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Communication convergence in contemporary China
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- Book Synopsis
- In a speech opening the nineteenth Chinese Communist Party Congress meeting in October 2017, President Xi Jinping spoke of a "New Era" characterized by new types of communication convergence between the government, Party, and state media. His speech signaled that the role of the media is now more important than ever in cultivating the Party's image at home and disseminating it abroad. Indeed, communication technologies, people, and platforms are converging in new ways around the world, not just in China. This process raises important questions about information flows, control, and regulation that directly affect the future of US-China relations. Just a year before Xi proclaimed the New Era, scholars had convened in Beijing at a conference cohosted by the Communication University of China and the US-based National Communication Association to address these questions. How do China and the United States envision each other, and how do our interlinked imaginaries create both opportunities for and obstacles to greater understanding and strengthened relations? Would the convergence of new media technologies, Party control, and emerging notions of netizenship in China lead to a new age of opening and reform, greater Party domination, or perhaps some new and intriguing combination of repression and freedom? Communication Convergence in Contemporary China presents international perspectives on US-China relations in this New Era with case studies that offer readers informative snapshots of how these relations are changing on the ground, in the lived realities of our daily communication habits.
- About The Author
- PATRICK SHAOU-WHEA DODGE is an Associate Professor Clinical Track and past Associate Program Chair at the University of Colorado Denver's International College Beijing. He was a member of the National Communication Association's Task Force on Fostering International Collaboration in the Age of Globalization and worked with the Communication University of China to co-organize NCA-CUC cosponsored biennial conferences in 2016 and 2018. In 2019 he worked with Shenzhen University to co-organize the NCA-SZU 2019 Shenzhen Forum. Dodge was the 2018 inaugural fellow for the NCA-CUC Visiting Fellows Program for Communication and Media Research. He is also the 2018-2020 Association for Chinese Communication Studies' Vice President and will serve as the ACCS President in 2020-2022.
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- ISBN
- 9781611863765
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Michigan State University Press, (30 November 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 299
- Weight
- 426 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 20 mm
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