Day 2 – Saturday, 17 October 2026

1. When AI Moderation Fails to Sustain Inclusion: Coordination Work, Contestability, and Situated Cost Placement in Platform Governance Youyou Tang — Independent Researcher
2. From Principles to Practice: Governing Generative AI in Southeast Asian Maritime Journalism Lupita Wijaya — Research Fellow, La Trobe University
3. AI as the Moral Decision-Maker: Public Trust, Distrust, and Engagement with the Company’s Communicated CSR Commitment in an Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Model Keonyoung Park — Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University Jiamin Xi — Hong Kong Baptist University Dongqing Xu — Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
4. Principles vs. Consequences: Exploring Ethical Orientations in Public AI Policy Support Hyelim Lee — Assistant Professor, Korea University Soo Yun Kim — Senior Researcher, DaLI Lab Francis Jizou Ye — PhD Student, University of Oklahoma Seongbum Seo — PhD Student, KAIST Jeong-Nam Kim — Professor, KAIST
5. Building China’s AI Agenda: Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of Government Attention Liang Kaijie — PhD Student, Hong Kong Baptist University

1. Why Human Performers Are Preferred? Warmth, Competence, and Humanness as Mediators and the Moderating Role of Performer Disclosure Hyun-Ah Park — Research Professor, Korea University Se-Hoon Jeong — Professor, Korea University
2. Prompting Misogyny: An Audience-Positioned Audit of Generative AI Responses to Manosphere Discourse Harry Febrian — Teaching Associate, University of Melbourne Lupita Wijaya — Research Fellow, La Trobe University
3. Whose Responsibility? A Cross-Lingual Audit of Refusal and Framing in Six Large Language Models Yanxin Liu — Graduate Student (MA in Communication), Hong Kong Baptist University
4. The Illusion of Neutrality: Examining Gendered Over-Signification and Voyeurism in AI-Mediated Discourse Franziska OY Cheng — Lecturer I, Hong Kong Baptist University Steven L. Walker — Medical College of Georgia
5. Algorithmic raciosemiotic ideologies in Western and Chinese text-to-image AI models’ migrant representations: A multimodal critical discourse analysis Sopuruchi Christian Aboh — Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Anne Ambler Schluter — Associate Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University John Ganaah — Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

1. The Diverse Impacts of Artificial Intelligence Technology on ‘Representing Reality’ in Documentary Filmmaking Fan Xia — Visiting PhD Student, Hong Kong Baptist University
2. Human Faces, Ethical Tensions: A Content Analysis of Intimate, Marital, and Family Narratives in Human-Like AI-Generated Short Dramas Yao Xinrui — PhD Candidate, University of Malaya
3. Can Generative AI Represent Chinese Classical Dance? Embodied Knowledge, Cultural Authenticity, and Film Choreography Chan Wai Chau — PhD Student, Hong Kong Baptist University
4. From Conflict to Coordination: Policy Discourse and Negotiated Governance of Generative AI in Cultural Industries Haocheng Wang — Undergraduate Student, Communication University of China Jieyun Gong — Undergraduate Student, Central Conservatory of Music
5. Automated Beauty: AI Noise-Cancelling Technologies in Xiaomi’s Smartphone Cameras Carloalberto Treccani — Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University Mick Vierbergen — Senior Research Assistant, Hong Kong Baptist University

1. When One Case Moves a Model: Machine Exemplification in Health Judgment and Public Communication Yixi Zhou — PhD Student, Hong Kong Baptist University Qidong Lin — Master’s Student, Johns Hopkins University
2. International Audience Perceptions of AI English News Anchors in Promoting Chinese Local Culture: A Q Methodological Study Wenkang Zhang — PhD Candidate, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Jiaxing Hu — Lecturer, Shenzhen Technology University
3. Whose AI Can We Trust? AI Source Origin, Platform Moderation Cues, and Perceptions of AI-Generated News Hanjing Wang — PhD Candidate, Hong Kong Baptist University Stephanie Jean Tsang — Associate Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University Tianlun Zhou — PhD Candidate, Hong Kong Baptist University
4. Responsible AI in High-Stakes Communication: AI-Generated Health and Financial News Videos in Hong Kong Wong Siu Ki — MSc in AI and Digital Media, Hong Kong Baptist University
5. AI co-creates the reconstruction of the news commentary field: the intervention of the technological field and the reproduction of the legitimacy of comments Qinxuan Li — PhD Candidate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

