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Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Statement Condemning anti-Asian Hatred and Violence ​

We are shocked and saddened, angered and enraged by the shootings in Atlanta including the killing of eight people and targeting of six women of Asian descent. We grieve with the families and communities across America and internationally, that are affected by this tragic and senseless act of hatred and violence. From March 19, 2020 to February 28, 2021, the Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center received reports of 3,795 incidents of discrimination, which represents only a fraction of the actual hate, harassment, and violence the AAPI community is suffering. 

We stand firmly in solidarity with our AAPI brothers and sisters and allies across America—that have already demonstrated in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburg, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington D.C.—and beyond with the international community and global allies that continue to fight against systematic and everyday injustices including the fight against anti-Asian hate-filled violence, misogyny, xenophobia, sexual discrimination, harassment, and abuse. 

As a scholarly association committed to the advancement of Chinese Communication Studies, we cannot remain silent on this issue. Silence means tolerance and acquiescence, and may possibly invite more, and worse, hate-filled violence—it is time to STOP the targeted racism, misogyny, cis-gendered heteronormativity, and xenophobia that has so often been taken for granted or altogether ignored. Targeted and organized attacks on our community must be addressed by the establishment that works invisibly to set conditions that reproduce those systems of discrimination, marginalization, and oppression. 

As an Association made up of intersectional voices and international positionalities, we strongly condemn anti-Asian racism, hate, and harassment, targeted violence, misogyny, xenophobia, dehumanization, discrimination, and abuse. As scholars, educators, and members of the multicultural and international community, we must continue making efforts to speak out collectively and advocate as allies against the resurgence of hatred and violence, including eradicating all types of hate-filled violence that is racially motivated, xenophobic, and sexually driven. We must do so at both the local and national, international and global levels, to deconstruct and change the systems that reproduce ignorance, prejudice, injustice, and oppression. 

The shootings in Atlanta are the latest indicator of the crisis beyond the scope of one event, one community, one city, and one nation. This sweeping resurgence across America is symptomatic of the systematic racism deeply rooted in and reproduced by the governmental, legal, educational, and mediated systems, networks, and organizations. We call on our local, national, and global leaders across government, legal, education, and media institutions to act NOW—to address the shootings in Atlanta a hate crime, to raise resources for the needs of AAPI communities, to challenge anti-AAPI racism, and to eradicate all types of hate-filled violence. We stand in solidarity with the AAPI community, committed to using our scholarly platform to advocate for justice and enacting change, to Educate, Learn, Support, and Participate.

Dear ACCS Members,
 
Hope all is good with you during this unusual time! Our ACCS 2020 Spring Newsletter is coming. We are warmly inviting your contribution. Your sharing is really important to our ACCS community. If possible, please send any of the following information to me at [email protected] by June 7 Sunday. Thank you for your time. Look forward to hearing from you.
 
Any good news you want to share with the community?
·      Books, book chapters, and journal articles published in or after November 2019;
·      Conference presentations and keynote speeches in or after November 2019;
·      Promotions, new jobs, or moves;
·      Awards and honors;
·      Anything else you'd like the community to know about you.
 
Any other information that would be of interest to ACCS members?
·      Have a call for papers you want to share?
·      Know of an interesting research opportunity?
·      Want to promote a position opening on your campus?
 
Best,
Shaohai
 
 
Shaohai Jiang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communications and New Media
National University of Singapore
Tel: (65) 6516-2002
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/cnmjs/
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Call for Submissions
 
This special section of China Media Research invites scholars from different disciplines to submit manuscripts on the theme of “Communication, Competence and Creativity in a Changing World.” The increasing globalization links the conception of intercultural communication to a clear direction of research: How to extend more communication fields in terms of the digital world? How to improve competence for adequate expression? How to evoke more creativity for effectively communicating and understanding? The special section aims to explore communication scholarship that contributes to our understanding of psychological, socio-cultural, organizational, occupational, technological, or generational factors that impede or enhance our competence and creativity for better communications. Following these considerations, scholars are invited to submit their original manuscripts that address the following topics, among others, from the perspective of communication, competence, and creativity:
 
·       Communication Competence
·       Communication in a Changing World
·       Creativity in Communication
·       Global Emergency Communication
·       Occupational Communication
·       Intergroup or Intercultural Conflict Communication
·       Culture and Communication Styles
·       Socialization and Organizational Culture
·       Online and Offline Communication
·       Intergenerational Gap and Communication
·       Marginalized Communities
 
Submissions must not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another publication. An extended abstract (up to 1,000 words) or a complete paper at the first stage of the reviewing process will be accepted. All the submissions must be received by May 8, 2020. If the extended abstract is accepted, the complete manuscript must be received by August 8, 2020. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the APA publication manual (6th edition) and should not exceed 8,000 words including tables and references. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed, and the authors will be notified of the final acceptance/rejection decision. The quarterly journal of China Media Research publishes both print and online versions.

Please direct questions and submissions to the CMR special section guest editor Dr. Mona Sun at [email protected].