A5103277511- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Media Studies and Communication
- Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
- Globalization and Cultural Identity
- Chinese history and philosophy
- Political theory and Gramsci
- Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Social Media and Politics
- Asian Culture and Media Studies
- International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Critical Theory and Philosophy
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Digital Games and Media
- Asian Industrial and Economic Development
- ICT Impact and Policies
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations
- Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
- Philosophy, History, and Historiography
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Education, Sociology, Communication Studies
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Law, Rights, and Freedoms
- Public Policy and Administration Research
Tsinghua University
2018-2024
Royal Society of Canada
2024
Simon Fraser University
2001-2021
Communication University of China
2010-2014
University of California, San Diego
2000-2001
This paper examines the trajectory of Chinese Communist party-controlled press commercialization in China and discusses active role state incorporating market-based forms practices into existing structure. Although market-oriented developments past 2 decades have created a dynamic mass appeal sector catering to urban middle class, it has also inadvertently led fragmented decentralized structure that undermined core party organs their capital accumulation. Consequently, engineered market...
A textual analysis of an archive US newspaper articles published during the first two weeks Gulf War reveals that three interpretative news frames—the Enemy Within, Marginal Oddity and Legitimate Controversy—dominated press coverage antiwar protest. Salient characteristics (themes, metaphors, argumentation strategies, tone, syntactical lexical choices) each frame are discussed, particularly as they were manifested in opinion/editorial commentary. The differential treatment different voices...
This article discusses the role of media and communications in contributing to social progress, as elaborated a landmark international project – International Panel on Social Progress. First, it analyses how digital platforms have contributed global inequality by examining access infrastructure across world regions. Second, looks at governance different mechanisms corporatized control over platforms, algorithms content. Third, examines democratization is key element struggle for justice. It...
Chapter 1 Foreword 2 Acknowledgments 3 Media Globalization, Democratization: Challenges, Issues, and Paradoxes Part 4 I: Globalization Democratic Deficits: National Regional Audits 5 Civil Society as Contested Concept: Political Transformation in Eastern Central Europe 6 Who Wants Democracy Does It Deliver Food? Communication Power a Globally Integrated China 7 Futures: Indian at the Crossroads 8 Changing Cultures under Globalism Latin America 9 'Globalizing' Africa: What Prospects for...
From establishing Confucius Institutes all over the world to mounting an advertising blitz in New York's Times Square, Chinese state's multifaceted endeavour strengthen its "soft power" has been highly visible and subject of much recent political, journalistic, scholarly attention. This paper locates quest within historical geopolitical contexts explores profound contradictions underpinning political economy cultural politics. While this campaign's state, industry, professional moral...
Although the Chinese state has allowed US-based transnational corporations to play an instrumental role in China's information technology (IT)-led development strategy, a dominant segment of political and technological leadership always been wary negative political, economic cultural implications continued American domination digital developments. efforts at asserting greater control over rapidly evolving networked communication infrastructure have multifaceted. Significantly, past few years...
China's frenetic pace of economic development in recent decades has come with significant environmental costs. Confronted by this dire situation, the Chinese government proposed concept ecological civilization as both an aspirational goal for sustainability and a guide to policymaking. Despite concept's current centrality discourse, little is known about how it covered media outlets outside China. In article, we address research gap analyzing framing English-language Our qualitative...
AbstractChina's accession to the World Trade Organisation has significantly accelerated country's integration with global capitalism through its bureaucratically-controlled and market-driven communication industries. The specific terms conditions of this meant that a newly reconstituted power bloc — consisting bureaucratic capitalists reformed Party state, transnational corporate capital, an emerging urban middle class, whose members are favoured consumers both domestic capital assumed...
From Tahrir Square to Wall Street, from Athens Montreal, dreams of emancipation are mobilizing a new wave revolts all over the world. Simultaneously forces repression being unleashed everywhere impose "new mechanisms social control" with aim establishing conditions for achieving surplus value" in aftermath protracted capitalist economic crisis.1 Some anticipated Chinese popular uprising following Arab Spring. Instead, since spring 2012 world has seen sensational drama elite struggle...
Wonders whether, owing to severely restricted access, China’s government policy towards digital communications will remain in a constant state of flux – or it gain economic benefits without social penalty? Concludes that China has link the forces change channel and deflect domestic resistance.