China Media Centre
2010 Spring Seminar Series
How Ideas and Values Move between China and Western Societies
Speaker: Prof. Greg Philo
University of Glasgow, Research Director of home Glasgow Media Group
Date: Wednesday 24th March, 2010
Time: 2.00-4.00 pm
Venue: Lecture Theater 2 Â Harrow Campus
This lecture focuses on cross cultural perceptions and the processes by which ideas and values move between societies. It is based on research using focus groups, responses to questionnaires and interviews with 140 Chinese students, cultural workers and teachers. It will show how the experience of living in the UK can both alter prior expectations of the country as well as generating processes of critical reflection about the nature of both China and western societies. The participants focused on the evaluation of educational systems, the understanding of rights, law and social obligations and stromectol sans ordonnance sans danger how these affected the current status of women. Social change does not result simply from exposure to new ideas, but cross-cultural contacts and experience can be factors in the movement away from traditional structures in that they highlight alternative ways of understanding the self in relation to others and new possibilities for social life.
Professor Greg Philo
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer (1987-92);
Reader (1992-2001)
Professor (2001-present).
Research Director, Glasgow University Media Unit (Glasgow Media Group).
Research:
Research interests are in the area of the media and cultural reception. Research in the past has centered on media presentations of industrial disputes and trade unionism, the Falklands War and Northern Ireland. Current research includes ESRC and other externally-funded research projects on political advertising, images of health and cout viagra autriche illness (including mental illness), migration and ‘race’ as well as risk and food scares.
Books
Philo, G.and Miller, D. (2001) Market Killing, Harlow: Longman
Philo, G. and Berry, M. (2004) Bad News from Israel, London: Pluto Press
Berry, M. and Philo, G. (2006) Israel and Palestine – Competing Histories, London:Pluto Press
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