On October 20 and 21, France Telecom R&D Beijing, in association with the Research Center for Social Theory of Peking University, has organized a conference on "Mobile Communication and Asian Modernities" at its newly built Innovation Gardens.
38 international speakers were present on the conference and gave their views on different themes: Social Change in China; Emergent Uses and Digital Convergencies; Social Groups and Changing Forms of Class Cohesion...
MEDIA
6 media joined the seminar: 《Communications World Weekly》, 《China Business》, 《China Daily》…
Some articles have been published after the Seminar.
Some speakers' papers and PPT presentations are available online:
Mobile Cultures of Migrant Workers in Southern China; Hailed, Haunted, Hacked: Mobile Modernities in Contemporary Indonesia, or stories from the Other End of the Digital Divide? ; Social Networks and Individualism: Today’s Social Transformation in Urban China; The Economy of Lucky Numbers: When Old Superstition meets new media...
