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China Media Centre 2015 Winter Seminar–A JOURNEY TO THE WEST

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China Media Centre 2015 Winter Seminar

A JOURNEY TO THE WEST

Speaker: Mr Shirong Chen

Date: Wednesday 14th January 2015

Time: 1:30pm – 3:30 pm

Venue: A7.1, Harrow Campus

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

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A visiting scholar from China embarked on a year-long personal journey to England to learn new education technologies that he intended to take back with him. He ended up working for more than a decade as a journalist/editor for the BBC, one of the biggest and order cheap viagra super active usa most influential media organisations in the world. Now he has turned his energy to China Report, a news magazine he publishes in conjunction with China News Service, one of the two main news agencies in China. The magazine is dedicated to promoting understanding between China and Western Europe. Shirong Chen’s personal journey takes place against the backdrop of a changing and increasingly powerful China, He started his journey almost like Wukong in the legendary Story of the Monkey, overcoming many tests and challenges to get to China’s west for the original Buddhist Sutras. But the journey has turned out to be a lasting quest for journalistic wisdom and skills to stay ahead of the new media wave.

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China Media Centre 2014 Winter Seminar

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SOCIAL MEDIA AND CHINA IN THE PAST DECADE

Speaker: Dr David Feng

Date: Wednesday, 05 November 2014

Time: 14:00 – 16:00

Venue: A6.08, Harrow Campus

Chair:Dr Paul Dwyer

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D Feng photoThis talk covers China’s social media development over the past decade in general, and in the past few years in particular.  Dr Feng has long been actively involved with social media in China: his presentation combines personal experience and the reasons behind the phenomenon with a more inter-disciplinary approach. The talk examines the blogging community in China as well as the use of Twitter, Facebook, WeChat and Weibo there and order clomid without prescription the attitudes to social media of the administrations of Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping.  It also covers key “social mediated” events including the CCTV headquarters fire, the Wenzhou high-speed rail crash and the rise and fall of “big Vs” (prominent social media users with verified accounts). It further discusses what might be next for social media in a country in which the idea of the government being mere keystrokes away was alien just a few years ago.

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CMC International Conference on China’s Media Go Global held at Tsinghua University

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The annual CMC academic conference “China’s Media Go Global” was held in September 2014 at Tsinghua University. Co-sponsors were School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University; Tsinghua-Epstein Centre for Global Media and Communication and the Chinese Association of Global Communication. Over 60 scholars and experts from different continents gathered to discuss China’s media internationalising. Keynote speakers included Professor Daya Thussu (India Media Centre, University of Westminster), Professor Anne-Marie Brady (University of Canterbury), Qu Yingpu (China Daily), Chen Lidong (CCTV) and Yan Chengsheng (International Cooperation Department of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and buy sale zithromax canada Television of the People’s Republic of China). The conference was managed by Alja Kranjec.

A selection of the papers for publication as a special issue of an international, peer reviewed journal or book will be published in 2015.

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CHINA’S MEDIA GO GLOBAL

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Date: 2-3 September 2014
Time: 9.00am – 6pm
Location: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

China is dramatically increasing its media presence in the world. CCTV will establish its third Media Hub, after Africa and the USA, in Europe. Xinhua has expanded its operations and has launched its own 24-hour television news. The quality and range of publications, radio and television channels and online information has developed rapidly in several languages. Chinese media are supplying facilities and training to the media of many other countries, even as they also soak up the experience and knowledge of the most advanced media industries. Not only national media but provincial media are entering the world’s markets. Read more →

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CALL FOR PAPERS: China’s Media Go Global, 2-3 September, 2014

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China Media Centre to announce the upcoming international conference.

 

Topic: China’s Media Go Global

Date: 2-3 September, 2014.

Venue: Tsinghua University School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing, China

 

China is dramatically increasing its media presence in the world. Within the next few months CCTV will establish in Europe its third Media Hub, after Africa and the USA. Xinhua has expanded its operations and includes 24 hour television news. The quality and range of publications, radio and television channels and online information has developed rapidly in several languages. Chinese media are supplying facilities and training to the media of many other countries, even as they also soak up the experience and knowledge of the most advanced media industries. Not only national media but provincial media are entering the world’s markets.

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