China and the New Internet World: The Eleventh Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC11)

CIRC is an interdisciplinary conference that brings together scholars, analysts, industry leaders, journalists and legal practitioners from around the world to examine the impact of the Internet on Chinese society, including its social, cultural, political and economic aspects, as well as how China is changing the Internet.

CIRC is an interdisciplinary conference that brings together scholars, analysts, industry leaders, journalists and legal practitioners from around the world to examine the impact of the Internet on Chinese society, including its social, cultural, political and economic aspects, as well as how China is changing the Internet. Founded in 2003, the eleventh meeting of the Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) will be held in Oxford, hosted and co-organized by the Oxford Internet Institute, the Programme of Comparative Media Law and Policy, and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford in collaboration with the Steering Committee of the CIRC, the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at USC, the Center for Global Communications Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, the Global Communication Research Institute (GCRI) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Singapore Internet Research Centre at Nanyang Technological University.

CIRC11 will begin with a dinner at Balliol College on 14 June 2013, which follows the ICA Pre-Conference on 'China and the New Internet World'. This conference will be organized by the OII, PCMLP and RISJ, in collaboration with an organizing committee, which will include representatives of CIRC and our academic partners. CIRC11 will continue on Saturday, 15 June with academic panels and presentations from 9am to 5pm, followed by a closing session.

While individuals may register to attend CIRC11 whether or not they are able to attend the ICA Pre-Conference on the 14th (and vice versa), the conferences are designed to flow seamlessly together providing a broad range of current research on the Chinese Internet and drawing prominent researchers to this these consecutive events.

Registration
Those who wish to attend the ICA Pre-Conference should register through the ICA: http://www.icahdq.org/conf/index.asp. Those who wish to attend the CIRC11 Dinner on 14 June or CIRC11 on 15 June should register through: CIRC11 WEB SITE or send an email expressing interest to events@oii.ox.ac.uk with CIRC in the subject heading.

Organizing Committee for CIRC11
Chair
- Bill Dutton, Professor of Internet Studies, OII, University of Oxford

Members
- Peng Hwa ANG, Director, Singapore Internet Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Hu Yong, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University
- Randy Kluver, Exec. Director, International Initiatives, Asia and the Pacific Liaison, and Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University
- Jack Linchuan Qiu, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Wu Mei, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities at the University of Macau
- Victoria Nash, Director of Graduate Studies, and Policy and Research Fellow, OII, University of Oxford
- Robert Picard, Professor, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford
- Nicole Stremlau, Co-ordinator and Research Fellow, and Rogier Creemers, Research Fellow, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre of Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
- Ernest J. Wilson III, Dean and Walter H. Annenberg Chair in Communication, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
- Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, and Monroe Price, Professor and Director, Center for Global Communications Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
- Peter K. Yu, Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law, and founding director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University Law School
- Prof. Zhang Guoliang, Professor and Dean of the Global Communication Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Past Chinese Internet Research Conferences
University of Southern California (CIRC10), Georgetown University (CIRC9), Peking University (CIRC8), the University of Pennsylvania (CIRC7), the University of Hong Kong (CIRC6), Texas A&M University (CIRC5), Nanyang Technological University (CIRC4), Michigan State University (CIRC3), University of California at Berkeley (CIRC2), and the University of Southern California (CIRC1).

Click here to watch presentations of the 10th Annual Chinese Internet Research Conference held at USC in 2012.