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Mobile Studies Congress 2021
Go Mobile, Stay Sustainable

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Building, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Offline: IEB122 (Main Venue, UNNC, China), IEB131/132/125/124 (Partner Sessions via Video links)

Online: Teams (for global) and Zoom (for Australia)

12 November (Friday)

Please register via https://forms.office.com/r/GDiNCXpCSB for Teams link.

Opening Session

Chair: Amira Halperin, Associate Director of Institute for Mobile Studies

08:45-08:55 am (Ningbo, China); 11:45-11:55 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Welcome Speech: Xiaoge Xu, Founding chair of Mobile Studies Congress

08:55-09:00 am (Ningbo, China); 11:55-12:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Opening Speech: Max Schleser, Co-chair of Mobile Studies Congress

 

09:00 -10:00 am (Ningbo, China); 12:00-01:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Keynote Session #1

Chair: Xin Pei, Associate Director of Institute for Mobile Studies

Wei Lu (China), Dean of College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University

                 Mobile Media and Sustainable Development Goals

Chen Xianhong (China), Dean/Professor, Institute for China Innovative Storytelling

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

                Constructing a Meta-Discourse System for Enhancing Chinese Nation Storytelling (in Chinese)

 

10:00-10:20 am (Ningbo, China); 01:00-01:20 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Break

 

10:20 am-11:20 am (Ningbo, China); 01:20-2:20 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Keynote Session #2 (in Chinese)

Chair: Xiaoge Xu, Founder of Mobile Studies International

Long Chen (China), Professor/Dean, School of Communication, Soochow University

Criticism of communicative rationality in the era of interface dependence

Yantao Bi (China), Professor, Hainan University

Strategic Communication and Sustainable Development in the Age of Mobile Media

 

Break    11:20 am-01:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 02:20-3:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

 

02:00 pm-03:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 05:00-06:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Keynote Session #3 (in Chinese)

Chair: Xiaoge Xu, Founder of Mobile Studies International

Jinghua Yuan (China), Professor, Zhejiang University of Technology

How to Communicate: Government and People in the Age of Social Network

Xingdong Fang (China), Professor, Communication University of Zhejiang

Trends and Opportunities in the Next Decade of the Intelligent Era

03:20-04:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 08:20-09:20 am (London, UK)

Keynote Session #4

Chair: Amira Halperin, Associate Director of Institute for Mobile Studies

Wenshan Jia (US), Ph.D. & Professor, Chapman University and Shandong University

Anna Kolotova (Russia), Post-Doctor Fellow, Global Engagement Academy, Shandong University

Global Storytelling, SDGs, and China

Ibrahim Sirkeci (UK), Professor/Director, International British Business School

Human Mobility and Sustainability

 

04:00 pm-04:50 pm (Ningbo, China); 07:00-8:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

SDG Research & Publication Editor Forum #1

Chair: Xin Pei, Associate Director of Institute for Mobile Studies

Anthony Fung (Hong Kong, China), Editor-in-Chief of Global Media and China

Ang Peng Hwa (Singapore), Editor-in-Chief of Asian Journal of Communication

 

MSC2021 Partner Session at Bennett University, India

05:00-06:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 02:30-3:30 pm (Delhi, India), 09:00-10:00 am (London, UK)

Panel #1               Role of Technology in Everyday Mobile Storytelling

Chair: Gloria Khamkar, Bournemouth University, UK  

Nithin Kalorth (India), Bennett University, India

Everyday Documentation: Sustainable use of Mobile Technology in Storytelling

Rahul Dass (India), Bennett University, India

User centric Storytelling: Liberating Technological Paradox

Tapas Badal (India), Bennett University, India

Technology in Mobile Storytelling: Prospects and Possibilities

MSC2021 Partner Session at Soochow University, China

07:00-08:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 10:00-11:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #2               Mobile and Privacy

Chair: Xiaoge Xu, Founding Chair of Mobile Studies Congress

Du Dan, Associate Professor of School of Communication, Soochow University

Privacy Paradox of Mobile Intelligent Media Practice (in Chinese)

Huang Gejun, Lecturer, School of Communication, Soochow University

Contact Tracing App and Mobile Privacy in China

Gao Bowen, lecturer of School of Communication, Soochow University

Officials vs. Fans: Effects and Obstacles of International Communication for Suzhou Image

MSC2021 Partner Session at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia  

Please register via https://forms.office.com/r/AKJaK0AHAp for Zoom link.

