Svitlana Matviyenko 

HANGZHOU—November 14 will see an online seminar jointly conducted by the College of Media and International Culture (CMIC) of Zhejiang University and the Consortium of Internet and Society at the Communication University of Zhejiang (CUZ). The seminar is titled Internet Research in Global Transition and will be emphasizing on the topic: Internet in the Post-American Era: Technology, Governance, and Geopolitics. Professors from around the world, including the US, the UK, Canada and Australia will be giving lessons online.

Highlighting on Internet evolution and governance in the midst of global transition, the seminar will center on the development and governance of information and communications technology in the “Post-American Era” and will probe into social and technological transformation, geopolitical reconstruction, institutional response, and normative debate.

Opening Remarks

09:00-09:10

Lu Wei

Zhejiang University

Keynote 1

09:10-09:50

Dwayne Winseck, Carleton University

Daya Thussu, Hong Kong Baptist University

Session 1:

Geopolitics and Social-technical Process 

09:50-11:00

Shinjoung Yeo

Queens College, City University of New York

l’Europe qui protège（The Europe that protects) but for whom?

Lianrui JIa and Fan Liang

University of Toronto

The Globalization of China’s Digital Platforms

Jing Wang,

NYU Shanghai

China’s Blockchain Campaign

Session 2:

Cyberwar Topologies: In Struggle of A Post-American Internet

11:00-12:10

Kayla Hilstob 

Simon Fraser University

“Confronting Convergence in ICE's Prison-Warehouse Duplex”

Niels ten Oever 

Texas A&M University and University of Amsterdam

“How the Cloud Became a Fog: 5G And the Reconfiguration of Information Networks”

D. W. Kamish 

Simon Fraser University

“The Black Panther Party's Post-American Infrastructures”

Anna Engelhardt 

Queen Mary University of London

“Spectral Volumes of Russian Cyber Warfare”

Asia Bazdireva (Geocinema) & Solveig Seuss 

University of Applied Sciences & Arts Northewestern Switzerland / Geocinema

“Environmental Machines, Datified Earths Synopsis”