Introduction
Drawing upon evidence from big data and comparative survey research, scholars in this workshop will focus on a variety of issues of governance in Asian countries, including political values, attitudes, and perceptions, and new media discourse and censorship. The papers and presentations will speak to the (new) challenges Asian countries are facing today.
Programme Rundown
Date : 13 – 14 January 2020 (Monday – Tuesday)
Venue: Lee Ping Yuen Chamber (D801), 8/F, Lee Quo Wei Academic Building (Block D), The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Time: (Day 1) 14:00-17:45; (Day 2) 09:30-12:45
[Day 1] 13 January 2020 (Monday) | |
14:00 – 14:15 | Registration |
14:15 – 14:30 | Opening Remarks Group Photo |
14:30 – 15:30 | Speaker 1: Professor Yu-tzung Chang and Dr Mark Weatherall The Clash of Civilizations Revisited: A Comparative Study between East Asian Democracies and Australia |
15:30 – 16:30 | Speaker 2: Dr Shiru Wang Populism, Values and Internet Exposure: Comparative Evidence from ABS Data |
16:30 – 16:45 | Break |
16:45 – 17:45 | Speaker 3: Professor Pierre Landry Interviewer Effects |
18:00 – 20:00 | Dinner |
[Day 2] 14 January 2020 (Tuesday) | |
09:30 – 10:30 | Speaker 4: Dr Yongrong Cao, Dr Hsin-Che Wu* and Dr Min-Hua Huang Cognitive Explanations of Indian Perceptions of China *Corresponding Author |
10:30 – 11:30 | Speaker 5: Dr Gary Tang and Dr Edmund Cheng Moderating effect of critical event on relationship between postmaterialism and perceived quality of election: The case of Hong Kong after Umbrella Movement |
11:30 – 11:45 | Break |
11:45 – 12:45 | Speaker 6: Dr Huan-Kai Tseng, Dr Wayne Lee, Mr Osbern Huang and Professor Yu-tzung Chang The Many Dimensions of Political Discourse on Taiwan among Chinese Netizens: An Analysis of 10 million Weibo posts |
12:45 – 15:00 | Lunch |
*This event was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No.: UGC/IDS14/17)