MOBILE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL
Go Mobile, Stay Smart.
Mobile Studies Congress 2020
Go Mobile, Stay Healthy
13-15 November 2020
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Zoom Meeting ID: 871 378 1988
Password: msc2020
18 Panels, 6 Keynote Sessions, 4 Workshops, and 2 Competitions
Day 1 Morning Session Friday 13 November 2020
09:00 – 9:30 Opening Plenary
Trent 209 Chair: Dr Amira Halperin
Deputy Director of Institute for Mobile Studies (IMS)
School of International Communications, UNNC
Welcome Speech
Prof May Tan-Mullins
Vice Provost (Teaching and Learning)
Director of Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies (IAPS)
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Mobile Studies Congress: Introducing Theme Series (2020-2025)
Dr Xiaoge Xu. Chair of Mobile Studies Congress
Director of Institute for Mobile Studies
School of International Communications, UNNC
09:30 – 10:30 Keynote Session #1 (Virtual) 第一场主题演讲（线上）
Keynotes #1 Chair: Dr Xiaoge Xu, Director of Institute for Mobile Studies
Trent 209 School of International Communication, UNNC
疫情之下的移动媒体使用与社会信任鸿沟
Mobile Media Use and Social Trust Gap During the Pandemic
韦路教授，浙江大学传媒与国际文化学院院长
Prof. Lu Wei, Dean of CMIC, Zhejiang University
移动时代的新闻传播：挑战和机遇
News Communication in the Mobile Age:
Challenges and Opportunities
谢金文教授，上海交通大学
Prof. Jinwen Xie, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
走向移动，健康传播——基于消费者行为的视角（2015-2020）
Go Mobile, Health Communication:
A Consumer Behaviour Perspective (2015-2020)
刘德寰教授，北京大学
Prof. Dehuan Liu, Peking University
10:30 – 10:40 Coffee/Tea Break
10:40 – 11:40 Creative Practice Research & Mobile Storytelling (Virtual)
Panel # 1 Chair: Dr Paul Martin, Associate Professor
Trent 209 School of International Communications, UNNC
Trash to Treasure: An African Smartphone Documentary
Preserving the Krobo Community in Ghana
Felix Gyebi Amofa, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
The Differences in Construction of 2D and 3D Space Between
Vertical Video and Traditional Widescreen
Milan Maric – Markuza, Massey University, New Zealand
Ice City: Harbin
Shuai Li, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Imaginative Mobile Storytelling & Mobile Cinematic VR
Dr Max Schleser, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Day 1 Afternoon Session Friday 13 November 2020
13: 00 – 14:00 Documenting COVID-19: The Mobile Way
Panel #2 Chair: Dr Xiaoling Zhang, Chair Professor
Trent 209 School of International Communications, UNNC
Multiframing the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Douyin
Qumo Ren, PhD candidate, School of International Communications
Mobile Journalism: Crowdsourcing COVID19
Dr Shixin Zhang, School of International Communications, UNNC
14:00 – 15:00 Keynote Session #2 (Virtual) 第二场主题演讲（线上）
Keynotes #2 Chair: Dr Xiaoge Xu, Director of Institute for Mobile Studies
Trent 209 School of International Communications, UNNC
智媒时代的移动性治理
Governance of Mobility in the Age of Smart Media
谢静教授，复旦大学
Prof. Jing Xie, Fudan University
移动时代的网络传播：挑战和机遇
Internet Communication in the Mobile Age:
Challenges and Opportunities
方兴东教授，浙江传媒学院
Prof. Xingdong Fang, Communication University of Zhejiang
COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of Chinese and Russian
Urban Online Communication
Dr Olga Leontovich
Professor and Chair, Department of Intercultural Communication and
Translation, Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University (Russia)
Professor, Tianjin Foreign Studies University (China)
Dr Nadezhda Kotelnikova
Associate Professor, Department of Intercultural Communication and
Translation, Director of Confucius Institute, Volgograd State
Socio-Pedagogical University (Russia)
15:00 – 15:10 Coffee/Tea Break
15:10 – 16:10 Mobile Workspaces, Marketing and Translation
Panel #3 Chair: Dr Nancy Liu, Associate Professor
Trent 209 FHSS PGR Director, UNNC
Mobile Marketing: Entering an Innovative Timeline
Dr Yi Wang, Faculty of Business, UNNC
Dr Yangyang Jiang, Faculty of Business, UNNC
Mobile Translation in English Learning: An Effective Tool?
