Content tagged "China"
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Jing Wang, professor of Chinese media and cultural studies, dies at 71
Wang, a beloved CMS/W colleague who founded the China-based media activism nonprofit NGO2.0, taught at MIT since 2001.
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Posted by Jing Wang and Song Sun
Triple play, OTT TV, and the Chinese logic of “select commercialization”
“The future of the Chinese online TV industry is increasingly organized as an ecosystem economy.”
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Posted by Jing Wang
The Other Digital China
Professor Jing Wang tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies.
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Posted by Yao Tong S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2017
Topics: China, doctor- patient relationship, medicine, narrativeNarrative as an Aid for the Doctor-Patient Relationship in China
In China, when doctor-patient tension intensifies, some news media tend to blame the doctors, using misleading narratives to create sensationalism, thereby aggravating the antagonism between the society and medical professionals.
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Posted by Yu Wang S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2015
Topics: China, Chuangke, culture, hacker, maker, media, technology, Yu WangHeike, Jike, Chuangke: Creativity in the Chinese Technology Community
Creativity in Chinese technology communities and its implication in China’s development mode shift from “Made in China” to “Created in China.”
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Posted by Jing Wang
NGO2.0 and Social Media Praxis: Activist as Researcher
The emergence of a particular brand of ICT activism that promotes the use of social media as a means of helping Chinese NGOs break out of their communication bottleneck.
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Posted by Jing Wang
From Cambridge to Shenzhen: An update of NGO2.0
Starting this past August, NGO2.0 evolved from a project originally in MIT’s New Media Action Lab into a Shenzhen-based Chinese nonprofit organization, the TuOu Center for Nonprofit Tech Development.
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Posted by Alix Morris SM, Science Writing, 2014
Topics: China, conservation, cuisine, ethics, fishing, sharksPreying on the Predator: The Shark Fin Controversy
If the demand for fins and the practice of shark finning continue at the current rate, human interference may forever change the nature of our oceans.
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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 Jing Wang and Andrew Whitacre
NGO 2.0: An Interview with Jing Wang
“We found that teaching them how to use the tools is probably less important than teaching them how to position themselves, how to brand themselves.”
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Marcella Szablewicz
Podcast: Marcella Szablewicz, “Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China”
Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of “cruel optimism”?
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Event: Thursday, February 7, 2013 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China
Marcella Szablewicz: “Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of what Lauren Berlant has called cruel optimism?”
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Event: Thursday, November 10, 2011 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cities and the Future of Entertainment
What is the likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape of such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro?
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Jing Wang
Podcast: Jing Wang, “NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media”
Professor Jing Wang discusses the genesis and implementation of a civic media project that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009.
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Event: Thursday, October 14, 2010 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media
Professor Jing Wang will discuss the genesis and implementation of a civic media project, NGO2.0, that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009.