation 

• “Like You Know It All” (dir. Hong Sang-soo),
• “Ha Ha Ha” (dir. Hong Sang-soo) Recipient of &lt;Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes
• “Deep in the Mountains” (dir. Hong Sang-soo)
• “Oasis” (dir. Lee Chang-dong) Recipient of Special Director’s Award, Venice Int’l Film Festival
• A script by dir. Lee Chang Dong (which has yet to be made into a film. I am unable to refer to the work by its title due to contractual agreement reasons)
• “Jury” (dir. Kim Dong-Ho, former head of the Busan International Film Festival)
• Subtitlted and/or translated 50+ other films and scripts from Korean into English.

TV Translation/Interpretation Work

• BBC World TV <The Third Eye Series> on South Korea
• The US Presidential Election Live on KBS 1TV (2008)
• The US President Inauguration Ceremony and Speech Live on KBS 1TV (2009)

FIlm Festival Work

• Jury member, FIPRESCI SECTION, Busan International Film Festival (2021)
• Programmer, Seoul Int’l Youth Film Festival (2014)
• Translator/interpreter for Hollywood blockbusters (2006-2008)
• Programmer, Special Showcase on Canadian Cinema, Busan Int’l Film Festival (2004)
• Official Interpreter of the Busan Int’l Film Festival, Jeonju Int’l Film Festival, Bucheon Int’l Film Festival, Asiana Int’l Short Film Festival, Seoul Int’l Women’s Film Festival (2001-2014)
• Translator/Interpreter for Bong Joon-ho, Lee Chang-dong, Park Chan-wook, Hong Sang-soo and many other Korean directors at the London Int’l Film Festival (1996-2001)

Association Memberships

• FIPRESCI (General Secretary 2019-2021)
• Korean Association of Film Critics

Education

• MSt in International Relations, University of Cambridge
• MA in Comparative Literature, University of London
• BA in English Literature with Drama, University of London

Steven Youngblood
Director, Center for Global Peace Journalism; Communications and peace studies professor, Park University

Steven Youngblood is the founding director of the Center for Global Peace Journalism at Park University in Parkville, Missouri USA, where he is a communications and peace studies professor. He has organized and taught peace journalism seminars and workshops in 43 countries/territories (30 in person; 13 via Zoom). Youngblood is a three-time Fulbright Scholar (Moldova 2023-24, Azerbaijan 2007, Moldova 2001). He also served as a U.S. State Department Senior Subject Specialist in Ethiopia in 2018. 

Youngblood is the author of “Peace Journalism Principles and Practices” and “Professor Komagum.” He edits “The Peace Journalist” magazine, and writes and produces the “Peace Journalism Insights” blog. He has been recognized for his contributions to world peace by the U.S. State Department, Rotary International, and the World Forum for Peace, which named him a Luxembourg Peace Prize laureate for 2020-21

Chen Ching Cheng
Assistant Professor

Dr. Cheng Chen Ching is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism & Communication and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Asian Studies at Hong Kong Chu Hai College. He transitioned from a career in Economic Journalism to pursue a PhD in Film Studies at Peking University. Later, he obtained his second PhD in Musicology at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Prof. Frith. 

His current research focuses on two areas: the first area involves studying the music scene, history, and culture of Taiwan and ethnic Chinese regions in Southeast Asia. The second area involves investigating the relationship between the history, industrial development, social forms, and narrative styles of Chinese-language cinema.

Regarding sound studies in Taiwan, his research involves organizing historical materials related to Taiwanese music. The primary focus is on comparing the development of Taiwanese music during different historical periods and examining its relationship with regional geopolitical and economic development. Current research topics include the study of overseas Chinese and their nostalgic connection to music, as well as conducting oral history interviews with music collectors from Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Another area of investigation is the historical development of Chinese and Cantonese popular music in Southeast Asia.

His second research interest centers around the history of Taiwanese cinema and the economic model of Chinese cinema. The ongoing research project specifically examines the film industry and history of Shaw Brothers. It provides a comprehensive overview of Shaw Brothers' production and distribution processes, studio construction and operations, screenings, distribution channels, as well as film productions and marketing across different eras

Randy Jay Solis
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Research, University of the Philippines Diliman

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Communication, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2020)
  
• Lion Dr Francis K Pan Scholarship Award 2019/20 and 2018/19
  
• Fellow, 2020 Asian Graduate Student Fellow by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
  
• Master of Arts in Communication, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City (2005)
• Bachelor of Science, Major in Management of Communications Technology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City (2001)

