The 60th Anniversary of the School of Journalism and Communication
Sustainability and Sustainable Media
The 60th Anniversary International Conference on Sustainability and Sustainable Media brings together scholars and thought leaders worldwide to contemplate solutions to improving the well-being of local and global communities. This conference focuses on sharing knowledge in sustainable media and communication research, fostering advancement in sustainability on a global scale.
Global Academic Partnerships
18 scholars from Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia will participate in discussions across 7 panels during the 2-day conference at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
What We Do
Sustainability Agenda
Break down disciplinary, geographic, and social boundaries,
and encourage multidirectional flows of knowledge and resources.
Narratives of Repair: Imagining Sustainable Digital Futures
This panel understands narratives as infrastructures that offer tactical elements of imagining, building, and repairing the world.
Sustainability and the Future of Work on Digital Platforms
This panel frames sustainability as a parameter of governance and culture to examine challenges facing the global communities of creators and platform workers.
Journalism and Sustainable News Media
Journalism plays an indispensable role in helping societies achieve sustainable development, through offering information and organising public deliberation.
Data and Sustainability
This panel explores the intersection of data, technology, and sustainability, and gains insights from leading scholars who are at the forefront of this evolving field.
Empowering Societal Change through Public Relations
This panel offers valuable perspectives on the role of public relations in advancing social responsibility and sustainability on a global scale.
Cultures of Technology and the Politics of Sustainability
This panel addresses social equity, health, ethics, and technologies in contexts of migration, digital labour, the politics of innovation, and sustainable urban spaces.
Communicating Sustainable Advertising and Market Differentiation
Advertisers are constantly reinventing how they should communicate eco-friendly values and practices.
Discussion and Q&A Session
Inter- and transdisciplinary transformation of knowledge generation, and roundtable discussions to connect the humanities and social sciences.
Why Now?
The conference explores the media and communication transition through an innovative and humanistic lens, aiming to create a sustainable social impact that generates real value through global academic partnerships. This conference facilitates international collaboration in debates and discussions that inform sustainability transitions and generate social impacts across various contexts.
Why Significant?
Start Your Journey in Exploring Sustainability
The 2-day conference expands discussions on technological and ecological advances in media and communication research areas, we embrace diversity, inclusion, and social equity. We call for research collaboration as a process to better humanity and social science in the service of societal transformation and sustainability. Join us on this adventurous journey!