Curriculum Vitae
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Ian Weber
May 2008
Office Address:
Department of Communication
111A Bolton Hall
MS 4234 TAMU
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4234
Contact Information:
iweber@tamu.edu / iwe8er@yahoo.com (June 1 to August 31, 2008)
EDUCATION
Ph.D 2000 Queensland University of Technology, Australia (Chinese Media Studies)
Grad. Dip. FET 1996 University of Southern Queensland, Australia (Instructional Design)
M.Bus. 1995 Queensland University of Technology, Australia (Communication Management)
B.A. 1990 University of Southern Queensland, Australia (Journalism)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University 2007-present
- Director, Instructional Technology, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University 2006-2007
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University 2004-2007
Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2001-2004
Program Curriculum Coordinator (Communication), Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore 2003-2004
Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Graduate School of Business, Australia 1999-2001
Lecturer (visiting), Griffith University Gold Coast, Australia 1998-1999
Adjunct Teaching Fellow (visiting), Bond University, Australia 1998-1999
Assistant Lecturer (part-time), Queensland University of Technology, Department of Journalism and Communication 1994-1996
Journalist/Sub-editor, Australian Provincial Newspaper Group (APN), Tweed Heads Daily News, 1991-1993
Journalist, Fairfax Newspaper Group, The Gold Coast Mail 1990
Photojournalist, Australian Provincial Newspapers (APN), Toowoomba Chronicle 1988-1989
News Photographer, The Territorian Newspaper (News Corporation), Australia 1986-1987
News Photographer (freelance), News Corporation, Seville, Spain 1985
ACADEMIC GRANTS AND RESEARCH SUPPORT
Active
Co-Principal Investigator (with Robert Harmel, Ben Crouch, Melanie Manion, T.J. Shi, Kent Jennings), Texas A&M University, “China Archive, Survey and Education (CASE) Project,” 9/30/06-12/31/11, Total: $350,000.
Principal Investigator, Texas A&M University, College of Liberal Arts’ Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, “China-Japan Relations: Bias and Objectivity in News Reporting on Cultural Technology Industries,” 5/1/07-10/31/08, Total: $10,000.
Completed
Principal Investigator, Texas A&M University, College of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Enhancement Program, “Family Television Viewing Preferences in China: Influence of Generation, Gender, Conflict on Program Choice,” 4/7/06-7/7/07, Total: $2,500.
Principal Investigator, Academic Research Fund – AcRF, Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE), “Shaping the Meaning of Digital Television: A Model of Diffusion in China,” 03/01/03-2/28/04, Total: $3,200.
Principal Investigator, Academic Research Fund – AcRF, Singapore Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), “Living the e-Lifestyle: Assessing User Perceptions and Promotion of Infocomm Development Authority’s (IDA),” 2/1/02-1/31/03, Total: $1,500.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Journal Articles
Weber, I., Lu, J, & Xi, C. Chinese family television viewing: A 20-year mapping of cultural change in gender and generational preferences (expected submission date, July, 2008.
Weber, I., Liu, X., & Quick, B. Going digital: A socio-linguistic analysis of media coverage of digital television in the United States (expected submission date, October 2008).
ASEAN youth and civil society: Critical responses from Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia (expected submission date, December 2008)
Books
Chinese family television viewing preferences: A survey – Shanghai, Beijing, Xian (Book project, expected publication December 2009)
Global media and China-Japan conflict: A cross-cultural analysis of bias and objectivity in news reporting on cultural technology industries (Book project, expected publication December 2010)
Global Projects
World journalism study: 21st century journalists – Roles, Values, and Ethics ( Ian Weber, Greater China – Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong), Usha Rodrigues ( Australia, India), Levi Obijiofor, University of Queensland (Africa), and Penny O'Donnell, University of Technology, Sydney (Latin America), Stephen Lacy, Michigan State University ( United States).
PUBLICATIONS
Under Review: Journal Articles
Weber, I., Liu, X., & Vedlitz, A. Size does matter! A socio-linguistic analysis of New York Times coverage of nanotechnology (1985-2004). Submitted to Communication Research
Weber, I. Commodifying digital television in China: A socio-linguistic analysis of media discourse, technology deployment and control. Submitted to New Media & Society
Lu, J., & Weber, I. Internet piracy in China: A user analysis of resistance to global software copyright enforcement. Submitted to Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
Weber, I., & Ahmed, I. Theorizing online learner behaviors: An environmental model for participation, interaction and collaboration. Submitted to Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Maruyama, N., & Weber, I. Negotiating identity: Experiences of “visiting home” among Chinese Americans. Submitted to Tourism Culture and Communication
Published Refereed Journal Articles
Lu, J., & Weber, I. (2008). Chinese government and software copyright: Manipulating the boundaries between public and private spheres. International Journal of Communication, 1: 81-99.
