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This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative
media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data
and first hand collected materials to examine how political
openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in
Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan’s
alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had
on its socio-political transformation, and what implications
Taiwan’s case of alternative media has for other societies,
especially for other Asian societies. This book would be a good
reading for intellectuals, media professionals, government
analysts, and the general public as well, who are interested in
this topic.
Are the values of students and their teachers threatened each time
they enter the unchartered waters of the Internet's popular culture
content? The Internet has indeed "come of age," and as was the case
with traditional mass media, the Internet has been increasingly
examined for its positive and negative effects, particularly on
children. What triggered the present study was a newspaper article
that described a ban on computers and the Internet imposed in
October 1999 on its followers by the Belz Hasidic, an Israeli
Ultra-Orthodox (or Haredi) religious sect. This edict was also
endorsed by 30 leading Ultra-Orthodox rabbis from various other
religious communities in Israel. Explaining that this original
prohibition against computers and the Internet was later revised to
permit computer use but continue the ban on Internet access, the
article noted, the Belz Hasidic sect determined that, "computers
have proved valuable in teaching the Bible and in running
businesses." The Internet, however, was declared "out of bounds,"
largely because the information it exposed conflicted with
Ultra-Orthodox principles rejecting modernity, popular culture and
especially "its proliferation of links to pornographic sites." This
study examines the convergence of religion, elementary education,
Internet technology, and popular culture messages within Jewish
elementary school classrooms in Israel. This research examines the
methods used by Israeli computer coordinators to manage the
convergence of Jewish (or humanistic) values with potentially
conflicting Internet generated popular culture messages. It asks
what values, whether Jewish values or human values at the core of
the Jewish educator's belief system are important to transmit to
their students? It questions what types of popular culture messages
carried by the Internet conflict with these values? More
importantly, this study surveys how educators and students evaluate
these conflicting messages in relation to the values they hold, and
the manner in which these conflicts are managed. This is an
important book for those in communication, education, Jewish
studies, and sociology of religion.
Professor Junhao Hong provides the first systematic study of
China's television, the largest and one of the most complicated
television systems in the world. China's television represents a
highly complicated communication system, a powerful ideological
machine, and a unique social manifestation. As Professor Hong
illustrates, during the past 20 years, since the country's reform,
television has experienced tremendous changes. While many studies
of media globalization attribute the phenomenon mainly to external
factors--new technologies, global capital flows, and quality
production of Western programming--Hong argues that in many
countries internal factors, such as government policy and the
evolution of society, play decisive roles for change. Based on
firsthand data and interviews with China's high-ranking officials
and policymakers this study will be of considerable value to
scholars and researchers dealing with mass media/television issues
in the developing world and with contemporary China.
China in the Era of Social Media discusses how social media is
changing the world in an unprecedented way through speed, scope,
and depth. In the last decade or so, social media in China has
witnessed the most explosive growth in the world. Being the most
populous nation in the world, it has the most social media users in
the world as well. This book examines the current situation and
unique characteristics of Chinese social media, the significance of
social media in the country's social transformation, and
particularly its influences on political change in the nation. The
main goal of this book is to explore how social media has been
affecting and thus changing China's political system, the ruling
communist ideology, and the state-run media, as well as its public
discourse and public opinions. Scholars of Asian studies, political
science, and communications will find this book particularly
interesting.
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