Content tagged "China"
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Narrative 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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Heike, 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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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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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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Preying 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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The 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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture
Jing Wang’s “detailed, penetrating, and up-to-date portrayal of branding and advertising in contemporary China.”
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“China’s Cyberposse”: CMS grad Jin Liwen in NYTimes Sunday Magazine
“But in China, you will see that a lot of hot topics, hot news or events actually originate from online discussions.”
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Chinese Online BBS Sphere: What BBS Has Brought to China
What have online bulletin board systems (BBS) brought to China where traditional media primarily serve as the mouthpiece of the government?
