Xiang Ren

The University of Sydney · Department of Media and Communication

Purpose – The internet is transforming possibilities for creative interaction, experimentation and cultural consumption in China and raising important questions about the role that “publishers” might play in an open and networked digital world. The purpose of this paper is to consider the role that copyright is playing in the growth of a publishing...

Purpose: This paper aims to understand individual academics’ perception, attitudes, and participation in open access publishing and open scholarship and revisit some principles and designs of openness in academic publishing from the perspective of creative end-users, which helps to increase the sustainability and efficiency of open models. Design/...

This article understands the history of copyright and media in China as co-evolution between two conflicting paradigms. One builds on the Confucian and Communist systems, where cultural production and knowledge creation are collective and commons-based, while the other is similar to the western copyright practices characterized by the legal protect...

This chapter on China’s history of policy development around the creative industries shows that China now takes a sophisticated and strongly contemporised view of the potential of both cultural heritage and convergent digital ‘createch’. The chapter is clear about the significance of the adoption, in China’s 13th Five Year Plan (1996–2020), of the...

This study investigates some of the previously unrecognized reading, writing and sharing trends emerging across Asian-born popular digital webtoon and webnovel platforms. These particular sectors of the creative industries are rapidly becoming energizing vehicles for transmedia intellectual property (IP) – referring to a network of interconnected m...

While digital entertainment like short video and online fiction provides Chinese teenagers with opportunities to freely create and access digital content, as well as interacting with social networks to express their identities, feelings, voices, and concerns, teenagers are also exposed to harmful and unsuitable content and various threats. Using tw...

This article understands the history of copyright and media in China as co-evolution between two conflicting paradigms. One builds on the Confucian and Communist systems, where cultural production and knowledge creation are collective and commons-based, while the other is similar to the western copyright practices characterized by the legal protect...

<后数字时代的颠覆与融合 ——2019 年欧美数字出版评述及展望>文章以大众市场图书为主，兼顾其他出版类型，梳理2019 年欧美数字出版发展的趋势和创新特点，着重介绍2019 年欧美数字出版的产业发展态势、新商业模式特点以及业界学界的诸多思辨与讨论，并据此展望未来数字出版的创新趋势，透过数字全球化视角，分析中国在未来国际出版格局中的角色以及所面临的机遇与挑战。

Is digital publishing leading to a paradigm shift or only replicating the print publishing systems in digital garb? This appears to be a key concern of the Chinese publishing industry in the internet age. While digital publishing has tremendous disruptive potential, there is still uncertainty about the transformation and evolution of publishing in...

This chapter reviews the digital strategies of Chinese magazines and discusses the changing culture and economy of consumer magazines. It begins with an overview of the regulations and history of Chinese consumer magazine publishing, from the country's market reform to the digital disruption. The chapter outlines types of innovations adopted by Chi...

This paper reviews the evolution of Chinese academic social media in the past twenty years or so, with an analytical focus of trust and openness. It examines and compares the communicative models in scientific blog, Weibo and WeChat, and explores how academic social media co-evolve with academics’ changing demands, as well as broad social and insti...

This panel investigates how complex layers of trust and (dis)trust are surrounding and impacting on the fans, also known as ‘cultural intermediaries’, involved in the production, circulation, translation and remake of Korean and Chinese webtoon and webnovel platforms in Asia and among Asian users. Collectively, the panellists argue for a reconceptu...

This chapter looks at the changing landscape of quality assessment and certification/credentialing in open knowledge systems by a comparative study between open publishing and open education. Despite the disruptive changes driven by open publishing in scholarly communication, it is challenging to develop widely accepted methods for quality assessme...

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This paper examines the development of open knowledge in China through two case studies: the development of Chinese open access (OA) journals, and national-level OA repositories. Open access and open knowledge are emerging as a site of both grass-roots activism, and top-down intervention in the practices of scholarship and scholarly publishing in C...

