On June 25th - 29th, TSJC Professors and Students attended the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) at Dublin City University, Ireland. The conference was addressed by Michael D Higgins, President of Ireland, on the overarching theme of "Crises, 'Creative Destruction' and the Global Power and Communication Orders". About 1,000 scholars from 80 countries attended this year.

TSJC had six papers chosen by the IAMCR committee:

Professor JIN, Jianbin, Administrative Dean of TSJC, and Master’s Student CHEN, Xiaobo, “Social Media and the Chinese Press: A Case Study of the Southern Weekend Incident”.

Professor LU，Jia and Master’s Student LI, Boliang, “Media Representation of Mobile Technologies: A Content Analysis of Television Commercials”.

Doctor DAI, Jia with TSJC and Doctor J. Sonia Huang with National Chiao Tung University, “A Resource-Based Approach for Competitive Advantage among Chinese News Sites”.

PhD Student MENG, Lun, “The elderly in the digital world: the reason and impact of the internet anxieties in the elderly Chinese”.

PhD Student OUYANG, Chunxue, “Critical Analysis of ‘Chinese Elements’ in American Television Series”.

Master’s Student XU, Yu, “An Author-level Analysis of Media and Communication Academic Community in Mainland China: A New Perspective from Social Network Theory”.