International Conference on New Directions in the Development of Creative and Media Industries

Date:
7-8 June
Venue:
The C-Centre, 3/F, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Description:

The international conference “New Directions in the Development of Creative and Media Industries” organized by the School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK was held on campus from June 7 to 8. The conference was a platform for scholars’ discussion on the past, present, and future of the creative and media industries. Nearly a hundred participants attended the two-day conference and 22 scholars presented their papers, including three co-conveners and 19 leading scholars from renowned universities in Australia, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden, Taiwan, the Mainland and Hong Kong.

This conference conducted a comprehensive study of the game industries in HK and China from an international comparative perspective. Game industries (as an example of creative industries), game texts, new user and their experience, and cultural policy were discussed in the conference. Besides the newly emerging creative industries, media industries also respond to the changing technology, market and audience taste by evolving themselves into new cultural and media forms. The new business model and forms of media industries were discussed in the conference.

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