The next China Media Centre seminar will take place on Wednesday 22rd February between 4-6pm at Westminster University’s New Cavendish Campus, in room C1.04.

Prof Michel Hockx from SOAS, University of London, Dr. Mei Hong, Assistant Professor from Southwest Jiaotong University and buy price kamagra online Prof David Gauntlett from University of Westminster, will give a talk with the title ‘China: the New Media Explosion’, You can find more details about the speakers and an abstract of the talk below.

SOAS& CMC 2012 Spring Seminar

CHINA: THE NEW MEDIA EXPLOSION

Speaker: Prof Michel Hockx, Dr. Mei Hong

Interrogator: Prof David Gauntlett

Date: Wednesday 22nd February, 2012

Time: 4-6pm

Venue: C1.04 New Cavendish Campus, University of Westminster,

Chair: Prof Hugo de Burgh

OPEN TO ALL

ABSTRACT:
This lecture introduces the history, development, and widespread popularity of Internet Literature (wangluo wenxue 网络文学) in the People’s Republic of China. The speakers will deal in turn deal with two discrete aspects of the phenomenon, namely the rise of online popular fiction and its impact on other media, and the significance of online practices for the more marginal genre of poetry.

BIOGRAPHY:
Michel Hockx is Professor of Chinese at SOAS, University of London. Born and raised in The Netherlands, he obtained his PhD in 1994 from Leiden University for a thesis on modern Chinese poetry. His later work has dealt with various aspects of the sociology of modern Chinese literature, including the study of early modern literary societies and literary magazines and, more recently, the study of Internet literature. His monograph Internet Literature in China is forthcoming with Columbia University Press.

David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Communications, and Co-Director of the Communications and Media Research Institute, at the University of Westminster. His teaching and discount ca ventolin research concerns people’s use of media in their everyday lives, with a particular focus on creative uses of digital media. He is the author of several books, including Creative Explorations (2007) and Making is Connecting: The social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0 (2011). He has made several popular YouTube videos, and produces the website about media and identities, Theory.org.uk. He has conducted collaborative research with a number of the world’s leading creative organisations, including the BBC, Lego, and Tate.

Mei Hong is a vice professor of Communication Department of Art and Communication College, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. She obtained her PHD in 2006 from Sichuan University for a thesis on Culture and Communication. She is interested in media and society and has published a book on Internet Literature.

 

 

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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 24^th March, 2010
Time: 2.00-4.00 pm
Venue: Lecture Theater 2  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 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 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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