2nd Annual Sino-U.S. Forum
Journalism in the Global Media Environment: Comparative Online & Social Media
July 9, 2014
University of Hawai'i - Peking University
Keynote Speaker: Yunji de Nies
Yunji de Nies co-anchors KITV4 News at 6 and 10 p.m. She joined KITV from ABC News, where she worked most recently as a national correspondent based in Atlanta. Before that, she served as a White House Correspondent for the network, covering the presidencies of Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Those assignments took her around the world, but she always knew she wanted to come home to Hawai‘i. Yunji grew up on O‘ahu and in Kona on the Big Island. Her first on-camera experience was at age 4, in local commercials for Ala Moana Center, but it wasn’t until college at Yale University that she discovered her passion for news. Yunji worked at the campus radio station and graduated with honors in political science and then earned a master’s degree in Journalism from University of California at Berkeley.
Yunji landed next in Atlanta as a local news producer and later in New Orleans as a reporter for the ABC affiliate, WGNO. When Hurricane Katrina hit, she reported on the immediate events, and then reported on the aftermath and recovery for a year after the storm. Yunji is an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association. When not in the newsroom, you can find her exploring O‘ahu’s many hiking trails, or spending time with family along the Big Island’s Kohala coast.
Special Speaker: TIAN Wei
TIAN Wei hosts CCTV NEWS’ two flagship programs: a daily in-depth discussion program “Dialogue,” and a Sunday global debate show, “World Insight.” She is based in Beijing.
She has had exclusive interviews with heads of state and international figures from all walks of life, such as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Dr. Henry Kissinger. She has covered important domestic and international events: Beijing Olympic Games, China’s 60th Anniversary, World Climate Change Summit.
She has received numerous awards, including China’s National Journalism Award, National Award for International Broadcasters, and CCTV Host of the Year. She has been actively involved in issues of human development, poverty alleviation, and gender parity. She is honored by the United Nations Development Program as the China Special Advisor. She is also a “Young Global Leader with the Davos Economic Forum.”
Before joining CCTV, she worked in Washington, D.C., as a correspondent, the only female Washington correspondent from China at the time. From there, she also covered the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prior to that, TIAN Wei worked in radio broadcasting. She founded China’s first foreign language radio talk show.
Ann Auman
Ann Auman is a Professor and the Chairman of the School of Communications at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa where she teaches media ethics and multimedia reporting, editing and contemporary journalism issues. Her research interests include news literacy and ethics in a cultural context; race, ethnicity and local identity in Hawai‘i; and English-language media in China. Auman has been a professor at UHM since 1991 and also has 10 years of journalism and public relations experience. She has lived in China (including Hong Kong), Canada, Switzerland and Japan. PhD (Political Science) MA (Asian Studies) University of Hawai’i at Mānoa; MBA, University of Toronto. She has published in a variety of journals, including Newspaper Research Journal, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, International Journal of Education.
Dr. Denise Eby Konan is Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is a Research Fellow and previous Director of the Energy & Greenhouse Gas Solutions research program at the UH Economic Research Organization and founding Director of the Center for Sustainable Coastal Tourism at UHM’s Sea Grant College Program.
As a noted international trade economist, Konan has worked extensively in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa as a consultant to the World Bank, the Council of Foreign Relations, the Arab League, and governments of Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and Hawai‘i. Her research interests are regional economic integration, trade in services, intellectual property rights, foreign direct investment and energy. An award winning teacher, Dr. Konan has served as the UHM Interim Chancellor and Assistant Vice Chancellor. She received her undergraduate degree from Goshen College and her doctorate from the University of Colorado.
SHI Zengzhi
SHI Zengzhi is a Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University; doctoral supervisor; executive director of Center for Civil Society Studies; director of Centre for Public Communication and Social Development; and co-founder, Peace China Foundation. She holds a master’s degree in Library and Informatics Science and a PhD from the Department of Information Management, Peking University. She was Visitor Researcher at the University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand, and The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), at the Computer and Communication School, in Sweden. Her research areas include media studies, new media empowerment and civil society. She has authored and co-authored four monographs and numerous academic articles and is the recipient of several major publications and teaching awards in China. She launched the Peace China Public Communication Awards in 2013.
