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 THIRD HONG KONG WEB SYMPOSIUM 7-10 May 1997 The University of Hong Kong |
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 Professor Paul Bacsich |
Paul's keynote address is entitled "Re-engineering the campus with Web & related technology". It will survey recent activities and trends in WWW-based distance education in Europe, drawing on his experience with the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University, with his recent work at Sheffield Hallam University. He will also look back at some of the European projects he was involved with over the last 15 years to assess what progress has been made and what is possible and realistic for the future. | |
 Mr. John December |
John's keynote address is entitled "The potential and reality of World Wide Web publishing". Publishing on the World Wide Web has been anticipated as an exciting possibility, offering unlimited, global distribution combined with the chance to integrate networked hypertext and multimedia in the expression of ideas. But the reality of Web publishing in the past seven years up to today is one of mixed results. Academic journals use the Web for distribution, yet still face issues of development costs and prestige. Commercial Web publications rarely turn a profit and at the same time face an increasingly congested Web information space. John will discuss how the use of technology alone isn't the hallmark of successful Web publishing. Instead, what has seemed like a dream--easier and global distribution of publications--really is part of the much older and much more challenging story of human social practice. | |
 Mr. Erwin Huang |
Erwin's keynote address is entitled "Chinese Web publishing: a look into the future" which will cover some of the possibilities and pitfalls of Chinese Web Publishing. This new form of Chinese publishing provides possibilities to reach a large part of the world's population, crossing geographical and political boundaries. As China's telecom infrastructure grows, on-line publishing provides an opportunity for Chinese all over the world to reach one another, giving a new meaning to the term "Chinese Community". This globalization and localization process has created new opportunities for some and difficulties for many; yet issues around its development process has largely remained undocumented and little understood. Erwin will explore the vision and observations of future Chinese Web developments and cover new technologies on the Server and Client levels, editorial and marketing trends of Chinese Web sites development, new interactivities on some Web sites, cross media products and regional developments issues. | |
 Mr. Stephen Selby |
Stephen's keynote address is entitled "Protecting creativity in the 21st Century." Drawing on his recent experience of Hong Kong as a battleground for conflicting interests in intellectual property, Stephen will explore the contradiction between consumers' and educators' proprietary interest in the shrinking public domain, and the need to carve slices out of it to keep creators fed and watered. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) sponsored a new Treaty on Copyright in the digital agenda in December 1996. Hong Kong's new copyright law seeks to bring the most recent principles into play in Hong Kong. What tools does this provide for the WEB publisher, and what new pitfalls will appear? Taking the new Copyright Treaty as a case study, Stephen will examine the trends for intellectual property protection in the 21st Century. | |
 Professor Stephen Wilson |
Stephen's keynote address is entitled " Exploring the frontiers of media design on the Web". Much of the Web's excitement derives from its integration of text, image, sound, and video. The Web offers an unprecedented new media environment that is interactive, hyperlinked, and internationally distributed. Enormous design challenges and opportunities confront creators of Web sites. Just as the Web has expanded our ideas of publishing, it also requires Web authors to adopt an "expanded" design perspective. Making eye candy is not enough. This address will provide a framework for thinking about Web design that includes: visual and media aesthetics; information design; attention to computer-human interface issues; awareness of and exploitation of new technologies; and sensitivity to the cultural context of Web audiences. It will offer insights about likely future trends and show how to integrate design, experimental art, and research. It will show strategies of keeping up with the whirwinds of change that characterize the Web | |
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Enquiries regarding the Symposium should be addressed to acastro@hkucc.hku.hk