Gabriele Balbi is Associate Professor of Media Studies and Director of the China Media Observatory at USI Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland. His research focuses on media history, and he has published several books and journal articles on these topics. His most recent book is A History of Digital Media. An Intermedia and Global Perspective (co-authored with Paolo Magaudda, 2018).Fei Jiang is Director of the Center for Intercultural Communication Studies at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. His research interests focus on new media and intercultural communication studies and, on these topics, he has published several articles, book chapters and four books. His most recent publication is Global Communication Ecology (co-authored with Gao Wei, 2018).Giuseppe Richeri is Honorary President of the China Media Observatory and Emeritus Professor at the Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland. His research interests focus on the political economy of communication at the intersection with media management, media and communication history and cultural studies. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and several books on these topics.