The following list of participant is arranged according to the presentation sequence in the conference.
| No. | Name | Title/ Institution | Abstract |
| 1 | Clement Y.K. So | Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | Mapping comparative communication research: What the literature says |
| 2 | Colin Sparks | Chair Professor, Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong | Can we compare media systems? |
| 3 | Jan Servaes | Chair Professor and Head, Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | The unbearable lightness of communication research |
| 4 | Cees Hamelink | Professor of Human Rights and Public Health, Faculty of Earth and Life Science, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands | What is there to compare? |
| 5 | Akiba Cohen | Chair Professor, Department of Communication, Yezreel Valley College, Israel | Mapping comparative research on television news |
| 6 | Francis L.F. Lee | Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | Domestication and audience interests in foreign news: A cross-national analysis |
| 7 | Thomas Hanitszch | Chair and Professor of Communication, Department of Communication Science and Media Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany |
Political trust among journalists: Comparative evidence from 21 Countries |
| 8 | Lars Willnat | Professor, School of Journalism, Indiana University, U.S.A. | Social media use and political participation in nine Asian Nations |
| 9 | Weiyu Zhang | Assistant Professor, Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore | Social media and elections in authoritarian democracies: The cases of Malaysia and Singapore |
| 10 | Michael C.M. Chan | Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | Social media use and democratic engagement: A comparative study of Hong Kong and Taiwan |
| 11 | Hsuan-ting Chen | Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | Social media use and democratic engagement: A comparative study of Hong Kong and Taiwan |
| 12 | William Dutton | Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, U.S.A. | Mobile communication today and tomorrow |
| 13 | Ingrid Volkmer | Associate Professor, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Art, University of Melbourne, Australia | Parameter of public deliberation in transnational communicative terrains |
| 14 | Jack L.C. Qiu | Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | The city and the grassroots, mobile-ized: Notes and questions from Asia-Pacific |
| 15 | Myria Georgiou | Associate Professor and Deputy Head, Department of Media and Communications,The London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K. | Media and the City: Urbanizing communication, communicating the urban |
| 16 | Barry Wellman | Co-Director, NetLab Network, Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto, Canada | Changing ties in a far-flung, multidisciplinary research network: The case of GRAND |
| 17 | Georgette Wang | Honorary Chair Professor, College of Communication, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan | From collectivism to the dual-factor relational framework: Tracing the path to commensurability |
| 18 | Christine Y.H. Huang | Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | From collectivism to the dual-factor relational framework: Tracing the path to commensurability |
| 19 | Joseph M. Chan | Professor of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | Research network and comparative communication studies: Practice and reflections |