Overview

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.

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Author:   Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge
Publisher:   Michigan State University Press
Imprint:   Michigan State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781611863765

ISBN 10:   1611863767
Pages:   299
Publication Date:   01 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction: Communication Convergence and “the Core” for a New Era Part 1. Convergence and Fragmentation in the “New Era” On the Paradox of Convergence and Fragmentation in the Age of Globalization-Stephen J. Hartnett, Zhengrong Hu, Qingwen Dong, Zhi Li, and Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge Convergence and Fragmentation in the Umbrella Revolution: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Mainlandization of Hong Kong-Andrew Gilmore Fragmentation and Convergence in the Construction of National Imaginaries in US and Chinese Documentaries-Zhi Li and Xi Wang Part 2. Communication and Crisis in the Age of Convergence Dueling Narratives of Distrust, Hypocrisy, and Blame: The 2014 US–China Cyber Controversy-Michelle Murray Yang and Da Wang Huawei and the 2019 Cybersecurity Crisis: Sino–US Conflict in the Age of Convergence-Jufei Wan and Bryan R. Reckard Evolving Forms of Citizen Engagement in the Age of Convergence: The 2016 Baidu and Ctrip Crises as Case Studies in Critique, Trust, and Hope in Contemporary China-Jack Kangjie Liu and Dan Wang Part 3. Case Studies in the Changing Mediascape of China Rebuilding in Unity: The 2015 Tianjin Explosions and Renewal Discourses in Chinese Social Media-Lisa B. Keränen and Yimeng Li Code Switching and Language Games in Contemporary China; or, Convergence and Identity Construction on WeChat-Todd L. Sandel and Peimin Qiu “Plowing Fortunes,” or Fine Wine with Chinese Characteristics: US and UK Media Representations of the Chinese Wine Industry-David R. Gruber Conclusion: US–China Communication and a New Type of Great Power Relations Acknowledgments About the Contributors Index

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Media convergence is well-known as a concept, but as a historical process, it is complicated by changing social contexts. This volume studies media convergence in China while making sensitive comparisons with the United States. The result is an engaging comparative study that illuminates the concrete processes of media convergence and fragmentation in both countries. This is an important contribution to the study of global communication as well as media politics in China. - Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Media convergence is well-known as a concept, but as a historical process, it is complicated by changing social contexts. This volume studies media convergence in China while making sensitive comparisons with the United States. The result is an engaging comparative study that illuminates the concrete processes of media convergence and fragmentation in both countries. This is an important contribution to the study of global communication as well as media politics in China. --GUOBIN YANG, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

"Media convergence is well-known as a concept, but as a historical process, it is complicated by changing social contexts. This volume studies media convergence in China while making sensitive comparisons with the United States. The result is an engaging comparative study that illuminates the concrete processes of media convergence and fragmentation in both countries. This is an important contribution to the study of global communication as well as media politics in China."" - Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania"

Author Information

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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