Weber, I., & Lu, J. (2007). Internet and self-regulation in China: The cultural logic of controlled commodification. Media, Culture & Society , 29(5): 773-790.
Lu, J., & Weber, I. (2007). State, power and mobile communication: A case study of China. New Media & Society, 9(6): 925-944.
Weber, I. (2005). Digitizing the dragon: Challenges facing China’s television industry. New Media & Society 7(6): 793-808.
Weber, I. (2004). Cross-media promotion and the future of digital television in China: Balancing competitive instincts with business realities. Asia Communication and Media Studies, 205-211.
Lim, T.K.E., & Weber, I. (2004). In search of the total learning experience (TLE): A case study of Singapore’s e-inclusive society. Journal of Information & Knowledge Management, 3(3), 233-243.
Most Outstanding Research Paper, NECB2002 – eNLIGHTING: SUCCESSFUL e-BUSINESS MODEL Conference, Bangkok, Thailand.
Kluver, R., & Weber, I. (2003). Patriotism and the limits of globalization: The renegotiation of citizenship in Singapore. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 27(4), 371-388.
Weber, I. (2003). Localizing the global: Successful strategies for selling television programs to China. International Communication Gazett e, 65(3), 273-290.
Top 5 of 50 Most-Frequently Cited Articles (03-2005 to 04-2008). Rankings based on citations to articles on this journal site from articles in High Wire-hosted journals ( Stanford University)
Weber, I. (2002). Reconfiguring the control and propaganda modalities: A case study of Shanghai’s television industry. Journal of Contemporary China, 11(30), 53-75.
Weber, I. (2002). Shanghai Baby: Negotiating youth self-identity in urban China. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 8(2), 347-368.
Weber, I., & Evans, V. (2002). Constructing the meaning of digital television in Britain, the United States and Australia. New Media & Society, 4, 435-456.
Top 10 downloaded articles for the year 2003 from New Media & Society online site (Ranking 9).
Weber, I. (2002). Communicating styles: Balancing specificity and diffuseness in developing China’s Internet regulations. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 23(3), 307-321.
Weber, I. (2001). Shanghai youth’s strategic mobilization of individualistic values: Constructing cultural identity in the age of spiritual civilization. Intercultural Communication Studies, X(2), 23-46.
Weber, I. (2000, May). Challenges facing China’s television advertising industry in the age of spiritual civilisation. International Journal of Advertising, 19, 259-281.
Kim, H.S., Hearn, G., Hatcher, C., & Weber, I. (1999). On-line communication between Australians and Koreans: Learning to manage differences that matter. World Communication Journal, 28(4), 49-68.
Reprinted in Jandt, J.E. (2003) (Ed.). Intercultural Communication: A Global Reader (pp. 143-159). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Weber, I. (1995, August). The moral market: Social vision and corporate strategy in Murdoch’s rhetoric. Media Information Australia, 77, 45-53.
Published Book Chapters
Weber, I., Tan, H.Y., & Law, L.S. (2008, in press). “Triumph over adversity”: Singapore mobilizes Confucian ethic to combat SARS. In J.H. Powers & E. Cheung (Eds.). SARS, Communication and Government. London, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamin Publishing Company.
Lu, J., & Weber, I. (2008, in press). Drawing the line: A cross-cultural communication study of EU-China Liaoning Integrated Environmental Programme (LIEP). In S. Kulich, M. Prosser, L. Zhang, C. Chi, & R. Zhang (Eds.), Intercultural Perspectives on International Values Studies.
Weber, I. (2008).Youth and online morality: Negotiating social differentiation and civic engagement in China. In U. Rodrigues and B. Small (Eds.), Youth, Media and Culture in the Asia Pacific Region. London: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Weber, I. (2007). Assessing weblogs as education portals. In A. Tatnall (Ed.). Encyclopaedia of Portal Technologies and Applications (pp.58-64) . Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference.
Weber, I., & Lim, T.K.E. (2006). Selling Singapore’s e-lifestyle initiative to late adopters. In S. Marshall, W. Taylor and X. Yu (Eds.). Encyclopaedia for Regional Development of Information Communication Technologies (pp. 635-639). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference.