Tingting Zhao, PhD student, School of Education and English, UNNC
Construction Mobile Workspaces in Post COVID-19
Dr Georgios Kapogiannis, Faculty of Science and Engineering, UNNC
16:10 – 17:10 Mobile Health Communication: A Global Comparison (I) (Virtual)
Panel #4 Chair: Dr Shixin Zhang, Associate Professor, IC PGR director, UNNC
Trent 209
Who Are Waging a War Towards Whom?
A Framing Analysis of New York Times Coverage of COVID-19
Dr Zhan Li and Yuying Yang
School of Journalism and communication, Xiamen University
Typology and Governance of Information Disorder in the
Platform Society: A Case Study on Mobile Communication of
Problem Information about COVID-19 in China
Dr Yusi Liu and Lu Zhu
School of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University
Public Health Communication and City Image: The Case of
Wuhan During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Zizhen Wang, Research Assistant, Institute for Mobile Studies, UNNC
Dr Stephen Andriano-Moore, IMS Research Fellow
School of International Communications, UNNC
17:10 – 18:10 Mobile and Diaspora, Migrants, and Immigrants (Virtual)
Panel #5 Chair: Dr. Amira Halperin, Assistant Professor
Trent 209 Deputy IMS Director, School of International Communications
Mobile technology, Smugglers, and Irregular Migration
Ruta Nimkar, Co-Founder at Meraki Labs, Canada
Keynote #3 Mobile Communication in the Arab World Pre and Post
Covid-19: Potentials, Limitations and Future Prospects
Dr Sahar Khamis, Associate Professor of Communication at
the University of Maryland, US
Day 1 Evening Session Friday 13 November 2020
19:10 – 20:10 Keynote Session #4 (Virtual) 第四场主题演讲（线上）
Keynotes #4 Chair: Hao Liu, Director of Communication and Planning Program
Trent 209 Zhejiang Business Technology Institute
移动时代的微记录片：挑战和机遇
Mobile Documentary: Challenges and Opportunities
赵谦助理研究员，北京电影学院 中国电影文化研究院
Dr Qian Zhao
Institute of Chinese Film Studies, Beijing Film Academy
战“疫”之后，“胜利”如何展示？
--以央视大型纪录片《同心“战疫”》为例
Documenting Victory Stories in the COVID-19 Battle:
The Case of CCTV Documentary “Winning the Battle”
王杰，湖南广播电视台快乐先锋频道编导
Jie Wang, Director of Happy Pioneer Channel of Hunan Radio & TV
20:10 – 20:20 Coffee/Tea Break
20:20 – 21:20 Mobile Documentary Competition 2020
Trent 209 Containing COVID-19: Mobile Documentaries
Announcement of Winners and Awards
Announcement of Mobile Documentary Competition 2021
Mobile-Documentary-Related Game Competition and Awards
Day 2 Morning Session Saturday 14 November 2020
9:00 – 10:00 Keynote Session #5 (Virtual)
Keynotes #5 Chair: Dr Xiaoge Xu, Director of Institute for Mobile Studies
Trent 209 School of International Communications, UNNC
Mobile and Healthcare in the Age of COVID-19
Ms. Florie Brizel (CEO, Brizel Media, USA)
(21:00, Friday, 13 November)
Mobile Communication in the 5G Era: What to Expect?
