Speaker Biographies
Joshua Benton is director of the Nieman Journalism
Lab at Harvard University. The Lab is a collaborative attempt to figure out how
quality journalism can survive and thrive in the Internet age. Before spending a
year at Harvard as a 2008 Nieman Fellow, he spent 10 years in newspapers, most recently
at The Dallas Morning News. His reports on cheating on standardized tests in the
Texas public schools led to the permanent shutdown of a school district and won
the Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has
reported from 10 foreign countries, been a Pew Fellow in International Journalism,
and three times been a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting.
Before Dallas, he was a reporter and rock critic for The Toledo Blade.
Zeng Hongjun is the Vice President of Qianlong.com, a comprehensive national news network that
has delivered news via mobile phone since 2005. He graduated with a Bachelor of
Arts from Xiamen University (1983-1987), and finished his MA degree from Renmin
University (2004-2007). Mr. Zeng worked in Ministry of Commerce of the People’s
Republic of China since 1987 to 1995, first as a clerk in HR Departments, then as
a journalist & editor in International Business News. He then went to Tanzania
in 1995, and served as a secretary in Commercial Department in Embassy of China
for 2 years. During 1997-2000, he went back to International Business News
as an editor and also served as a manager in China Insurance Information.com at
the same time. He has been Vice President of Qianlong.com since 2000.
Zheng Ning is Assistant Professor in Law at the
Department of School of Politics and Law in the Communication University of China.
She graduated with a Bachelor and Master of Law from Renmin University and went
to pursue a doctorate in constitutional and administrative law from 2005-2008, also
at Renmin University, where she held the positions of Standing General Secretary
of doctoral candidates of Constitutional Law and Administrative Law Forum and Assistant
Director of Chinese Administrative Law Research Institute. Her primary research
interests are in regulation of administrative discretion, regulatory impact assessment,
freedom of expression and media regulation. She has written and contributed to nearly
thirty articles and books on topics in administrative law and systems of regulation
in China.
Kuang Wenbo is the youngest Professor at the School
of Journalism and Communication at Renmin University of China. He has researched
new media since 1994, finishing his doctoral dissertation at Wuhan University on
Internet publications. His first book, Introduction to Internet Media (2001),
was the first research book for new media in China; his second, Introduction to Online
Journalism (2001), was the first and standard journalism textbook about
new media for journalism and mass communication schools at universities in China.
He published the first book about mobile media, Introduction to Mobile Media in
2006, and has now published 9 books and more than a hundred papers on new media
research. He continues to study the influence of communication technology and research
on mobile media. His current research is sponsored by the New Century Excellent
Talents in University Program from the China Education Ministry.
Guobin Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University . He
is also a faculty in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and an affiliated faculty
in the Department of Sociology of Columbia University. He is the author of The Power
of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009), and co-editor
(with Ching Kwan Lee) of Re-Envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and
Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China (2007). For more information,
see http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/~gyang.
Moderators
Anne Chen is a post-graduate research fellow with
the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is
currently working with Monroe Price to organize the pilot panel for a mobile technology
online seminar series. Her research interests center around the intersection of
law and technology and includes telecommunications policy, information privacy,
and mobile regulation. Anne received her Bachelor’s degree summa cum laude
in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary and her J.D. from Yale
Law School, where she was a Student Fellow with the Information Society Project
and an editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation.
Jacques deLisle is the Stephen A. Cozen Professor
of Law and a member of the faculty of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University
of Pennsylvania, Director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
and a member of the National Committee on U.S.- China Relations. deLisle's research
and teaching focus on Chinese law and politics, including law and economic reform,
China's approach to international law, and the rule of law. He serves frequently
as an expert witness on P.R.C. law and government policies. He is also a consultant,
lecturer and advisor to foreign-assisted legal reform, development and education
programs, primarily in China.
Hongmei Li is an assistant professor in international
communication at Georgia State University. She is currently a George Gerbner Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She
is now working with Professor Monroe Price on several China-related projects. Her
research interests include advertising and consumer culture, globalization, cultural
identities and the Chinese Internet. Hongmei Li obtained her Ph.D. from the Annenberg
School for Communication, University of Southern California and her Bachelor’s degree
in English language and literature from Peking University, China. Before she came
to the US in 2000, she had been working for a Chinese publishing house as an editor
for three years.
Wang Sixin, LLM (1995) & J.D. (2003), is an associate
professor of the faculty of law. He currently researches human rights and mass communication
law theory. He was a visiting scholar of the Danish Institute of Human Rights from
August to October in 2002. He has authored two monographs, Freedom of Expression
in Cyberspace and Freedom of Expression, Principles and Their Many Uses and over
40 published academic journal articles, and is co-translator of U.N. Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights: CCPR Commentary (Sanlian Publishing House, 2003),
co-author of Introduction of Move and TV Law (Fudan University Publishing
House, 2005), and a participator of many Human Rights Programs. For more information,
please see his Chinese blog at http://wang4xin.fyfz.cn/blog/wang4xin/index.aspx.
Lokman Tsui is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg
School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and a Student Fellow at the
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University. His dissertation examines
transformations of journalism in a global and digital age, looking at news production
of citizen media in the global context. He has co-edited the book The Hyperlinked
Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (2008) together with
Dr. Joseph Turow. His research interests center around the areas of new media, global
communication and journalism. He divides his time between Philadelphia, Boston,
Amsterdam and Hong Kong.
