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Global communication in the age of the covid-19 pandemic

2020-05-06

Speaker: Terry Flew, Professor of Communication and Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Biography:

Terry Flew is Professor of Communication and Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and a researcher with the Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society & Technology. He is the author of 13 books (four edited), including Understanding Global Media, Politics, Media and Democracy in Australia, Media Economics and Global Creative Industries. He has authored 63 book chapters, 100 refereed journal articles, and 16 reports and research monographs.

He has been the President of the International Communications Association (ICA) during 2019-2020, and organized the 69th ICA Annual Conference in Washington DC in 2019. He has been an Executive Board member of the International Communications Association since 2013, and was President of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) in 2009-10. In 2019, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

He has been involved in research activities that have generated over $7 million in research income. Grants include ARC Discovery projects on creative industries in China, digital platform governance and the future of media policy, creative industries in suburban areas, and east Asian media production, as well as ARC Linkage projects on citizen journalism, web counselling for young people, social media and crisis communication, and creative industries in regional Australia.  

Venue: Dingtalk 

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