Culture, Creativity and Communication

Contact person: Gejun Huang | Email: Gejun.Huang@gdsqbz.com

Members: Julie Bilby ¡¬ Tingting Hu ¡¬ Gejun Huang ¡¬? Dikshya Karki ¡¬? Xianwen Kuang ¡¬? Angela Lewis ¡¬ Zixiu Liu ¡¬? Rong Ma ¡¬ Hui Miao ¡¬ Marco Pellitteri ¡¬ Merisa Skulsuthavong? ¡¬ Huanruo Wang ¡¬ Xiaoling Zhang

Introduction

The Culture, Creativity, and Communication Research Cluster brings together XJTLU-DMC scholars and students with diverse research approaches and interests related to the very broad areas of culture, creativity, and communication. Our aim, as a group, is to support, challenge, and hold each other accountable as we strive to conduct research that is competitive and relevant in the local, national, and global context. We also seek to provide a forum for established and early-career scholars and students ¨C together forming a community of research practice that will benefit all members – as well as the department, school, and university.

Themes for investigation include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Cultural diplomacy and soft power
• Popular culture ¨C animation, games, music, online subcultures, participatory culture, fandom, celebrity and entertainment, fashion
• Heritage (tangible and intangible; memory and space) ¨C domestic and international, music, arts, performance, historical sites, celebrations and traditions, digital heritage
• Cultural studies ¨C gender, identity, consumer culture, cultural policy
• Creative industries ¨C advertising, music, animation, film and video, games, radio, and podcasting
• Creative outputs ¨C film, comics and graphic novels, animation, advertising, music
• Audio communication
• Visual communication
• Advertising communication
• Health communication
• Strategic communication
• Social media/platforms
• Cross-cultural communication