The rise of social media in China will be the focus of an upcoming panel to be held in conjunction with the Sixth Annual China Town Hall Oct. 29.
Wisconsin China Initiative Director and Professor of Chinese literature and culture Nicole Huang will serve as the moderator for “Information Revolution: Social Media in China,” from 4-5 p.m. in room 226 of the Pyle Center.
Three other L&S faculty members will participate in the discussion: Zhongdang Pan (Communication Arts), Melanie Manion (Political Science) and Sida Liu (Sociology). University of North Carolina-Charlotte's Min Jiang will join them to discuss such issues as how social media have impacted the 2012 leadership transition in China, how the legal profession has been mobilized by microblogs and how Internet use affects civic engagement in China.
Following the panel, Jiang will give a lecture, "Micro-blogging, Micro-power? Chinese Twitter and China's Political Affairs," at 6 p.m. in the AT&T Lounge on the Pyle Center's main floor. Then at 7 p.m., Gary Locke, the United States ambassador to China, will speak via a national webcast.
The panel is free; registration for Jiang's lecture and Locke's webcast costs $20 for guests and $10 for students. For more information, see the Madison Committee on Foreign Relations' website.