10:00-11:00 am (Ningbo, China); 01:00-2:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel # 3 - Visual Stories & Communities

Chair: Hilary Davis, Senior Research Fellow, Social Innovation Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology

Darren Fisher (Melbourne):

Generative Drawing: Mobile Image Making for the 21st Century

Ronald James Baculo (Manila):

Re-Frame Your Mind: Telling Visual Stories of Mental Health Awareness through Mobile

Smartphone Filmmaking"

Farouk Abou Zeid (Egypt):

Primary Stage Kids' Adoption of Mobile Phones in Egypt

11:00 am-12:30 pm (Ningbo, China); 02:00 -3:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #4 – Mobile Cinematic VR & Mobile XR

Chair: John McCormick, Researcher Centre for Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology

Dafydd Sills-Jones (New Zealand)

Y Trydydd Masg [The Third Mask] 360 MCVR

Augustus Raymond Segar (Sarawak)

XR Documentary

Max Schleser (Melbourne): Memoryscapes

12:30 pm (Ningbo, China); 3:30 pm (Melbourne, Australia) 

Break

 

01:00 pm-02:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 4:00 pm- 5pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #5 – Audio Visual Sustainable & Climate Stories 

Chair: Darren Fisher, Department Film, Games and Animation, Swinburne University of Technology

Hilary Davis (Melbourne):

Mobile Storytelling Showcasing Sustainable Food Futures

Anna Wiehl (Germany):

When mindfulness, mobile media and artistic self-expression meet reflections on visual poetry, experiential and experimental learning, and on what connects eco and media literacy

Martin Koszolko (Melbourne):

Documenting and manipulating the sound of local climates through mobile music

technologies

02:30-03:30 pm (Ningbo, China); 05:30-6:30 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #6 – Smartphone Filmmaking

Chair: Felix Gyebi, PhD candidate, Swinburne University of Technology

Aparna Sharma (Los Angles):

Visual Inquiry and Cinematic Reflexivity in Mobile Filmmaking: A Case Study of Still Light

Gavin Wilson (UK):

Distributing Anti-professional Cinema: Negotiating the Circuits and Inter-circuits for Liminal Film Festivals in Online Spaces

Darcy Yuille (Melbourne):

Smartphone Filmmaking & Feature Films

Break    03:00 – 03:20 (Ningbo, China); 06:30 - 07:10 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

 

03:30-04:30 pm (Ningbo, China); 06:30-07:30 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #7 – Emerging Screen Production Formats & Mobile Social Media

Panel Chair: Diana Bossio, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology

Milan Maric Markuza (New Zealand):

Vertical Video

Shuai Li (China)

The remediation on mobile video platform TikTok

Inger Knude Larsen (Denmark)

Live mobile video on closed platforms to subscribers

04:30—5:30 pm (Ningbo, China); 07:30-8:30 pm (Melbourne, Australia) 

Panel #8 – Decolonial & Collaborative Stories

Chair: Shuai Li, PhD candidate, Swinburne University of Technology

Felix Amofa Gyebi (Ghana):

Collaborative Smartphone Filmmaking

Bhavna Pathak (India):

Media Dictionary a Tool for Media Literacy

Dominic Pink (New Zealand):

The Essay Film, Decolonial Practice, and Questions of Authorship 

13 November (Saturday)

Please register via https://forms.office.com/r/GDiNCXpCSB for Teams link.