学术出版正在走向数据化和智能化。这场基于大数据、新平台和人工智能的转型将改变科学传播范式和出版商业模式。面对学术传播的数字未来，无论出版巨头、创业公司、还是学术机构都在积极布局，抢占先发优势。本文聚焦于数据、算法与平台三元素的互动，从科研实验数据出版、引用数据共享、数据智能挖掘和新旧学术平台竞合等方面梳理2017年欧美学术出版的发展创新。文章结合学术出版的未来趋势及全球开放数据运动，对中国知识服务的发展提出一些思考和建议。

2017年，欧美数字出版业处于后电子书时代的转型与不确定性中，但未来趋势已初见端倪。无论是基于前沿技术的新一代数字叙事，还是数字原住民的多屏社交化阅读，无论是智能化平台与弱势出版商的竞合，还是传统出版业在数字知识环境下找回自我，都从不同层面展现了新旧出版业态的碰撞与融合。面对数字出版领域由技术驱动引发的颠覆性变局，传统出版业须重构核心价值和产业生态。

This chapter provides an evolutionary review of the design, implementation, and adoption of the Chinese e-Schoolbag (electronic schoolbag) as a mobile learning initiative and through the lens of design principles and educational innovations. At the technological level, this chapter examines the ways e-Schoolbag realises ubiquitous and flexible lear...

This review focuses on the competition, collaboration, and co-evolution between commercial publishing and open knowledge movement and discusses how commercial publishers could survive and innovate in the open knowledge environments. 近年来，欧美科技图书出版面临来自开放知识浪潮的、日益强烈的冲击。文章聚焦于科技图书出版与开放知识浪潮之间的对立与融合，梳理2016 年欧美学术专著、大中专教材和专业图书出版领域的发展动态，分析开放运动对商业化出版的挑战，介绍最新的开...

s digital publishing leading to a paradigm shift or only replicating the print publishing systems in digital garb? This appears to be a key concern of the Chinese publishing industry in the Internet age. In the age of eBooks, dynamics such as self-publishing, digital distribution, and the Internet economy have the potential to challenge the establi...

Among China’s cultural and creative industries digital publishing has the potential to change the boundaries that have previously constrained reading publics in China. Most of these boundaries are administrative, intended to channel the Chinese reading public into state approved formats and genres. Digital publishing, and more recently mobile Inter...

This paper reviews the educational value and innovative uses of open and interactive publishing (OIP) in learning design. OIP is defined in its broadest sense including all the emerging practices brought about by using open approaches and networked technologies to publish and engage with content. It explores two aspects of educational values and us...

This chapter looks at the changing landscape of quality assessment and certification/credentialing in the open knowledge systems by a comparative study between open publishing and open education. Despite the disruptive changes driven by open publishing in scholarly communication, it is challenging to develop widely accepted methods for quality asse...

The study of Chinese media is a field that is growing and evolving at an exponential rate. Not only are the Chinese media a fascinating subject for analysis in their own right, but they also offer scholars and students a window to observe multi-directional flows of information, culture and communications within the contexts of globalization and reg...

Networked digital technologies and Open Access (OA) are transforming the processes and institutions of research, knowledge creation and dissemination globally: enabling new forms of collaboration, allowing researchers to be seen and heard in new ways and reshaping relationships between stakeholders across the global academic publishing system. This...

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This paper reviews the changing landscape of the publishing industry, which is being reshaped by dynamics of user co-creation, social networking and open licencing. It briefly touches on possible research themes associated with disruptive changes in the world’s oldest media/creative industry, particularly under the umbrella of “Cultural Science”. T...

A growing number of online journals and academic platforms are adopting light peer review or 'publish then filter' models of scholarly communication. These approaches have the advantage of enabling instant exchanges of knowledge between academics and are part of a wider search for alternatives to traditional peer review and certification processes...

This concise paper reviews the research and practice of open innovations in scholarly publishing, facilitated by the dynamics of open access, Web 2.0, and social media. Compared with traditional publisher-mediated system, open publishing not only provides a vast amount of openly accessible content, but also introduces a new communication system cha...