Weber, I., & Lu, J. (2006). SARS, youth and online civic participation in China. In T.J.M. Holden and Timothy J. Scrase (Eds.). Medi@sia: Global Media/tion in and out of Context (pp. 82-104). London: Routledge.
McKenzie, R. (contributing authors I. Weber & N. Dajani). (2006). China’s media system. Comparing Media from Around the World (pp. 58-62, 106-109, 131-133, 165-170, 225-232, 284-290, 320, 346-349). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Weber, I., Soong, B.H., & Yow, K.C. (2005). Tuning into students’ mobile learning needs: A Singapore interactive initiative. In A. Kukulska-Hulme and J. Traxler (Eds.). Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and Trainers (pp. 150-156). Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Weber, I. (2005). Risky business: Rupert Murdoch and BSkyB’s Architecture of Accountability. In R. Picard (Ed.). Corporate Governance of MediaCompanies (pp.147-163). Sweden: Jonkoping International Business School.
Weber, I. (2003). Happy Zhejiang garment manufacturer. In P. Lambe and E. Tan (Eds). Challenges of Doing Business in China: Case Studies for Singapore SMEs (pp. 7-14). Singapore: Singapore Institute of Management (SIM).
Weber, I. (1999). Rethinking the role of social marketing in developing Asia’s television industry: A rhetorical analysis of Rupert Murdoch’s vision for social change. In D.K. Demers and K. Viswanath (Eds.). Mass Media, Social Control, Social Change: A Macrosocial Perspective (pp. 281-304). Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press.
Other Publications
Textbook
Weber, I. (2004). Health-e-Communication: Interpersonal and information management strategies for working professionals. Brisbane, Australia: HyperPublishing (pp. ii-165).
Conference Proceedings
Weber, I. (1995). Why can’t you sell communication and information technologies like you sell brotherhood and rational thinking: a new approach to marketing satellite technology in Asia. Proceedings of the Marketing Educators and Researchers International (pp. 323-331). Australia: Griffith University.
Sogar, D.H., & Weber, I. (Eds.). (1995). Proceedings of the Marketing Educators and Researchers International Conference. Gold Coast, Australia: Griffith University.
Academic Newsletter
Weber, I., & Lu, J. (2003, March). Handing over China’s Internet to the corporations. International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter, 33, 9.
Book Review
Review of Gary D. Rawnsley and Ming Yeh T. Rawnsley, Political Communications in Greater China, in Asian Journal of Communication, 14(2), 229-230.
Paper Presentations at Professional Conferences
Weber, I. (2008, April). Regulating broadcasters in China, Broadcast Education Association BEA2008 , Las Vegas, USA.
Lu, J., & Weber, I. (2007, April). State, power and mobile communication: a case study of China. Living the Information Society International Conference, Manila, Philippines.
Weber, I. (2007, April). Commodifying digital television in China: a socio-linguistic analysis of media discourse, technology deployment and control. Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, Hangzhou, China.
Weber, I. (2006, December). Youth and online morality: can China’s citizenry be trusted with freedom of speech? Keynote presentation at the Youth, Media and Culture in the Asia Pacific Region Symposium, Melbourne, Australia.
Weber, I.(2006, November). Mapping nanotechnology: a socio-linguistic analysis of the New York Times coverage (1985-2004). Presented at the National Communication Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas.
Weber, I. (2006, August). Mapping the Contours of China’s Digital Television Deployment: A Socio-linguistic Analysis. To be presented at the Asia Communication and Media Forum 2006, Beijing, China.
Lu, J. & Weber, I. (2006, June). China’s mobile telephony: The good, the bad and the profitable. Presented at the 56 th International Communication Association Pre-conference After the Mobile Phone? Social Changes and the Development of Mobile Communication, Germany.
Weber, I.(2005, November). New media and China-US Relations. Presented at the China-US Relations Conference: Trade, Diplomacy and Research, Beijing, China.
Weber, I. & Lu, J.(2005, August).SARS , youth and online civic participation in China. Presented at the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS4). Shanghai, China.
Weber, I. (2005, July). “Triumph over adversity”: Singapore mobilizes Confucian ethic to combat SARS. Presented at theInternational Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Taipei, Taiwan.
Weber, I. (2005, May). Internet and self-regulation in China: The cultural logic of controlled commodification. Presented at the 55 th International Communication Association ( ICA) Conference. New York , NY.