09:00-9:50 am (Ningbo, China); 09:00-09:50 pm (New York, US, 12 November)  

SDG Research & Publication Editor Forum #2

Chair: Xin Pei, Associate Director of Institute for Mobile Studies

Liang Chen (China), Associate Editor, Environmental Communication

Yang Cheng (US), Guest Editor, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

                                   Guest Editor, Internet Research

09:50-10:40 am (Ningbo, China); 09:50-10:50 pm (New York, US, 12 November)  

SDG Research & Publication Editor Forum #3

Chair: Amira Halperin, Associate Director of Institute for Mobile Studies

Qiaolei Jiang (China), Associate Editor, Technology in Society

Dominic Mentor (US), Editor, Advancing Mobile Learning in Contemporary Educational Spaces

10:40-10:50 am (Ningbo, China); 01:40-02:50 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Break

 

10:50-11:40 am (Ningbo, China); 01:50-02:40 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Mobile Storytelling Symposium #1 (in Chinese)

Village Storytelling, the Mobile Way: Studies from China

Chair: Xiaoge Xu, Founder of Mobile Storytelling Studies 

Wang Song (China), Xiangshan Film and Television College

Construction and Dissemination of Intangible Cultural Heritage-Based on Rural Revitalization

Su Guanhuai (China), Xiangshan Film and Television College

An interpretation of the documentary on biodiversity conservation figures of Xishuangbanna

Tropical Rainforest in Yunnan Province

Zhuang Pingping, (China), Xiangshan Film and Television College

Chinese Villages: Rural Aesthetics and Cultural Revitalization

11:40-01:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 03:00-04:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Break

01:00-01:50 pm (Ningbo, China); 04:00-04:50 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Mobile Storytelling Symposium #2

City Storytelling, the Mobile Way: Experience from Expatriates in Ningbo 

Chair: Liu Hao, Program Director, Zhejiang Business Technology Institute

Coretta Jarteh, Founder & CEO of Speak Life Arts & Culture

Social Media as Tool to Bridging the Cultural and Social Gap for Foreigners in Ningbo:

A Speak Life Perspective

Stephen DeMarsh, Creative Director

Localized Mobile Storytelling on Douyin

Matthew Charles Galat, JaYoe World Tour

                Connecting the world through video storytelling (recorded presentation)

01:50-02:40 pm (Ningbo, China); 04:50-05:40 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Mobile Storytelling Symposium #3

Nation Storytelling, the Mobile Way: Studies from China 

Chair: Amira Halperin, Associate Director of Institute for Mobile Studies

                Xiaoge Xu, Editor, Nation Storytelling, the Mobile Way: Studies from China

                Tingting Shen, Assistant editor, Nation Storytelling, the Mobile Way: Studies from China

                Tiankai Tang, Assistant editor, Nation Storytelling, the Mobile Way: Studies from China

02:40-02:50 pm (Ningbo, China); 05:40-05:50 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Break

 

02:50-03:40 pm (Ningbo, China); 05:50-06:40 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #9               Sustainable Mobile Education and Sustainable Fashion

Chair: Xin Pei, Associate Director of Institute for Mobile Studies

Shanru YANG, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Sustainable Mobile Education in China: Stay Connected, Stay Learning

Naziat Choudhury, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Sustainable fashion: Producer and Consumers’ part in creating green wardrobe

3:40-04:30 pm (Ningbo, China); 06:40-07:30 pm (Melbourne, Australia),

8:40-9:30 pm (Auckland, New Zealand)

Panel #10            Mobile Health Interventions and Mobile Pedagogy

Chair: Amira Halperin, Associate Director of Institute for Mobile Studies

Stoyan Stoyanov, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Design and quality evaluation principles for digital health interventions

David Parsons, The Mind Lab, New Zealand

Defining Mobile Pedagogy

3:40-04:30 pm (Ningbo, China); 6:40-7:30 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #11            Mobile Storytelling and SDGs:  Insights from Chinese Journalists

Chair: Tingting Shen, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Yan Fang, Senior Reporter of GRT Radio

Mobile Journalism, a Boost to Poverty Alleviation

Phoenix Zhang, Former Reporter, Founder of an Influential We-Media

How Mobile Empowers Women Entrepreneurship: Story from a We-media Female Start-up

