Content tagged "authoritarianism"
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Posted by Huan Sun S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2013
Topics: authoritarianism, China, media, New Rural Reconstruction, New Workers Art Group, Wukan ProtestThe Hidden Activism: Media Practices and the Media Opportunity in Chinese Politics of Resistance
“My thesis discusses the hidden and non-adversarial nature of resistance in authoritarian countries through the perspectives of media practices and media opportunity structure.”
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Posted by Sophie Ormerod S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2002
Topics: authoritarianism, control, cyber-libertarians, determinism, Europe, Internet, liberalization, politics, SingaporeThe Medium Still Isn’t the Message: Revisiting the Link Between Communication Technologies and Political Liberalization
Questioning the claims presently being made on behalf of the Internet as a unidirectional causal agent in socio-political liberalisation.