1. When Machines Compose: Generative AI Literacy, Governance Judgments, and User Responses to AI-Generated Music Haocheng Wang — Undergraduate Student, Communication University of China Jieyun Gong — Undergraduate Student, Central Conservatory of Music
2. When Does AI-Driven Personalized Advertising Work? Advertising Value, AI Recommendation Disclosure, and Algorithmic Knowledge Jimin Oh — Master’s Student, Korea University Hana Shin — Postdoctoral Researcher, Korea University Se-Hoon Jeong — Professor, Korea University
3. When AI Fabricates Consumer Voice: Multimodal Authenticity Cues, Credibility Erosion, and Communicative Fairness in Platform-Mediated Commercial Communication Zhang Fayan — Master’s Graduate, Hong Kong Baptist University
4. Free to Paid Subscription: Generative AI Upgrade Intention under the EPPM Framework Mengying Zhang — Student, Peking University
5. Advisor or Advertiser? The Visibility-Credibility Paradox of Brand Recommendations in Generative Engine Optimization Ada Liu — PhD Student, Hong Kong Baptist University

1. Beyond Information Generation: AI-Mediated Interpretive Framing and the Reconfiguration of Cross-Cultural Meaning—Epistemic Inclusion and Interpretive Authority in Selected Asia-Pacific Knowledge Traditions Jingni Peng — Undergraduate Student, Beijing Foreign Studies University
2. From SEO to GEO: Does generative search allocate more discursive power to institutions than to individuals? Sun Tianran — Graduate Student, Hong Kong Baptist University
3. Communicating Auditability: How Mutual Recognition Frameworks Shape Public Trust in AI Across Political Systems Author name to be confirmed — Manager, Institute for Innovation and Translation, Hong Kong Baptist University
4. Does political information-seeking through generative AI decrease attitude polarization? Claudia Wilhelm — Associate Professor, University of Vienna Fatemeh Asadi Pour — University Assistant (Prae-Doc), University of Vienna
5. “I Think,” But Who Is the “I”? Subjectivity Reconstruction and Paradigm Reproduction in AI-Co-Created Commentary Qinxuan Li — PhD Candidate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

1. What is a Campus AI For? Student Judgements of Credibility, Privacy, and Value in University-Branded Generative AI Maximilian Wei Jie Wong — PhD Student, Boston University
2. Recontextualizing Global AI Technologies in Journalism Curriculum Design in Taiwan: A Comparative Analysis of Knowledge Systems Across Six Northern Universities Yu-Chun Liu — Master’s Student, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)
3. When Does Embodied Behaviour Become Actionable? From Session-Level Spatial Profiles to Decision-Level Learner State in Virtual Reality Daniel Shen Jiandong — Chief Executive Officer, Soggle Hong Kong Limited Choi Hee Sun — Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Paolo Mengoni — Senior Lecturer, Hong Kong Baptist University Li Zixin — AI Engineer, Soggle Hong Kong Limited Paulina Wong Pui Yun — Associate Professor, Lingnan University
4. Teaching AI Foundation with Tangible Electronic Neurons without Internet Vincent M. K. Lau — Assistant Professor, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi)
5. AI-Mediated Educational Communication and Hidden Inequalities in Higher Education: A Scoping Review Yue Chen — Independent Researcher (Co-first Author) Manxin Gan — Independent Researcher (Co-first Author) Weiqi Liu — Independent Researcher