Workshop #1

Mobile Research & DiVoMiner Workshop

04:30-05:30 pm (Ningbo, China); 07:30-08:30 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Chair: Xin Pei, Associate Director of Institute for Mobile Studies

Wenny Cao (China), Managing Director, Shanghai Office of BoYiData

Laurence Dang (China), Senior Researcher of BoYi Data

DiVoMiner for Mobile SDG Storytelling Studies

MSC2021 Partner Session at African University, Zimbabwe

Panel #12

03:00-04:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 09:00-10:00 am (Africa University, Zimbabwe)

Chair: Basuti Bolo, Managing Director of Mobile Studies Africa

Agripah Kandiero, Africa University – Zimbabwe

Mobile Learning Adoption, Determinants and Opportunities in Africa

Sabelo Chinzwina, Sol Plaatje Univerity – South Africa

Innovating and transforming Pedagogy in Africa using Social Media Learning

04:00-04:20 pm (Ningbo, China); 10:00-10:20 am (Africa University, Zimbabwe)

Break

 

Panel #13

04:20-05:20 pm (Ningbo, China); 10:20-11:20 am (Africa University, Zimbabwe)

Chair: Basuti Bolo, Managing Director of Mobile Studies Africa

Supa Mandiwanzira, Alpha Media Holdings & Parliament of Zimbabwe

National media and education: reconceptualizing the boundaries of formal and informal

learning in Africa

Ephraim Mhlanga, Southern Africa Institute of Distance Education (SAIDE), University of the

Witwatersrand (WITS)

Towards Education, Access, Equity and Quality Africa’s Higher Education using Open

Educational Resources (OER)

MSC2021 Partner Session at Zhejiang Wanli University, China

Mobile Communication and Culture Special Session (in Chinese)

09:00-10:30 am (Ningbo, China); 12:00-01:30 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #14

Qiang Yuexin, Dean of School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University

The Change of Discourse Mode of Short Video News Comments

Lei Shi, Dean of School of Humanities, Southwest Jiaotong University

Mobile for Rejuvenating Rural China

Zhang Yuqiang, Vice President of Communication University of China Press

Opportunities and Challenges Brought by Mobility to International Communication Theory and Practice

Zheng Suxia, Deputy Dean of School of Journalism and Communication, Zhengzhou University

Policy research on information differentiation and Inclusive development in rural areas

Deng Niansheng, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Nanchang University

Short video Communication Risk and Collaborative Governance under artificial Intelligence Environment

Chen Zhiqian, Dean and Professor, College of Culture and Media, Zhejiang Wanli University

New Media and Government Affairs and Image

10:55-12:00 am (Ningbo, China); 01:55-03:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #15

Ning Hailin, Academic leader of Journalism and Communication, Executive Dean and Professor of Modern Communication Research Institute of Ningbo University

Production Path of Short Government Videos from the Perspective of Better Life

Zhang Wenxiang, Director of The Institute of Network and Social Governance, Zhejiang University

Sustainable Path to Mobile Web Content Governance

Ma Jia, Professor and Party Secretary of School of Culture and Media, Zhejiang Wanli University

Study on the Learning Ability and Comprehensive Development of College Students in Online Communities

Wang Cuirong, Professor and Director of Discipline Office, Zhejiang Wanli University

Do mobile Communication Well, Further Improve the Image of Ningbo city

Huang Chaoqin, Associate professor and dean assistant, School of Culture and Communication, Zhejiang Wanli University

The Social Value and Cultural Reflection of Short Video Consumption

Shang Shuai, Associate Professor and Director of Online Media Department, Zhejiang Wanli University

Catering and Control: Research on Emotional Labor of Network Anchors

MSC2021 Partner Session at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia 

Please register via https://forms.office.com/r/3eHhhiBX4e for Zoom link.