Prof. Ran Wei, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
10:00 – 10:10 Coffee/Tea Break
10:10 – 11:10 Fake News and Infodemic: Another Battle
Panel #6 Chair: Dr Zhan Li, Associate Professor
Trent 209 Chair of Communication Department, Xiamen University
Dissemination of Fake News in Online Social Media
Dr Boying Li, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Stealth Battlefield: Sniping at Infodemic of Social Media in China
Tieniu Wang, PhD student, School of International Communications
Fighting the Fake News During the Pandemic
Xiaoxiao Zhang and Zhiying Zhang, PhD candidates
School of International Communications, UNNC
11:10 – 12:10 Combating the Pandemic: The Mobile & Smart Way (Virtual)
Panel #7 Chair: Dr Stephen Andriano-Moore, IMS Research Fellow
Trent 209 School of International Communication, UNNC
Transnational Care: Supporting Elderly Parents with Mobile
Phones in the COVID-19 Crisis
Dr Naziat Choudhury, Associate Professor
University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
(9:10 am, two hours behind)
Fighting COVID-19: The Case of Hangzhou City Brain
Tiantian Xu, General Committee Office in Jiubao Town, Hangzhou
Day 2 Afternoon Session Saturday 14 November 2020
13:00 – 14:00 Mobile News, Advertising and PR (Virtual)
Panel #8 移动新闻、广告和公关（线上）
Trent 209 主持人：任趣墨，宁波诺丁汉大学国际传播系博士生
Chair: Qumo Ren, PhD candidate, School of IC, UNNC
新加坡华文新媒体的疫情报道与“异乡华人”的情绪投射
—基于微信公众号“新加坡眼”新冠肺炎报道及评论的研究
News Coverage of COVID-19 by Chinese New Media in Singapore:
The Case of Singapore Eye (WeChat Official Account)
罗奕，广西艺术学院影视与传媒学院教授
施雨欣，广西艺术学院影视与传媒学院
Prof. Yi Luo and Yuxin Shi
School of Films and Media, Guangxi Arts Academy
横扫世界的短视频直播平台广告
Short Video Live Broadcast: A Popular Platform for Advertising
郑子昂，快手APP战略投资部高级投资经理
Ziang Zheng, Senior Strategic Investment Associate
移动与公关传播
Mobile and Public Relations
王艺冰，Brand & Communication Head of Kappa China
14:00 – 15:00 Mobile Health, Reviews and Translation
Panel #9 Chair: Dr. Amira Halperin, Assistant Professor
Trent 209 Deputy IMS Director, School of International Communications
Are Mobile Reviews Trustworthy and Useful?
Dr Sathyaprakash Balaji Makam (M S Balaji)
Faculty of Business, UNNC
Translating COVID-19:
Comparing Machine and Human Translation
Yue Guo, PhD student, School of Education and English, UNNC
Mobile Health and the Improvement of Doctor to Patient Ratio
in Developing Countries.
Eyerusalem S. Bekele, School of Economics, UNNC
15:00 – 15:20 Coffee/Tea Break
15:20 – 16:20 Mobile Communication and mGender (Virtual)
Panel #10 Chair: Dr Xin Pei, School of International Communications, UNNC
Trent 209
The Relationship between Chinese Women's Rights of Discourse
and We Media from the Perspective of Sina Weibo
Aizi Chang, Monash University, Australia
Towards traditional or atypical parenting? Mediated
communication in Chinese transnational families
Hong Chen, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Agency Within Contextual Constraints: Mobile Phone Use Among
Female Live-Out Domestic Workers in Delhi
Pranav Malhotra, University of Washington, US
The Invisible Sexuality: An Examination of the Bisexual Identity
Online
Munifa Shaza, Rachael Lim, Caris Chua, Carrine Low & Lee Jia Cai Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
16:20 – 17:20 Mobile Health Communication: A Global Comparison (II)
(Virtual)
Panel #11 Chair: Dr Lei Hao, School of International Communications, UNNC
Trent 209
