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Exchange Program

AUSACE 2011 Conference: Digital & Media Literacy

2011.10.28 - 2011.10.31

Hosted by the American University of Beirut, the 16th Annual Conference of the Arab-U.S. Association of Communication Educators (AUSACE) was held in Beirut from 28 – 31 October 2011. Sponsored by the Better Hong Kong Foundation, a group of three distinguished academia in journalism from Hong Kong participated in and delivered presentations in the conference. The conference theme tackled two current, pressing, and interdependent concepts: digital literacy and media literacy, and their evolutionary and revolutionary roles in contemporary media education, media practices, and media policies.

List of delegates from Hong Kong:

Prof. Joseph Chan, Professor of Journalism and Communication, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Mr. C K Lau, Principal Lecturer, Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University and Former Editor-in-Chief, South China Morning Post

Prof. Lee Chin-chuan, Chair Professor and Head, Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong


(L to R) Prof. Lee Chin-chuan, Mr. C K Lau and Prof. Joseph Chan