Mobile Game Show

09:30-10:30 am (Ningbo, China); 12:30-01:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia); Sao Paulo, Brazil: 10:30 pm (Friday, 12 November)

Swinburne University Innovation Precinct

Level 4 of the Innovation Precinct - FS401

Avant Garden / Sustainability Game: Paulo Hartman

Chair: Augustus Raymond Segar, Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak, Malaysia

Mobile Film Show #1

10:00 am -11:00 am (Ningbo, China); 01:00 pm-02:00pm (Melbourne, Australia)

09:00 pm (Toronto, Canada, Friday, 12 November)

#Eco Smartphone Films: Introduced by Dr Gerda Cammaer, Ryerson University, Canada & Dr Max Schleser, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

11:00 am -12:00pm Ningbo, China; 02:00 pm-03:00pm (Melbourne, Australia)

New York, US: 10:00 pm (Friday, 12 November)

Keynote Session #5

Chair: Max Schleser, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia & Co-chair Mobile Studies Congress

Karl Bardosh (US): New York University

21st Century Storytelling & Smartphone Filmmaking

Mario R. Garcia (US): Columbia University; CEO/Founder, García Media

                SDGs Storytelling, the Mobile Way: Experience from US

Mobile Film Show #2

01:00 pm – 02:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 04:00 pm-5:00pm (Melbourne, Australia); 08:00 am (Istanbul, Turkey)

Smartphone Stories & Mobile-Mentary showcase 

Chair: Dean Keep, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Letterbox Populi: documenting democracy during COVID-19   

Miranda Wilson, New Zealand 

Smartphone Stories 

Dan Schultheis, Australia 

Cinespace  

Zeynep Merve Uygun, Turkey 

A Showcase on SDG Mobilementaries 

Mobile Film Show #3

02:00 pm – 03:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 05:00 pm – 06:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Smartphone Filmmakers plenary session (45 min):

Chair: Adrian Jeffs, Smartphone Filmmaker

Per invite for all selected filmmakers in the MINA International Mobile Innovation Screening.

Mobile Film Show #4

03:00 pm – 04:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 06:00 pm – 07:00pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Smartphone Film Festivals (45 min):

Chair: Max Schleser, Director MINA, Mobile Innovation Network & Association

with  

Michael Osheku – African International Smartphone Film Festival, Nigeria

Angela Blake – SF3, Australia 

Robert Fitzhugh – Dublin Smartphone Film Festival, Ireland 

Krystof Safer – Vertifilms, Czech Republic 

Abdul Kabil Khan - Dhaka International Mobile Film Festival, Bangladesh 

04:00 pm- 05:00pm (Ningbo, China); 07:00 pm – 8:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia); 08:00 am (London, UK), 09:00am (France & Germany)

Mobile Storytelling Symposium #4

Innovative Planet Plenary session I:

Storytelling’s Role in Advancing Carbon Literacy: Racing to Zero

Chairs:

Tim Breitbarth, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Anna Gerke, Audencia Business School, France

Petra Molthan-Hill, Professor of Sustainable Management and Education for Sustainable Development, Co-Chair of the UN PRME Working Group on Climate Change and Environment, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Riccardo Wagner, Professor of Corporate Communication and Marketing and Head of Media School, Fresenius University of Applied Science, GER

Chamila Perera, Marketing Lecturer; Co-Chair UN PRME Community of Practice; Swinburne                          University of Technology, AUS

05:00 pm – 06:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 08:00 pm – 09:00pm (Melbourne, Australia); 09:00 am -10:00am (London, UK)

Mobile Storytelling Symposium #5

Innovative Planet Plenary session II (45 min):

Polyphonic documentary storytelling & sustainability

Chair: Max Schleser, Swinburne University of Technology

Judith Aston, Associate Professor Interactive & Immersive Media at UWE Bristol, UK

Stefano Odorico, Reader in Contemporary Screen Media at Leeds Trinity University, UK

14 November (Sunday)

MSC2021 Partner Session at Chongqing University, China

Please register via https://forms.office.com/r/GDiNCXpCSB for Teams link.