Mind the Queue! Experiences of COVID-19 around the world in
the first phase of the pandemic
Francesco Petricone, Professor of Sociology
Faculty of Social Communication, University of the Holy Cross, Italy
How Women Refugees Are Overcoming Information Precarity
and Housing Precarity During the Covid-19 Pandemic in
Hamburg, Germany
Miriam Berg, Assistant Professor in Residence Journalism and
Strategic Communication Program,University of Northwestern Qatar
Day 2 Evening Session Saturday 14 November 2020
18:30 – 19:30 Keynote Session #6 (Virtual)
Keynotes #6 Chair: Dr Corey Schultz, IC Director of Research, UNNC
Trent 209
Mobile Studies: Past, Present and Future
Dr Max Schleser, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
(21:30 pm, Saturday)
Movie MoJo:
Making short movies with a smartphone during lockdown
Dr Stephen Quinn, MOJO Media Insights, UK
(10: 30 am, 8 hours behind)
19:30 – 19:40 Coffee/Tea Break
19:40 – 20:40 Mobile Research Paper Competition 2020
Trent 209 Chair: Dr Corey Schultz, IC Director of Research, UNNC
Mobile Research Paper Competition: Winners and Awards
Announcement of Mobile Research Paper Competition 2021
Mobile-Related Game Competition and Awards
Day 3 Morning Session Sunday 15 November 2020
9:00 – 10:00 COVID-19 and Mobile Health Communication (Virtual)
Panel #12 新冠疫情和移动健康传播（线上）
Trent 209 主持人：李展，厦门大学新闻传播学院副教授
Chair: Dr Zhan Li, Associate Professor, Xiamen University
移动传播时代的叙事转型
—以我国央级新媒体的新冠疫情传播为例
Storytelling Transformation in the Mobile Age:
The Case of National New Media COVID-19 Communication
史冬冬，厦门大学新闻传播学院副教授
Dr Dongdong Shi, Associate Professor, Xiamen University
感知风险与感知价值：基于移动客户端用户媒介素养的调查
Perceived Risk and Perceived Value:
A Survey of Media Literacy of Mobile Users
苏俊斌，厦门大学新闻传播学院副教授
Dr Junbin Su, Associate Professor, Xiamen University
健康传播视角下广东省新冠疫情报道考察
—以《南方日报》微信公众号相关报道为例
News Coverage of COVID-19 in Guangdong:
The Case of WeChat Official Account of Southern Daily
龚丽，广东财经大学华商学院讲师
Li Gong, Lecturer, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics
10:00 – 10:10 Coffee/Tea Break
10:10 – 11:10 Beyond the Pandemic: Opportunities Ahead (II) (Virtual)
Panel #13 后疫情时代移动传播（线上）
Trent 209 主持人：任趣墨，宁波诺丁汉大学国际传播系博士生
Chair: Qumo Ren, PhD candidate, School of IC, UNNC
后疫情时代的移动传播营销--以抖音自媒体栏目《西西李》为例
Post-COVID-19 Mobile Marketing: The Case of “Xixili”
李元，贵州电视台影视制片人/导演
Yuan Li, Producer and film and TV Director
Guizhou Broadcast and TV Station
广播电台与移动短视频的机遇、融合与探索
--当治愈的声音“走”入你的眼帘
Opportunities, Convergence and Exploration in Radio and Mobile
Short Video: The Case of Healing Audio
宁娜娜，贵阳交通广播1027主持人
Nana Ning, Host of Guiyang Traffic Radio 1027
城市涉外传播中的故事策略——
以宁波双语电视栏目《Ningbo Focus》为例
Strategies in City Storytelling: The Case of Ningbo Focus
刘昊，浙江工商职业技术学院传播与策划专业主任
Hao Liu, Director of Communication and Planning Program
Zhejiang Business Technology Institute
11:10 – 12:10 Health Communication and Audio Storytelling (II)（Virtual）
Panel #14 健康传播和声音叙事（II）（线上）
Trent 209 Chair: Tieniu Wang, PhD student, School of IC, UNNC
主持人：王铁牛，宁波诺丁汉大学国际传播系博士生
浅析新冠疫情中声音叙事的功能与应用
Audio Storytelling During the Pandemic:
Functions and Applications
郭书畅，暨南大学新闻与传播学院口语传播系
Shuchang Guo, Department of Oral Communication, Jinan University
疫情期间广播节目中声音叙事的研究——以中国之声为例
Audio Storytelling in Radio Programs During the Pandemic:
A Case Study of Voice of China
林俊宏，浙江传媒学院播音主持艺术学院
Junhong Lin, School of Broadcasting and Hosting Arts
Communication University of Zhejiang