• Oct. 2020 – Present Chair, Department of Communication Research, College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines Diliman
• Dec. 2020 – Present Associate Professor, Department of Communication Research, College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines Diliman
• Jan. 2018 – July 2020 Editorial Assistant, Chinese Journal of Communication
• July 2012 – May 2014 College Secretary, College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines Diliman
• Mar. 2009 – Mar. 2010 Mass Media/Behavior Change Communication Specialist, Health Promotion and Communications Project (HealthPRO) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• Feb. – Dec. 2008 Senior Programme Assistant, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Communication Section
• Jun. 2004 – Apr. 2008 Instructor, Department of Communication, Ateneo de Manila University

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

• Solis, R. (2022). Now Dating on Steroids: Play and Nostalgia in the Mediatization of Gay Cruising in the Philippines. International Journal Of Communication, 16, 18. Retrieved 
  from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/16000/3863 
  
• Solis, R.J.C. (2020). Cruising through spaces: Exploring the mediatization of gay cruising in the Philippines. Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society, 17(1), 217-246.
  http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/cruising-through-spaces-exploring-the-mediatization-of-gay-cruising-in-the-philippines  
• Solis, R. J. C. & Wong, K. Y. J. (2019). To meet or not to meet? Measuring motivations and risks as predictors of outcomes in the use of mobile dating applications in China, Chinese Journal of Communication, 12(2), 204-223. First published online on October 4, 2018 as DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2018.1498006 
  
• Tolentino, Rolando, Patrick Campos, Randy Jay Solis, and Carlo Gabriel Pangilinan, eds. (2014). Communication and Media Theories. Diliman, Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.
  
• Solis, R. (2007) "Texting Love: An exploration of text messaging as a medium for romance in the Philippines," M/C Journal, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2600 
  
• Solis, R. (2007). Mobile Romance: Exploring a new landscape for courtship in the Philippines. In G. Goggin & L. Hjorth (Eds.), Mobile Media: Proceedings of an international conference on social and cultural aspects of mobile phones, media and wireless technologies (pp. 75-84). Sydney: University of Sydney. 
  
• Solis, R. (2007). Mobile Romance: An exploration of the development of romantic relationships through texting. Mobile and Popular Culture: Conference Proceedings of the Asia Culture Forum 2006, 1-14. 
  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.471.1365&rep=rep1&type=pdf 
  
  

Ioanna Georgia Eskiadi
Ph.D. Candidate in New emerging technologies, Communication and Journalism, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Ioanna Georgia Eskiadi is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Journalism and Media Communication at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and is focused on new immerging technologies, communication and journalism. She is a Research Assistant in the same university where she is occupied in different research programs and in project management. Also, she is part of the Digital Communication Network (DCN) Global. She holds a Master of Arts in Risk Communication and Crisis Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Media, and Communication cum laude with praise of excellence from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has been awarded with scholarships for her undergraduate and postgraduate studies and has been part of fellowships for various organizations. She holds strong in research, communication, and media management gained through her work in NGOs, public and private sectors, and international organizations. Finally, she is fluent in Greek, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Arabic. Her main academic interests include immersive media, new technologies, Tik-Tok, communication, journalism.

Xiao Han
Associate Professor

Xiao Han is currently a Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication at the Communication University of China. She is also a Managing Editor of the SAGE journal Global Media and China. She obtained her PhD in Mass Communication & Journalism from the University of Westminster in June 2016. Her research focuses on the relationship between digital media and women’s empowerment in the Chinese context. She is particularly interested in the role of online platforms in processes of Chinese women’s self-expression, connection and organising, as well as in how the Internet affects the Chinese female/feminist actors’ political participation in gender equality. Her publications have appeared in the Feminist Media Studies, China Information, Global Media and China, and Springer Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change. She has taught a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in media and communication at the Communication University of China. 

Email: han.xiao@cuc.edu.cn 

Chen Ching Cheng
Assistant Professor

Dr. Cheng Chen Ching is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism & Communication and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Asian Studies at Hong Kong Chu Hai College. He transitioned from a career in Economic Journalism to pursue a PhD in Film Studies at Peking University. Later, he obtained his second PhD in Musicology at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Prof. Frith. 

His current research focuses on two areas: the first area involves studying the music scene, history, and culture of Taiwan and ethnic Chinese regions in Southeast Asia. The second area involves investigating the relationship between the history, industrial development, social forms, and narrative styles of Chinese-language cinema.

Regarding sound studies in Taiwan, his research involves organizing historical materials related to Taiwanese music. The primary focus is on comparing the development of Taiwanese music during different historical periods and examining its relationship with regional geopolitical and economic development. Current research topics include the study of overseas Chinese and their nostalgic connection to music, as well as conducting oral history interviews with music collectors from Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Another area of investigation is the historical development of Chinese and Cantonese popular music in Southeast Asia.