Mobile Use and Public Events   

Chair: Tiance Dong, Professor and Dean, School of Journalism and Communication, Chongqing University

09:00-09:50 am (Chongqing, China); 12:00-01:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #16: Discourse Power in Chinese Mobile Media

Minghua Wu, Chongqing Univeristy

Discourse Power Shifting in Chinese Social Media

Yanrong Chen, Chongqing University

“Justice Is Communicative”: the Cross-field Boundary Practice in Controversial Public Judicial Events

Huiqin Li, Liaoning University

Brand China, Multi-subject, Multi-dimension and Platform Strategy: National Image Construction from the Perspective of Public Diplomacy during the COVID-19 Pandemic

09:50-10:40 am (Chongqing, China); 01:00-01:40 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #17: Political Participation in Chinese Mobile Media

Jun Wang, Chongqing University

An Empirical Study on the Impacts of Political Psychology on Internet Political Participation

Tong Li, Yunnan University

An analysis of youth‘s online political participation and emotional tendency in Xinjiang Cotton incident

Yangmei Jiang, Chongqing University

New media users' position and cognition on conspiracy theory

Wuyue Zhang, Chongqing University

The Development Trend of Government Social Media In the era of Intelligent Communication

11:00 am-11:50 pm (Chongqing, China); 02:00-03:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel # 18: Mobile Media Use in China

Xiaoyuan Jiang, Chongqing University

An Extension of the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM): The Influence of High School Students’ Parents’ Telecom Fraud Perception on Parental Mediation

Di Zhu, Chongqing University

Narrative, affective and attribution: School violence as a social media hot topic of Zhihu online community in China

Can Yang, Chongqing University

Internet Use and Internet Addiction among Chinese Elderly: Evidence from Chinese General Social Survey

Workshop #2:

01:00-02:30 pm (Ningbo, China); 05:00-07:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

SDGs and Mobile Film Screenwriting

Stephen Andriano-Moore, Assistant Professor, Xian-Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

Workshop #3:

02:30-04:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 06:00-08:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

SDGs and Mobile Photography

Jiang Cheng, Lecturer, Zhejiang Wanli University

Workshop #4:

04:00-05:30 pm (Ningbo, China); 05:00-07:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

SDGs and Short Video Production

Qumo Ren, PhD candidate, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

MSC2021 Partner Session at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia 

Workshop #5

09:00 am (Ningbo, China); 11:00 am (Melbourne, Australia)

Online all day workshop by Unfolding Media Aotearoa via Discord

Unfolding Media Aotearoa members:

Associate Professor Dafydd Sills-Jones, Dr Anna Jackson,

Dr Rufus McEwan, Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa-NZ

 

Please register via email dafydd.sills-jones@aut.ac.nz

 

During this one day online workshop we will issue a challenge to delegates  to create, experiment, iterate and share responses to sustainability using free and everyday digital media making tools - thus navigating the plethora of free and agile apps and equipment that we now live amongst - tapping into the resources that we already have, rather than fetishising the brands and prosumer media making tools that we might otherwise aspire to.

Delegates are also invited to reflect on the implications of this attempt. It’s easy to say that we are in a kind of ‘transmedia 2.0’ era, where the app-sphere and ubiquity of smartphone devices and high-speed mobile networks have ‘democratised’ media production, and collapsed the difference between consumer and producer, private and public. But this surely can’t be that easy? The access to networks vary on geographic and social levels, and kit still requires capital outlay. Technology has its ontological logic, that drives users towards specific ends, and lives within ecosystemic configurations that open up some pathways of expression, and block others. Technology itself is socially determined, and as such can be both a reflection of cultural hegemony (i.e. dominant power/economic relations), and local resistances to those hegemonic forces (i.e. glocal content, ‘Arab Spring’ moments).

 

So, where does this leave the individual media maker, and their navigation of the design and execution of a media work on sustainability? This workshop creates a space for doing and thinking these issues. Please register in advance.    

MSC2021 Partner Session at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia  

Please register via https://forms.office.com/r/RMxDdXK1jZ for Zoom link.

