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About the Conference

【會議時間 Date】2022.10.28（Friday）09:00-17:00
【會議地點 Venue】國立政治大學綜合院館3樓國際會議廳
                                  International Conference Room, 3th floor, General Building
                                  National Chengchi University

The Taiwan Institute for Governance and Communication Research (TIGCR) will hold an international conference on “Political Polarization: Perspectives of Governance and Communication” on 28 October 2022 at the National Chengchi University.

On the basis of the discussion in the 2021 TIGCR International Conference, this conference will focus on the phenomenon of political polarization and its core concepts: democratic governance, social media usage, and political communication.

For the 2022 TIGCR International Conference, scholars are invited to analyze the causes, distribution, and impacts of political polarization related to algorithm, fake news, political participation, issue position, and ideology, etc., by using survey data, big data, content analysis, and comparative studies. We aim to prevent and alleviate polarization of opinion to create a sustainable and harmonious society.

Panel 1：Political Polarization, Partisanship and Populism
Panel 2：Political Communication in the New Media Use
Panel 3：The ABCDEs of Public Sector: Assessing the Behaviors, Characteristics, and Decision-making of Public Employees

Keynote Speech
     Chair: Chi Huang（黃紀）
          Director, Taiwan Institute for Governance and Communication Research, NCCU

     Keynote speaker: Ran Wei （魏然）
          Chair Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

     Topic: "Mobile Media for Civic Engagement: Evolving Opportuneness and Future Challenges“

【重要公告 Important Announcement】                                                                   
The 2022 TIGCR conference organizing committee remains vigilant in its monitoring of the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to prioritize the health and safety of its attendees. For this reason, the conference will be held in a hybrid format with both onsite and online versions to accommodate all participants.

                                   會議議程 Conference Agenda 

【Speech】Understanding the Strategic Logic of the 1992 Consensus in Taiwan-China Relations

Speaker: Brett V. Benson (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University)

Date: 2021/03/22 (Monday) 12:10-13:40

Place: Room 270728, 7F, General Building, NCCU

Author Bio

Brett V. Benson is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University.  His research interests lie in the areas of international relations and Chinese politics and East Asian relations. He has worked on military alliances and interstate conflict and is the author of Constructing International Security: Alliances, Deterrence, and Moral Hazard (Cambridge University Press, 2012). His current research focuses on the role of weapons systems in international politics.  In particular, he is studying nuclear weapons and strategies countries use to reduce proliferation, the relationship between the sale of conventional weapons and military alliances, and the effects of small arms markets on intrastate conflicts.  In addition to his work on international relations topics, he is also involved in a project that examines the effect of religious bias on voters’ decisions in the US presidential election.

Website: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/political-science/bio/brett-benson

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For the 2020 TIGCR International Conference on “Political Polarization: Perspective of Governance and Communication”, scholars are invited to analyze the causes, distribution, and impacts of political polarization related to algorithm, fake news, political participation, issue position, and ideology, etc., by using survey data, big data, content analysis, and comparative studies. We aim to prevent and alleviate polarization of opinion to create a sustainable and harmonious society.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Political Polarization: public opinion survey, technological impacts on political attitudes and behaviors, causes, effects, and related discussions of political polarization, etc.
2. Democratic Governance: political attitudes of government bureaucrats and citizens, polarization perception and democratic governance, and bureaucratic responsiveness, etc.
3. Political Communication: news media and political communication, governance and communication interaction, political polarization and social media usage, fake news, echo chamber effect, and algorithm, etc.

Important Dates

1. Abstract Submission Deadline: 16 March 2020
2. Acceptance Notification: 6 April 2020
3. Full paper submission deadline: 30 September 2020