1. From Personal Disappointment to Collective Grievance: How Attribution Shapes the Efficacy–Anger Relationship in Probability-Based Mobile Games Hangi Xu — PhD Student, Korea University Jennifer Ihm — Associate Professor, Korea University
2. Online Panel Gig Workers and Collective Action: An Extension of Social Identity Model of Collective Action Jisun Yoo — PhD Student, Korea University Jennifer Soyoung Ihm — Associate Professor, Korea University
3. Platformized Creativity and the Governance of AI in Contemporary China: State Imaginaries, Platform Power, and the Restructuring of Creative Labour Emilie Sin Yi Choi — PhD Candidate, City University of Hong Kong
4. Designing Ghost Work into the City: Regulatory Geography, Data Center Siting, and the Classificatory Joint Yun Daesan — PhD Student, Korea University Shin Haerin — Associate Professor, Korea University
5. After “Not Interested”: User Counter-Domestic_ation, Platform Power, and Perceived Control in AI-Driven Recommendation on Xiaohongshu Chun Kayee — Graduate Student, Tongji University Mei Mingli — Associate Professor / Supervisor, Tongji University

Day 3 – Sunday, 18 October 2026

1. From Polar Data to Tropical Warnings: An Institutional Audit of Responsible AI Readiness in Arctic and ASEAN Climate-Risk Communication Dr. Allen Long Cui — Deputy Dean and Founding Director, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Russia
2. The Message or the Messenger? Trust in AI-Generated versus Physician-Generated Medical Advice Wenqiang Zhang — Master’s Student, Hong Kong Baptist University
3. From Policy Texts to Action Scripts: Textual Transformation in Generative AI-Mediated Health Insurance Policy Communication in China Huang Cai Long — Master’s Student, Hong Kong Baptist University
4. Beyond Algorithmic Matching: How "Yuan" Sustains Lifelong Trust—An Ontological Media Study of a TCM Clan in the Age of Digital Healthcare Gaosipiao Xing — MA Student in Communication, Beijing Normal–Hong Kong Baptist University

1. K-TONE-Politics: A Large-Scale Dataset for Quotation-Level Political Tone Analysis in Korean Political News Jongchan Choi — PhD Student, College of Media and Communication, Korea University Jisun Yoo — PhD Student, College of Media and Communication, Korea University Jimin Oh — Master’s Student, College of Media and Communication, Korea University Jennifer Soyoung Ihm — Associate Professor, College of Media and Communication, Korea University Se-Hoon Jeong — Professor, College of Media and Communication, Korea University Daemin Park — Associate Professor, College of Media and Communication, Kwangwoon University
2. Concept Measurement in the Age of Large Models: Theory-Based Coding in Multimodal Short-Video Data Yingying Fan — PhD Candidate, Hong Kong Baptist University Yiran Li — Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University Kaijie Liang — PhD Student, Hong Kong Baptist University
3. Puppet Publics: Does Silicon Sampling Caricature the Economic Preferences of Under-Represented Groups? Ku Ching Yiu — Student, Hong Kong Shue Yan University Philip T. Y. Lee — Associate Professor, Hong Kong Shue Yan University
4. The rise of AI Fabricated citations and its impact on Biomedical publications Steven Lester Walker — Medical College of Georgia On Yee Franziska Cheng — Lecturer I, Hong Kong Baptist University

1. Rethinking Human-AI Communication through the Non-Human: Perspectives from South Asia Anilesh Kumar — Assistant Professor, Beijing Normal–Hong Kong Baptist University Arshad Amanullah — Research Fellow, Prime Ministers’ Museum
2. Developing an Anti-Scam Serious Simulation Game to Promote Inclusion for Newly Arrived Students in Hong Kong Hemsley M. S. Pang — Hong Kong Shue Yan University Bosco H. Y. Tsin — Lecturer, Hong Kong Shue Yan University Philip T. Y. Lee — Associate Professor, Hong Kong Shue Yan University
3. When One's Efforts Are Maliciously Labeled as "AI": The Impact of AI Stigmatization on Altruistic Intention Hongyi Lin — PhD Candidate in Social Psychology, Nanjing Normal University Yuru Shi — PhD Student in Marketing, Hong Kong Baptist University
4. Live-action Casts Vs AI Casts: Competing Ontologies, Narrativity, and Performativity of Short-form Dramas Kim-mui E. Elaine Chan — Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Chu Hai College