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Contemporary China:

Contemporary China:. State, Media, and Society. Jay Black (Journalism) and Bryan Williams (Political Science) Mercer University. Course Foci. Theoretical Lenses Understanding Bias in Media Effects of Chinese Laws and History Interaction Between State<—>Media<—>Society.

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Contemporary China:

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  1. Contemporary China: State, Media, and Society Jay Black (Journalism) and Bryan Williams (Political Science) Mercer University

  2. Course Foci • Theoretical Lenses • Understanding Bias in Media • Effects of Chinese Laws and History • Interaction Between State<—>Media<—>Society

  3. Team Teaching in Mercer’s Asian Studies Program Benefits Obstacles University Administration Splitting FTE Collaboration Synchronizing pedagogies Time Grading / assigning grades • True Interdisciplinarity • Increase Enrollment • Enhance Student Interest • New form of teaching (at Mercer) • Camaraderie, Creativity, and Commiseration

  4. Theoretical Foundations Political Science Journalism Four Theories of Press Identity Construction Bowstring Control of Chinese Press • Law, State and Society • Formal and Informal Institutions • Social Movements

  5. Possible Case Studies • 2008 Sichuan Earthquake • 2008 Beijing Olympics • 2008 Tibet Protests

  6. For Immediate Implementation: Integration of ‘China Module’ into Current Courses • JMS101 Media and Society • POL345 Environmental Justice • On the Road: Mercer on Mission

  7. Sources and Texts • Two of the media sources we will emphasize are CCTV and China Daily Newspaper. Class Texts • China’s Deep Reform: Domestic Politics in Transition edited by Lowell Dittmer, GuoliLiu, 2006. • Four Theories of the Press: The Authoritarian, Libertarian, Social Responsibility and Soviet Communist Concepts of What the Press Should Be and Do by Fredrick S. Siebert, Theodore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm, 1963. • Changing Media, Changing China by Susan L. Shirk, 2010.

  8. Other Potential Readings • Wu, David Yen-ho. "The Construction of Chinese and Non-Chinese Identities." Daedalus, The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese published by The MIT Press on behalf of American Academy of Arts & Science 120, no. 2 (1991): 159-79.http://www.jstor.org/stable/20025378 (accessed November 19, 2009). • Wu, Vivian. "Paying off the press." South China Morning Post  (Guangzhou, China), January 16,2009. • Rosenthal, Elisabeth. "China Lists Controls to Restrict the Use of E-Mail and Web.“ New York Times, January 23, 2009. • Rosenthal, Elisabeth. "China Trying to Crack Down on Vocal Liberal Intellectuals."  New York Times, May 8, 2000.

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