 

Workshop #6

11:00 am (Ningbo, China); 02:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Screenings & Workshops @ Swinburne Studio ACMI

02:00 pm – 03:00 pm via Zoom

  • Max Schleser & Adrian Jeffs – MINA Smartphone Filmmaking

  • Rob Layton -Smartphone Filmmaker & Bond University

  • Andrew Robb-Smartphone Filmmaker

  • Martin Koszolko - Mobile Music

 

Mobile Film Show #5

12:00 pm – 12:30pm (Ningbo, China); 03:00 pm – 03:30 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

MINA New Voices Screening (30min) via Xerb and Zoom

Chair: Zinna Vroland and Bella Henry-Jerrett, Swinburne University of Technology students & emerging filmmakers

 

Mobile Film Show #6

12:30 pm – 1:30pm (Ningbo, China); 03:30 pm -04:30 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

MINA Containing Covid-19 Screening (60min) via Xerb and Zoom

Chair: Micheal Hollis / Ruairi Walsh

 

04.30-05:00 pm break 

 

Workshop #7

02:00-02:40 pm (Ningbo, China); 05:00-05:40 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

via Zoom

FiLMiC Pro / FILMCOVERT Workshop

John Parker - FilmConvert

Eliot Fitzroy from FiLMiC Pro

 

Panel #19

03:00 -04:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 06:00 pm -07:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

via Zoom

  • Stephen Quinn, Norway, iPhone film

  • Nico Piro, Italy, MoJo, Crises production

  • Kev Lavery – Adobe Rush

  • Dafydd Sills-Jones, Transmedia Time Challenge

 

Mobile Film Show #7

04:00 pm – 05:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 07:00 pm – 08:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

MINA International Mobile Innovation Screening (63min)

Chair: Max Schleser, Director MINA, Mobile Innovation Network & Association

 

Mobile Film Show #8

05:00 pm – 6.30 pm (Ningbo, China); 08:00 pm – 9.30 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Introduction by Darcy Yuille – One Punch (73 min) via Xerb and Zoom and Q & A with smartphone filmmaker / director

8 pm (73min) Introduction by Darcy Yuille – One Punch

One Punch and Q&A

Online Screening & Smartphone Film Festival:

https://xerb.tv/channel/mina/virtual-events/2239

 

Screening & Smartphone Film Festival Program:

https://www.yumpu.com/s/OyHhIWCe0XmGfnRS

 

14 November Sunday   

MSSS Special Session Mixed with Partner Session at Lanzhou University, China

Please register via https://forms.office.com/r/GDiNCXpCSB for Teams link.

09:00-09-:50 am (Ningbo, China); 12:00-12:50 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #20

Chair: Shanru Yang, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Raisha Jesmin Rafa, University of Nottingham Malaysia

How Online Fandoms Can Facilitate Learning in the Digitally Mediated Age 

Yicheng Xiao, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

A Review of Related Literature on Mobile Learning

Yang Mengtian, Lanzhou University

Virtual Presence: Taking the Short Video of Catching Up with the Sea as an Example

09:50-10:40 am (Ningbo, China); 12:50 am-01:40 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #21

Chair: Nancy Liu, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Qiao Lin, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Mobile Learning and College Students: Expectations, Difficulties and Strategies

Zilin Zhou, Zhejiang Wanli University

Overview of Video Mobile Education in Medicine

Xu Zihe, Lanzhou University

The sustainable Development of Mobile Communication

10:40-10:50 am (Ningbo, China); 01:40 -01:50 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Break

10:50-11:40 am (Ningbo, China); 01:50-02:40 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #22

Chair: Dimple Thadani, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Sujon Chandra SARKAR, Bangladesh

Use of mobile applications to Enhance Students’ Engagement in Management Classes of a

Government College, Bangladesh.

