Content tagged "China"
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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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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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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.”