His second research interest centers around the history of Taiwanese cinema and the economic model of Chinese cinema. The ongoing research project specifically examines the film industry and history of Shaw Brothers. It provides a comprehensive overview of Shaw Brothers' production and distribution processes, studio construction and operations, screenings, distribution channels, as well as film productions and marketing across different eras

Lei Zhang
Professor

Lei ZHANG is Professor of Communication and Vice director of the National Centre for Communication Innovation Studies at Communication University of China. He got his PhD degree in communication studies from CUC in 2005. He worked as visiting scholars in University of Pennsylvania (2005), City University of Hong Kong (2009), Goldsmiths College, University of London (2011-2012), Seoul National University (2019-2020) and Macau University of Science and Technology (2022). His major research interests include media materiality, philosophy of media technologies, cultural studies, ethnographic studies of the Internet, and theories of international communications. His works include Anxiety and Hope: A media sociological study of urban poverty in Beijing (2008), etc. 

English publications:

• Duan, P., Zhang, L., Song, K., Han, X. (2020). Reflection and Future of Smart Media Communication. SAGE.
• ZHANG Lei, HU Zhengrong. Empire Tianxia and Great Unity: A historical examination and future vision of China's international communication. Global Media and China[J]. 2017(2).197-207.
• HU Zhengrong, ZHANG Lei. Dragon and Elephant: Who will win?: Chindia in the Chinese netizens view. Global Media and Communication[J]. 2010(4).
• Zhengrong H., Lei Z., Deqiang J. Globalization, social reform and the shifting paradigms of communication studies in China[J]. Media, Culture & Society, 2013, 35(1):147-155

Yuming Qin
Professor

As one of National Top 100 Talents in the broadcasting industry, Professor Qin Yuming serves as a supervisor for doctoral degree at Communication University of China, the deputy dean of Television School and a member of the Journalist Ethics Committee of All-China Journalist Association. Also, he was a visiting scholar at the Journalism School, Missouri University.

Professor Qin has long focused on production of documentaries and micro-videos. His news reporting, features, documentaries, experimental films and other types of works won China News Award and got praises in the FIPA, Changchun Film Festival, Shanghai TV Festival, Dozens of his work got international, national and provincial awards, such as Sichuan TV Festival, Beijing Film Festival, Hong Kong Chinese Documentary Film Festival, etc. In addition, he led and participated in more than 20 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, publishing papers of Starlight Award and China Radio and Television Association Award. 

Satomi Sugiyama
Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Franklin University Switzerland

Satomi Sugiyama (Ph.D. Rutgers University) is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Franklin University Switzerland. Her research and teaching interests include emerging communication technologies and interpersonal relationships, culture, and fashion studies. Throughout her career, she has been presenting her research widely in international conferences and events. Her work has been published in such journals as New Media and Society, Fashion Theory, First Monday, and International Journal of Social Robotics, as well as in edited books by Palgrave-Macmillan, Springer, Peter Lang, and Transaction. Her recent publications includes: Sugiyama, S. (2021). The Apparatgeist of Pepper-kun: An exploration of emerging cultural meanings of a social robot in Japan. In J. E. Katz, J. Floyd, & K. Schiepers (eds.), Perceiving the Future through New Communication Technologies: Robots, AI and Everyday Life (pp. 113-128). Palgrave-Macmillan

Sherri Hope Culver
Professor

Sherri Hope Cylver serves as Director of the Center for Media and Informa/on Literacy (CMIL) at Temple University, USA where she is associate professor in the Klein College of Media and CommunicaCon. 

Sherri’s teaching and consulCng focuses on media literacy and media industries, with focus on children's media content. She has consulted with Google Kids & Family, PBS Kids, the Digital CommunicaCons Network, Public Journalism Club of Armenia, Thessaloniki InternaConal Media Summer Academy, and the NaConal AssociaCon for Media Literacy EducaCon. Sherri recently served as vice-chair of the UNESCO InternaConal Steering CommiSee for the Global Media and InformaCon Literacy Alliance and is a collaborator with the Center for Scholars and Storytellers. 

Sherri is a Fulbright Global Scholar for 2022-2023. She is conducting research among scholars and media industry leaders in Brazil, Australia, and the United Kingdom regarding best practice in developing media content for children. 

Sherri’s recent publicaCons include a co-authored chapter in Media Literacy in a Disrup/ve Media Environment (2020) Ctled, “A Snapshot: the state of media literacy educaCon in the US”; and a chapter in the latest ediCon of 20 Ques/ons about Youth and the Media (2019) Ctled, “How are the needs of children considered in children’s media?”. 

Sherri talks with kids about the influence of media in their lives on her podcast Kids Talk Media. She has given talks and presentaCons on five conCnents and over 19 countries on media literacy and children’s media topics and has been interviewed by major news outlets including Variety, Los Angeles Times, ChrisCan Science Monitor, Philadelphia Inquirer, Radio Times (NPR), and KQED Mindshig. Sherri was a 3-term president of the Na/onal Associa/on for Media Literacy Educa/on.

Sherri began her career as a television producer. She held various producCon and management posiCons over twenty-five years, including CEO of Independence Public Media in Philadelphia.