The 2020 National Communication Strategy Forum on

Global Communication and National Development: Building Communities Across Borders

The School of Journalism Renmin University of China, National Communication Strategy Research Center, RUC, Research Center of Journalism and Social Development, RUC

Beijing, China

June 18, 2020

Renmin University of China’s School of Journalism and National Communication Strategy Research Center proudly announce the 2020 National Communication Strategy Forum on “Global Communication and National Development: Building Communities Across Borders.” The Forum will be held in Beijing on June 18, 2020.

The Forum aims to address some of the urgent and far-reaching issues related to the complex and dynamic interrelationships between global communication and national development. 

In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of an array of digital communication technologies such as ubiquitous networks, social media platforms, big data, artificial intelligence, etc. The emergence and increasingly widespread use of these technologies have brought about new possibilities in cross-cultural communication among people and nations, in the re-mediation between the physical world and the virtual world, and in the transformation of new forms of cross-border networks and human communities. 

While these cutting-edge digital technologies have aroused much excitement and created development opportunities in diverse industries and commercial enterprises, arts and entertainment fields, as well as various aspects of national development, they have also incurred numerous social, economic, political and cultural issues or challenges, especially from the perspectives of intercultural communication and international relations.

For example, what role can or should these digital communication technologies play in facilitating and maintaining constructive relationships among nations in ways that would promote mutual understanding and peaceful co-existence?

How and to what extent can and should individual users of these digital technologies do in engendering their cross-border interactions with their counterparts? 

What are the opportunities and challenges for nations and individuals in achieving cross-border consensus or community building? 

How will advances in digital communications affect global journalism, international relations, multicultural human interactions, cross-border movements of cultural products and media capitals, cosmopolitan education, global communication policy-making in national development, etc.?

We sincerely invite interested scholars, experts and industry leaders to participate in the 2020 Forum. We hope that through your presentations and exchanges, Forum participants will come up with recommendations for further academic and applied researches that would eventually help foster better practices in cross-border community building among nations from across the globe.

We welcome you to contact the organizer of the Forum at ncsrc@ruc.edu.cn to learn more about how to participate in the Forum or sign up for accessing further updates. Furthermore, we would like to remind you to submit your paper to our e-mail before Dec 30, 2019.