Chinese media Does Authoritarian Government Respond to the Chinese People? April 30, 2015 0 Written by Ma Liang. Authoritarian regimes are usually characterized as being less responsive to its citizens in comparison to democratic governments. The use of Internet and other cutting-edge…
China Chat and Mouse: The Online Game of Indirect Deliberation April 28, 2015 0 Written by Nele Noesselt. Following the so-called Twitter and Facebook ‘revolutions’ of the Arab Spring, digital communication technologies and social media have, once again, been hyped…
China Beyond censorship—The new ecology of the Chinese internet April 27, 2015 0 Written by Jun Fu. The International Communication Association recently gave its Outstanding Article Award of 2015 to an article addressing the question “Does the Great Firewall…
China Media, Celebrity and Philanthropy in China: Doing Good or Doing Nothing? April 2, 2015 2 Written by Jonathan Hassid and Elaine Jeffreys. Academic discussion of celebrity-led philanthropy has blossomed in recent years. Supporters argue that celebrity involvement with charities raises…
Chinese media Networked China: New forms of civic engagement November 12, 2014 0 Written by Stephen D. Reese. The communication landscape in China includes many contradictions, with a government bent on control of that communication while promoting the…
Taiwan Taiwan’s Digital Democracy October 13, 2014 0 Written by Ben Goren. The introduction of internet capable portable devices such as laptops and early smart phones in Taiwan in the early 2000s; the…
Taiwan A Very Remarkable Democracy May 21, 2014 0 Written by Ben Goren. Taiwan’s democracy has been called many things. First it was a ‘budding’ phenomena erupting at the end of the Cold War,…
Hong Kong Framing the Radicals: Panic on Canton Road (I) February 26, 2014 2 Written by Daniel Garrett. The framing by Hong Kong (HK) mainstream media (MSM), Chinese state media, and the Special Administrative Region (SAR) and Chinese governments…
Culture and Society China’s global media: Mixed signals February 18, 2014 0 Written by Vivien Marsh. If my former BBC boss Richard Sambrook was right to question the survival of 24-hour rolling television news in the social…
Culture and Society Online counter-hegemonic resistance in China’s Hong Kong November 25, 2013 3 Written by Daniel Garrett. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is well known as a “City of Protests” but fewer are aware that Hongkongers’…
