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East Asian Media Culture in the Age of Digital Platforms Conference
October 7 at 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
This international conference held at SFU on Oct. 4th and 5th, and at UBCO on Oct. 7th will explore how digital platformization has been shifting the ways in which media and popular culture evolve in the East Asian and Asia-Pacific contexts. The empirical and theoretical studies presented by leading scholars across media/communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, and Asian studies, will address various aspects of digital platform-driven media industries, texts, and audiences while questioning the Western-centric discourse of digital platforms.
The conference is organized by Kyong Yoon (Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, UBC Okanagan) and Dal Yong Jin (School of Communication, Simon Fraser University), and is sponsored by the Public Humanities Hub Okanagan, UBCO Principal’s Research Chair Program, the Academy of Korean Studies, and the SFU’s David Lam Centre.
The conference is open to the public and takes place at the UBCO campus in the UNC Ballroom and at the Kelowna Innovation Centre in downtown Kelowna.
Contact kyong.yoon@ubc.ca to find out more and to register, or view the full conference program.
