Intelligent Communication and City Networks

Intelligent Communication and City Networks – A Hybrid Preconference of the International Communication Association

Intelligent communication re-wires various networks of cities, provide possible alternatives to intelligent mediation in urban settings, and renew an understanding of digital cities. Facilitated by increasingly intelligent technologies, such as ChatGPT, mobile VR, or TikTok, emerging networks of migration, trade and cultural exchanges re-connect cities into new clusters or communities. Examining the tension that intelligent communication brings to these networks carries important implications for the future of people, resources and technology. At this Preconference, interdisciplinary scholars shared research focusing on theorization, historiography, research methodology, and media practices.

The programme booklet with abstracts can be found here.

Video clips of individual paper presentations can be found below according to the panel.

Early Career Panel – Impact of Digital Integration on Urban Spaces and Practices

Digital Railways as Urban Interface: A Study Based on the German Railway System Mr Cheng Taoran PhD Candidate, School of Journalism, Fudan University
“Making the Block” – Contemporary Interactions between Urban Public Space and Mobile Media Practices Ms Kang Zhengyu PhD Candidate, School of Journalism, Fudan University
Digitalized Monetary Media and the Intelligent Future of Exchange: A Case Study on “Ant Forest” and Its Implications for Monetary Media Mr Zhang Qikai PhD Candidate, School of Journalism, Fudan University
Smartphone Sensing and Urban Communication: Behavioural Insights on Wellbeing in Intelligent Cities Ms Soh Kai Xin Research Assistant, Centre for Trusted Internet and Community, National University of Singapore
The Late Teresa Teng’s Failed Digital Calling: Listening as the Way to Know Teng in Mainland China Dr Hety Wong Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Cultural Research Centre, National University of Singapore

Faculty Panel I – Reorganising Urban Dynamics

Complex Framing: Hybrid Space and the Reconfiguration of Frame Dynamics

Prof Pan Ji
Professor and Associate Director, Center for Information and Communication
Studies, Fudan University

How Digital Communication Makes Network Different? – A Perspective from Complex Systems

Prof Zhang Zi-Ke
Professor, Center for Digital Communication Studies and College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University

Local Familiar Strangers in Digitalizing Urban Neighborhoods in Seoul

Prof Kim Yong-Chan
Professor, Department of Communication, Yonsei University

Faculty Panel II – Narratives and Representations in Digital City

Cities of Memory: From Cinematic Representation to Short Video Curation

Prof Li Hongtao
Professor, School of Journalism;
Associate Director, Center for Information and Communication Studies,
Fudan University

Toward Multiverse: Temporal-spatial Stacking in Digital Storytelling

Prof Lu Ye (in Chinese)
Professor, School of Journalism, Fudan University

The Pervasive Game: A New Technological Culture in the Digital City

A/Prof Zhou Haiyan (in Chinese)
Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Fudan University

Faculty Panel III – Innovation and Living in Digital Urban Landscape

Localizing Big Data Governance in China during COVID-19: Urban Digital Infrastructure, Mobility Data, and Bureaucratic Dynamic

A/Prof Li Mengying
Research Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Fudan University

What have We Learnt from 60 Years of Urban Computing?

Prof Scott McQuire
Professor of Media and Communications, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne

Being Human in Digital Cities

Prof Myria Georgiou
Professor, Department of Media and Communications,
The London School of Economics and Political Science