Jenifer Winter
Jenifer Sunrise Winter is an Associate Professor in the School of Communications at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research focuses on communication rights, in particular privacy in the context of the Internet of Things. Related research addresses broadband access rights, freedom of expression, and the Internet as a support of democratic institutions and publics. She received the PhD from the Interdisciplinary Program in Communication and Information Sciences and the MLIS from the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She also received the AB from Occidental College. Prior to joining the School of Communications, she worked for the Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance and in commercial radio. She is secretary of the Right to Communicate Group.
WANG Xiuli is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University. Her research interests include social media, public opinion and international public relations. She has published in both English and Chinese journals such as Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Computers in Human Behavior, American Journal of Media Psychology, Chinese Journal of Communication, Peking University Education Review, and Advertising Research. Her most recently published book is Social Media for Social Good: Cases and Best Practices. She holds a doctoral degree in mass communication from S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communication, Syracuse University, a master’s degree in communication, and double bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations, all from Peking University.
Wayne Buente is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communications at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His research examines information and communication technologies (ICTs) from a sociotechnical perspective. He is interested in issues related to digital citizenship, digital inequality and social media. He is collaborating to research how homeless individuals in Honolulu acquire and use ICTs to facilitate social connection and support. In the area of digital citizenship, he has applied the concept to the South Caucasus to study how effective Internet use leads to improved social and political outcomes. He is also studying how digital inequality and skill development affect audience construction on social media by surveying social media practices by college students. His PhD is in Information Science from Indiana University; MSI in Information from University of Michigan.
Wayne Buente
WANG Xiuli (Charlene)
LI Kun is currently Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University. She has taught courses such as International Communication; Chinese Media and Society; Research Methods in Communication; Media, Culture and Society; among others at various Chinese and international universities. Her research interests are comparative media systems, U.S. media and society. She has been a visiting scholar to universities in Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Australia, U.S., Hong Kong, etc.
HE Shu is an Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University. She teaches English News Reading, Advanced News Commentary, and Public Speaking. Her research interests include comparative studies in Western and Chinese media, cross-cultural media, lobby studies and public speaking. She has been to more than 20 countries as a visiting scholar, lecturer, recruiter, U.S. professional examination China chief observer, and U.S. university program coordinator. On Peking University’s 110th anniversary, she published a book in English titled, “Discovering Peking University: Heritage, Innovation, and Impact.” She writes a regular bilingual column for China’s educational magazine “University Academic” and has interviewed university presidents from Yale University to her recent interview with Tom Apple, Chancellor of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She received her undergraduate and PhD degrees from PKU.
Francis Dalisay is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa School of Communications. He is an international communication effects scholar who currently conducts social scientific research pertaining to communication-related antecedents and outcomes of public attitudes, stereotypes, offline and online public engagement, opinion expression, and indicators of social capital — particularly, among residents of the Pacific Islands. His research has been published in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, New Media & Society, and the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Dalisay was born in the Philippines and raised in Guam. He is a graduate of the University of Guam (BA) and Washington State University (PhD, MA).
Francis Dalisay
HE Shu
LI Kun
CUI Kai is a Doctoral Candidate at the School of Journalism & Communication, Peking University and expects to receive the PhD degree in 2015. His research interests focus on research methodology for communication studies. In 2009 he began to research mobile phone usage. CUI has both quantitative and qualitative research experience in over 16 cities all over China. CUI’s thesis, “The Influence Model of Mobile Phone Use and Mobile Phone Dependency,” received the first-place prize at the Procter & Gamble Thesis Competition in 2010. He was the holder of the National Scholarship for Doctoral Candidates in 2012, and is the co-author of the books: “The Happening Future: the Groups,” and “Trends of Mobile Phones Users, The Evolution and Reform of Mobile Phone Users and Unlimited Future: Deconstruction of the Industry from Mobile Phone Users’ Perspective.”
Misa Maruyama is a PhD student in the Communication and Information Sciences Program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She researches social media and political deliberation in the Hawai‘i Computer-Human Interaction Laboratory. She has studied hybrid media, open data and social network sites using field experiments, think-aloud protocols, interviews and social network analysis. Previously Maruyama worked as a TV journalist and print reporter in California and New Mexico. She holds a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the University of San Diego.
Misa Maruyama
CUI Kai (Sky)
Denise Konan