Weber, I. (2004, October). Risky Business: Rupert Murdoch and BSkyB’s Architecture of Accountability. Presented at the Corporate Governance of Media Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
Weber, I. (2004, January). “Three Represents” and China’s youth: Using the Internet to manage social change. Presented at the Joint International Conference on Chinese Communication , Shanghai, China.
Weber, I. (2003, December). Shaping the meaning of digital television in China: A model of diffusion. Presented at the Asia Media and Communication Forum, Beijing, China.
Weber, I. (2003, December). Digitizing the dragon: Television, convergence and authoritarian control. Presented at the Digital News, Social Change and Globalization Conference, SAR Hong Kong.
Weber, I. (2003, December). Civic participation in China: Online news, interactivity and authoritarian control. Presented at the Digital News, Social Change and Globalization Conference, SAR Hong Kong.
Kluver, R. & Weber, I. (2003, October). Patriotism and the limits of globalization: Renegotiating citizenship in Singapore. Presented at the Global Fusion 2003 Conference, Austin, Texas.
Weber, I. (2003, May). Youth.com(munism): interactivity, control, resistance . Presented at the 53 rd International Communication Association ( ICA) Conference, San Diego, CA.
Weber, I. (2002). Localising the global: Successful strategies for selling television programs to China. Presented at the Tamking University 2002 International Communication Convention, Taipei, Taiwan.
Weber, I. (2002, November). Shanghai Baby: Negotiating youth self-identity in urban China. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA.
Weber, I. & Lim, T.K. (2002, October). Living Singapore’s e-lifestyle: Communicating IT to late adopters. Presented at the NECB2002 eNLIGHTING: SUCCESSFUL e-BUSINESS MODEL Conference , Bangkok, Thailand.
Lim, T.K. & Weber, I. (2002, October). E-learning: in search of a “Total Learning Experience” (TLE). Presented at the 2002 E-Learn Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Weber, I. (2002, October). Communicating styles: Balancing specificity and diffuseness in developing China’s Internet regulations. Presented at the Association of Internet Researchers International Conference AoIR 3.0, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Weber, I. (2002, July). No sex, no violence, no news, we’re Chinese: cultural flows across imaginary borders. Presented at the 8 th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Communication, SAR Hong Kong.
Weber, I. (2001, May). China’s Internet: “spiritual opium” or economic freedom? Presented at the Shaping the Network Society Conference, Seattle, WA.
Weber, I. (1999, July). Constructing identity in the age of spiritual civilization: Shanghai youth’s strategic mobilization of individualistic values. Presented at the 7 th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Communication Conference, Louisville, KY.
Hee-Soo K, Hearn, G., Hatcher, C., &. Weber, I. (1999, July). On-line communication between Australians and Koreans: Culture confronts technology. Presented at the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Weber, I. (1995). Why can’t you sell communication and information technologies like you sell brotherhood and rational thinking: a new approach to marketing of satellite technology in Asia. Presented at the International Marketing Educators and Researchers Conference, Gold Coast, Australia.
Keynote Speeches, Invited Presentations and Lectures
Weber, I. (2006, November). Youth and online morality: Can China’s citizenry be trusted with freedom of speech? To be presented as a keynote speech at the Youth, Media & Culture in the Asia Pacific Region Symposium, Melbourne, Australia.
Weber, I. & Ahmad, I. (2006, April). Measuring online learner behaviors in education portals. Presented at the Education, Media and Technology Symposium (IIE2), Doha, Qatar.
Weber, I. (2003, November). Critical literacy in digital lives: Youth, education and cultural identity. Presented at the ASEAN Values and their Relevance to the Modern World Seminar, Singapore .
HONORS, AWARDS and ACHIEVEMENTS
2007 International Excellence Award, Texas A&M University
Outstanding Panhellenic Professor, Delta Zeta Sorority, 2006
Nominee, John J. Koldus Faculty and Staff Achievement Award, Texas A&M University, 2006
Australian Postgraduate Award, 1995-1998, $45,000
Deans Award for Excellence, Graduate Diploma Further Education & Training, 1996
Deans Award for Excellence, Master of Business, 1995
Queensland University of Technology Postgraduate Research Award, 1994, $12,000
Gold Coast Quills Award – “Excellence in Feature Reporting”, 1991
Teaching
Global Media, New Media and Civil Society, Chinese Communication and International Relations, Intercultural Communication |