Day 3 Afternoon Session Sunday 15 November 2020
13: 00 – 14:00 Mobile Communications and Healthcare Technologies
Panel #15 Chair: Dr Shixin Zhang, Associate Professor
Trent 209 School of International Communications, UNNC
Exploring and evaluating the design of soft home monitoring
objects and its mobile health services
Changyuan Xie, Yanbing Wang, Yanzhe Wang, Zhen Wu and
Dr Martijn ten Bhömer, Assistant Professor
Faculty of Science and Engineering
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Frontline Workers and Mobile Video Calling During COVID-19
Sharma S. AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Nagpal S. Deputy Controller, Media Centre, Ministry of Culture
(11:00 am, two hours and a half behind)
How culture context effects netizens’ technophobia towards mHealth in
China
Zhibin Chen, School of International Communications, UNNC
14:00 – 15:00 Health Communication and Audio Storytelling (I) (Virtual)
Panel #16 Chair: Dr Stephen Andriano-Moore, IMS Research Fellow
Trent 209 School of International Communications, UNNC
Audio Storytelling and Loneliness in COVID-19
Ruifan Zhao, Communication University of Zhejiang
The Importance of Podcast Audio Producers to Improve Their
Voice Narrative Level in COVID-19
Yunfan Chang, Heilongjiang University
15:00 – 15:10 Coffee/Tea Break
15:10 – 16:10 Mobile Communications and College Students
Panel #17 Chair: Dr Xin Pei, School of International Communications, UNNC
Trent 209
College Students’ WeChat Usage Behaviour and Privacy Paradox
Tianqi Wu, School of International Communications, UNNC
Comparing Douyin Use Between Young and Middle-aged Users
Lumin Hua, School of International Communications, UNNC
Comparing Sexting Among Chinese College Students
Junxiang Bao, School of International Communications, UNNC
16:10 – 17:10 Mobile Health Communication: A Global Comparison (III) (V)
Panel #18 Chair: Dr Lei Hao, School of International Communications, UNNC
Trent 209
Studying the Reactions of Iranian Celebrities and Their Fans to
COVID-19 on Instagram
Mahmoud Farhadimahali
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Allame Amini University, Iran
Invisible Inequality in the Public: Drones Deployed to
Tackle COVID19 in Public Space,
Sun Xiang, Editor in China News Agency
A Study of Chinese Netizen Social Media Trust Factors:
Take COVID-19 as Example
Xihui Wang, University of Westminster, UK
Workshops
Day 3 15 November 2020
Venue Lord Dearing Building C Floor
Workshop #1 How to conduct digital ethnography on mobile
9:00 – 11:00 (with a 15-minute coffee/tea break)
C07 Trainer: Dr Xin Pei
Workshop #2 How to enhance brand storytelling
14:00 – 16:00 (with a 15-minute coffee/tea break)
C07 Trainer: Dr Yi Wang
Workshop #3 How to enhance microfilm screenwriting
9: 00 – 11:00 (with a 15-minute coffee/tea break)
C08 Trainer: Dr Stephen Andriano-Moore
Workshop #4 How to enhance short video storytelling?
14:00 – 16:00 (with a 15-minute coffee/tea break)
C08 Trainer: Mr Qumo Ren
17:10 – 17:20 Closing Plenary
Venue Trent 209
Closing Speech
Certificates for Presenters/Keynote Speakers/Chairs/Volunteers
Certificates for 4 workshops participants
Certificates for Winners of Mobile Documentary Competition 2020
Certificates for Winners of Mobile Research Paper Competition 2020
Dr Xiaoge Xu, Chair of Mobile Studies Congress
Director of Institute for Mobile Studies
School of International Communications
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
