The University of Southern Californias Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism hosts the 10th Annual Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC10) May 21-23, 2012.
Submissions may come from any discipline. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Industry involvement gaming, youth, social media; consumption patterns, online popular culture; China as original developer in gaming products;
- Governance issues state regulation and content controls; e-government and m-government; civil society and Internet governance; China and global Internet governance;
- Online social movements social media and grassroots activism; micro blogging and its impact across traditional Internet portals and start-ups over the new generation of Chinese digital natives;
- Ten years in retrospect review of developments in digital/social media and prognoses for the future of the internet
We will accept three categories of English-language submissions:
- Full papers these should be 2025 pages long with a maximum of 10,000 words.
- Extended abstracts these should be 7501,000 words.
- Panel submissions these should have a maximum of 2,000 words.
The deadline for submissions is Jan. 30, 2012. mw
