CMC Seminars

China Media Centre 2013 Autumn Seminar

Speaker: Michael Bristow

Date: Wednesday 20^th November

Time: 2-4pm

Venue: A1.06

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

OPEN TO ALL

The highs and cipro online pharmacy lows of reporting from China – Michael Bristow talks about his time in Beijing as a journalist for the BBC and the China Daily.

Michael Bristow has been a journalist for 20 years, starting out as a newspaper reporter and then moving into broadcasting. He’s reported from Taiwan and more recently from China. He left Beijing last year after spending five years there as a correspondent for the BBC, appearing on TV and radio and writing for the news website.

He had previously worked for the China Daily on two separate occasions totalling two years.  Michael now works in the new BBC headquarters in London as a regional editor – for East Asia and the Pacific – on the World Service.

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China Media Centre 2013 Autumn Seminar

Speaker: Dr Iginio Gagliardone

Date: Wednesday 13^th November

Time: 2-4pm

Venue: A7.01

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

OPEN TO ALL

Dr Iginio Gagliardone is British Academy Research Fellow and a member of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford. His research and great britain viagra visa publications focus on media and political change, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, and on the emergence of distinctive models of the information society around the globe. His current research projects explore the role of emerging powers such as China in promoting alternative conceptions of the Internet in Africa and how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are supporting (or challenging) processes of state and nation building in Eastern Africa. He completed his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science, investigating the relationship between development and destabilization in Ethiopia. He is also Research Associate of the Centre of Governance and viagra italien Human Rights at the University of Cambridge and of the Centre for Global Communication Studies (CGCS), Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

If you have any inquiry about CMC events, please contact Alja Kranjec at A.Kranjec@westminster.ac.uk

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China Media Centre 2013 Spring Seminar

WATCHDOG JOURNALISM SINCE 2001

新世纪以来的舆论监督

Speaker: Professor Zhan Jiang 著名新闻学者 展江教授

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

Date: Monday 18^th March 2013

Time: 2pm-4pm

Venue: A1.4, Harrow Campus, University of Westminster

 

Abstract

Professor Zhan Jiang will examine the situation of China’s watchdog journalism since 2001 by illustrating seven stages and three forms of ‘watchdog journalism’ (also known as ‘supervision by public opinion’). In this seminar Professor Zhan will take questions from the audience and shares his views on media issues.   

 

Professor Zhan Jiang is a very well-known media reformer and is frequently quoted in the Western media. He is now Professor of journalism in the Department of International Journalism and Communication, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and the former Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication, China Youth University for Political Sciences. He was a reporter and weekend edition editor of the Yangzhou Daily News from 1976 to 1985 and has written more than 50 papers on journalism and several books, including Theories of War-time Journalism, Journalism and Courage, and Watchdog Journalism and Global Democracy. Presently, his areas of research include the U.S. media industry and wartime journalism.

展江教授现为北京外国语大学国际新闻与传播系教授，主要研究方向为美国新闻媒介运作机制和战时新闻传播事业。曾在在海军部队服役9年，从事记者工作8年，曾在中国青年政治学院新闻与传播系任教。

 

More about China Media Centre and seminars please see https://chinamediacentre.org. If you have any queries about CMC events, please contact Hong Li at hong.li@my.westminster.ac.uk.

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China Media Centre 2013 Spring Seminar

ONLINE GAMING ADDICTS’ WAR

Understanding Online Youth Discourse in China

Speaker: Dr Yuntao Zhang

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

Date: Tuesday 5^th March 2013

Time: 1:30pm-3pm

Venue: A7.3, Harrow Campus, University of Westminster

OPEN TO ALL

 

Abstract

In this seminar, I will explore the attitudes of young Chinese netizens towards the state through a case study of the online ‘e’gao’ film (machinema), ‘Online Gaming Addicts’ War’. The ‘Online Gaming Addicts’ War’ – was an ironic but none the less provocative response to the Chinese government’s online censorship policies and broader issues of political corruption.  It demonstrates the post-80s generation’s grass-roots spontaneity and defiance of authority, as expressed in the emergence of this ‘spoofing’ subculture. The talk aims to understand how spoofing culture discourses emerged and developed within the contradictory cultural context of the new market economy and the continuing authoritarian state. It concludes with some reflections on the implications of this case for the broader issue of political change in China.

 

Dr. Yuntao Zhang is lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is the author of The Origins of the Modern Chinese Press (2007: Routledge) and of several other articles on Chinese media and culture.  She is currently researching into the cultural dimensions of new media technologies and practices in contemporary China.

 

More about China Media Centre and seminars see https://chinamediacentre.org. If you have any queries about CMC events, please contact Hong Li at hong.li@my.westminster.ac.uk

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China Media Centre 2012 Autumn Seminar

Making the Voice Heard: CCTV Expansion Abroad

 

Speaker: Dr Si Si

Chair: Professor Hugo de Burgh

Date: Monday 3^rd December 2012

Time: 1pm-3pm

Venue: A7.4, Harrow Campus

OPEN TO ALL

 

Abstract

This is an ongoing research project, in this presentation: Dr. Si Si will first lay out CCTV coverage rate and current issues out of China. She will then draw upon the main overseas strategies of CCTV. It is the official destination of CCTV overseas part to broadcast news and programmes and to build Soft Power of China. However, based on some interviews and reports from western world, she will present the debates regarding the destination of CCTV expansion abroad. Dr. Si Si will conclude with a few thoughts on both CCTV overseas expansion issues and the state-owned television broadcaster.

Dr. Si Si is currently a visiting academic fellow at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. She is an assistant professor in Media Management and Economics at China Conservatory, Arts Management Department. She is also a research fellow of Media Management & Transformation Center – East Asia Institute (MMTC-EA), Jonkoping University & Tsinghua University. She holds a PhD degree in media economics both from Communication University of China and Case Western Reserve University in the US.

She was a director of editorial department at China Business Update (2005-2008), a journal published by the Ministry of Commerce of China. From 2008-2009 she was a journalist of USA Sino News, covered all home court games of Cleveland Cavaliers 08-09 NBA season in the US.

Dr. Si Si is now leading one of a Key Projects of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education: ‘The Research on Media Industry Cluster in Beijing’. During her visiting at RISJ, she will research on CCTV expansion strategies in Europe. Her research interests are media economics, media cluster, media strategies and revenue in the context of television and new media.

 

More about China Media Centre and seminars see https://chinamediacentre.org. If you have any queries about CMC events, please contact Hong Li at hong.li@my.westminster.ac.uk

 

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