Nehl Mahmood Ghani, University of Nottingham Malaysia

Containing COVID-19, the Mobile Way: A Cross-Country Comparison (UK vs. China) of the

Effectiveness of Contact-Tracing Applications in Curbing Spread of COVID-19

Nur Aribah Atiqah Mohamad Raus, University of Nottingham Malaysia

Communication Through Appliances

11:40-01:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 02:40-04:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)  

Break

01:00 - 01:50 pm (Ningbo, China); 04:00-04:50 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #23

Chair: Tingting Shen, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Meilin Zhi, Zhejiang Wanli University

Exploring a new path of international communication:  News games construct the common semantic space for cross-cultural communication

Jeannette GOON, University of Nottingham, Malaysia

Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds for Cultivating and Maintaining Cross-Cultural Male Friendships

Duan Yihan, Lanzhou University

Mobile Media and Communication: A Scientometric Analysis Using CiteSpace

01:50-02:40 pm (Ningbo, China); 04:50-05:40 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #24

Chair: Qumo Ren, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Tianyi Li, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Luxury Social Media Marketing in China: The case of WeChat

Bingyi Wu, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Implications of Mobile Social Media Marketing of Luxury Fashion Brands towards Millennials

Yunping Hu, University of Nottingham Ningbo China           

Network Fraud and the Elderly: The Case of China

Guanzhong Wang, University of Nottingham, UK

Impacts of Mobile Marketing on Facebook

02:40-03:30 pm (Ningbo, China); 05:40-06:30 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #25

Chair: Chenxiang Elaine Ji, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Mir Hasib, Khulna University, Bangladesh

Mobile Journalism Practice in Bangladesh and India during COVID-19 Pandemic

Quansui Gao, Zhejiang Wanli University

Improve the Experience of Using Cloud Storage on Mobile Phones

Ye Kong, Lanzhou University

Use of Mobile Positioning Functions: College Students' Concerns and Coping Strategies

03:30-03:40 pm (Ningbo, China); 06:30-06:40 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Break

03:40-05:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 06:40-08:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #26

Chair: Xin Pei, Associate Director of Institute for Mobile Studies

Xueqi ZHANG, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Weibo as a discursive resource: #MakeFemaleWorkersVisible, the feminist hashtag activism

during COVID-19 in China

Jiahang Li, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Explore how mobile applications define beauty ideals for Chinese females

Zhang Cangyue, University of Nottingham Malaysia

Social media: How can social media affect teenage boys and girls differently?

Zhongyi Guan, Lanzhou University

A study on the polarization of internet public opinion in China in the era of mobile

Communication

03:40-05:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 06:40-08:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #27 (in Chinese)

Chair: Tingting Shen, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Wang Lu, Lanzhou University

Mobile-Platform-Based IP of Athlete Stars: Creation and Value Sustainability

Zhang Qin, Lanzhou University

Converged Media in the Context of Mobile Communication

Yaxuan He, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

The Root: Literature Review of Mobility and Students’ Mental Health in China

05:00-06:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 08:00-09:00 (Melbourne, Australia)

Panel #28 (in Chinese)

Chair: Xiaoge Xu, Founder of Mobile Studies International

Shuo Liu, Lanzhou University

Currents and Trends of Audio Book Studies: A CiteSpace Analysis

Xiujie Wang, Lanzhou University

The Innovative Development of Vertical Video from the Perspective of Focus Theory

Xinxin Yu, Lanzhou University

Examining NetEase Cloud Music from the Perspective of Interactive Ritual Chain

Closing Sessions

06:00 pm (Ningbo, China); 09:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)

Chair: Xin Pei, Associate Director of Institute for Mobile Studies

Concluding Remarks: Max Schleser, Co-Chair of Mobile Studies Congress

Announcing MSC2022: Xiaoge Xu, Founding Chair of Mobile Studies Congress

 

Organizers:

Mobile Studies International

Mobile Innovation Network and Association  

Co-organizers:

Institute for Mobile Studies, School of International Communications, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University 

Swinburne University of Technology, Australia 

In collaboration with:

ERS e-Research & Solutions, Macao, China

School of Culture and Communication, Zhejiang Wanli University, China

School of Journalism and Communication, Chongqing University, China

School of Communication, Soochow University, China

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