29 March 2010

Filmmakers Visit JMSC During Film Festival

Clara Law and Eddie Fong’s innovative films navigate the Chinese diaspora. Their filmography examines this subject with stories and characters traversing continents and blurring societal boundaries. The married director-writer team discussed their work during a March 25 film seminar at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre. They had travelled to Hong Kong from Australia to screen two films at the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival: Like a Dream and Red Earth.
26 March 2010

JMSC Adopts QR Codes

The JMSC has started using QR codes, which look like a two-dimensional square of barcode, on its posters.
25 March 2010

March 29: Screening — Last Train Home

Mainland-born film director Fan Lixin will show his award-winning documentary Last Train Home (歸途列車) on Monday, March 29 at 12.30pm at HKU’s Main Building Room 103. The film shows one of the world’s largest annual […]
22 March 2010

April 13: A History of Chinese in America

Filmmaker Nancy Tong and cultural critic Ang Sze Wei will co-present a talk on the history of Chinese people in America on Tuesday, April 13 at the Agnès b. CINEMA! at the Hong Kong Arts […]
22 March 2010

NextGen Journalists

Len Apcar, the new economics editor of the New York Times and visiting lecturer at the JMSC in online media and development, led a discussion on Friday about new and social media. Apcar was joined […]
17 March 2010

JMSC Students Cover the NPC

Four JMSC Bachelor of Journalism students covered the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing for Hong Kong local daily newspaper, Ming Pao. Chai Yi […]
17 March 2010

Hong Kong: Our City, Our Society

The latest instalment of Hong Kong Stories (香港故事) has arrived. Students of Masato Kajimoto’s New Media Workshop (JMSC 0007) course have released this week their term projects under the theme of Hong Kong: Our City, […]
16 March 2010

Yang Hengjun on Bloggers and Social Change in China

It testifies to the power of the Internet in China that a jack of all trades like Yang Hengjun (杨恒均) — expert on international affairs, writer of spy fiction and business executive — can carve out a role for himself as a one-man media powerhouse. Yang has been online for five years, and seriously blogging for just three. But measured by unique IP visits to his various blog sites, he now averages 150,000 readers a day.