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This book explores the rapidly evolving conditions of political
communication in China. It examines how ideology and professional
roles affect both scholarly and journalistic understanding of
China. The book offers insights into Chinese journalism and
Sino-American relations. .
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Communication, Public Opinion, and Globalization in Urban China (Hardcover, New)
Francis L.F. Lee, Chin-Chuan Lee, Mike Z. Yao, Tsan-Kuo Chang, Fen Jennifer Lin, …
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As China is increasingly integrated into the processes of economic,
political, social, and cultural globalization, important questions
arise about how Chinese people perceive and evaluate such
processes. At the same time, international communication scholars
have long been interested in how local, national, and transnational
media communications shape people's attitudes and values. Combining
these two concerns, this book examines a range of questions
pertinent to public opinion toward globalization in urban China: To
what degree are the urban residents in China exposed to the
influences from the outside world? How many transnational social
connections does a typical urban Chinese citizen have? How often do
they consume foreign media? To what extent are they aware of the
notion of globalization, and what do they think about it? Do they
believe that globalization is beneficial to China, to the city
where they live, and to them personally? How do people's social
connections and communication activities shape their views toward
globalization and the outside world? This book tackles these and
other questions systematically by analyzing a four-city comparative
survey of urban Chinese residents, demonstrating the complexities
of public opinion in China. Media consumption does relate, though
by no means straightforwardly, to people's attitudes and beliefs,
and this book provides much needed information and insights about
Chinese public opinion on globalization. It also develops fresh
conceptual and empirical insights on issues such as public opinion
toward US-China relations, Chinese people's nationalistic
sentiments, and approaches to analyze attitudes toward
globalization.
As China is increasingly integrated into the processes of economic,
political, social, and cultural globalization, important questions
arise about how Chinese people perceive and evaluate such
processes. At the same time, international communication scholars
have long been interested in how local, national, and transnational
media communications shape people's attitudes and values. Combining
these two concerns, this book examines a range of questions
pertinent to public opinion toward globalization in urban China: To
what degree are the urban residents in China exposed to the
influences from the outside world? How many transnational social
connections does a typical urban Chinese citizen have? How often do
they consume foreign media? To what extent are they aware of the
notion of globalization, and what do they think about it? Do they
believe that globalization is beneficial to China, to the city
where they live, and to them personally? How do people's social
connections and communication activities shape their views toward
globalization and the outside world? This book tackles these and
other questions systematically by analyzing a four-city comparative
survey of urban Chinese residents, demonstrating the complexities
of public opinion in China. Media consumption does relate, though
by no means straightforwardly, to people's attitudes and beliefs,
and this book provides much needed information and insights about
Chinese public opinion on globalization. It also develops fresh
conceptual and empirical insights on issues such as public opinion
toward US-China relations, Chinese people's nationalistic
sentiments, and approaches to analyze attitudes toward
globalization.
In this richly textured volume, leading scholars and journalists
engage in a unique dialogue in their exploration of the rapidly
evolving conditions of political communication in China. The
contributors begin by considering the bureaucratization of media
control within the context of economic reform, addressing such
questions as: How were the media used and abused to uphold,
undermine, and save the regime's legitimacy? How were they decoded
in popular resistance, especially in the age of new technology? How
does Communist control compare to Nationalist control-both on the
mainland prior to 1949 and on Taiwan afterward? What is the
relevance of the Taiwan experience to understanding changes in
China's media? The contributors go on to examine how ideology, the
available body of knowledge, and professional roles affect both
scholarly and journalistic understanding of China. They strive to
answer a second set of questions: How has the cold war shaped the
picture Westerners have constructed of China? What impact do the
U.S. media have on Chinese politics, and what sort of new
challenges does the U.S. journalist face in China? In light of the
checkered history of "objective" reporting in China, how do Hong
Kong journalists attempt to protect press freedom during the
political transition? Bringing together a wide-ranging group of
experts, including media scholars, historians, political
scientists, journalists, and policymakers, this book is both
path-breaking and thought-provoking. Offering fresh insights into
Chinese journalism and Sino-American relations, this volume will be
important reading for students, scholars, and the general reader.
Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international
collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media
that are challenging the power concentration in large media
corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a
broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in
Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South
Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include
independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web
discussion forums, feminist film, political journalism and social
networks, indigenous communication, and church-sponsored media.
This important book will help shape debates on the media's role in
current global struggles, such as the anti-globalization movement.
Focusing on the global media coverage of Hong Kong's transfer from
Britain to China, Global Media Spectacle explores how the world
media plans, operates, competes, and produces a historical record
during significant global events. The authors interviewed
seventy-six print and television reporters from the United States,
Britain, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan,
Australia, Canada, and Japan to delve into the revealing world of
writing first drafts of history from reporters' vantage points.
Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international
collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media
that are challenging the power concentration in large media
corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a
broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in
Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South
Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include
independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web
discussion forums, feminist film, political journalism and social
networks, indigenous communication, and church-sponsored media.
This important book will help shape debates on the media's role in
current global struggles, such as the anti-globalization movement.
International communication as a field of inquiry is, in fact, not
very "internationalized." Rather, it has been taken as a conceptual
extension or empirical application of U.S. communication, and much
of the world outside the West has been socialized to adopt
truncated versions of Pax Americana's notion of international
communication. At stake is the "subject position" of academic and
cultural inquirers: Who gets to ask what kind of questions? It is
important to note that the quest to establish universally valid
"laws" of human society with little regard for cultural values and
variations seems to be running out of steam. Many lines of
intellectual development are reckoning with the important
dimensions of empathetic understanding and subjective
consciousness. In Internationalizing "International Communication",
Lee and others argue that we must reject both America-writ-large
views of the world and self-defeating mirror images that reject
anything American or Western on the grounds of cultural
incompatibility or even cultural superiority. The point of
departure for internationalizing "international communication" must
be precisely the opposite of parochialism - namely, a spirit of
cosmopolitanism. Scholars worldwide have a moral responsibility to
foster global visions and mutual understanding, which forms,
metaphorically, symphonic harmony made of cacophonic sounds.
International communication as a field of inquiry is, in fact, not
very "internationalized." Rather, it has been taken as a conceptual
extension or empirical application of U.S. communication, and much
of the world outside the West has been socialized to adopt
truncated versions of Pax Americana's notion of international
communication. At stake is the "subject position" of academic and
cultural inquirers: Who gets to ask what kind of questions? It is
important to note that the quest to establish universally valid
"laws" of human society with little regard for cultural values and
variations seems to be running out of steam. Many lines of
intellectual development are reckoning with the important
dimensions of empathetic understanding and subjective
consciousness. In Internationalizing "International Communication",
Lee and others argue that we must reject both America-writ-large
views of the world and self-defeating mirror images that reject
anything American or Western on the grounds of cultural
incompatibility or even cultural superiority. The point of
departure for internationalizing "international communication" must
be precisely the opposite of parochialism - namely, a spirit of
cosmopolitanism. Scholars worldwide have a moral responsibility to
foster global visions and mutual understanding, which forms,
metaphorically, symphonic harmony made of cacophonic sounds.
Focusing on the global media coverage of Hong Kong's transfer from
Britain to China, Global Media Spectacle explores how the world
media plans, operates, competes, and produces a historical record
during significant global events. The authors interviewed
seventy-six print and television reporters from the United States,
Britain, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan,
Australia, Canada, and Japan to delve into the revealing world of
writing first drafts of history from reporters' vantage points.
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