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150018 UE UE GG: The Media in the PRC: Print, TV and Internet (2012S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 15 - Ostasienwissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 35 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 05.03. 15:05 - 16:35 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 19.03. 15:05 - 16:35 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 26.03. 15:05 - 16:35 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 16.04. 15:05 - 16:35 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 23.04. 15:05 - 16:35 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 30.04. 15:05 - 16:35 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 07.05. 15:05 - 16:35 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 14.05. 15:05 - 16:35 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 21.05. 15:05 - 16:35 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 04.06. 15:05 - 16:35 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 11.06. 15:05 - 16:35 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 18.06. 15:05 - 16:35 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 25.06. 15:05 - 16:35 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

After the founding of the People's Republic China's media were mainly seen as a tool to transmit and implement official policies, only from the 1980s, in the course of the reforms, media were more and more seen as a means of information and entertainment. TV and internet have played an important role for social changes and the opening of China to the world. Party and State though try to maintain strict controls over media contents and use.

Assessment and permitted materials

Credits will be attributed on the basis of the oral presentation within the group, home-work, active participation in the class, and the individual written papers. The criteria will be to which extend a student is capable to analyze the main aspects of the topic and to present them in a systematic and coherent form.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students will acquire basic knowledge about China's mass media, their role in politics and social and economic changes, and on freedom of opinion and censorship. They will also analyse current examples of PRC media.

Examination topics

After an introduction to the topic, small groups are to prepare presentations on pivotal aspects, which will be analyzed and discussed by all. Each student will individually write a short paper on the subject (approx. 8.000 characters + list of consulted literature).

Reading list

(Auswahl, weitere s. Moodle)

Won Ho CHANG: Mass Media in China. The History and the Future. Ames 1989

HONG Junhao: The Internationalisation of Television in China. Westport/London 1998

Siegfried KLASCHKA: Die Presse im China der Modernisierungen. Hamburg 1991

Rebecca MACKINNON: China's Censorship 2.0. How Companies Censor Bloggers. First Monday, Volume 14, Number 2, 2 February 2009
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewarticle/2378/2089

Helmut OPLETAL: Chinas Meinungs- und Medienfreiheit – Prüfstein für einen demokratischen Wandel. In: Gerd Kaminski, Barbara Kreissl (Hrsg.): Harmonie und Menschenrechte in China. ÖGCF. Wien 2008 (S.65-88)

Helmut OPLETAL: Die Informationspolitik der Volksrepublik China. Bochum 1981

Helmut OPLETAL: The Role of Mass Media and China's Perception of the World. In: Schriftenreihe der Landesverteidigungsakademie 3/1997 (Wien), S. 192-207

ZHA Jianying: China pop. How soap operas, tabloids and bestsellers are transforming a culture. New York 1995

ZHAO Yuezhi: Media, Market and Democracy in China. Chicago 1998

Association in the course directory

GG 220

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