Posts tagged with "Public Media"
Saturday, 9. June 2007, 18:01:53
Public Media, Politics, Civil Society
Re-public.grPaul Hartzog introduces the concept of panarchy, a sociopolitical field that emerges when connective technologies, which lower the threshold for collective action, enable cooperative peer-to-peer production – of knowledge, of tools, of power.Panarchy is the emerging system of sociopolitical activity that we might refer to as the “wiki-fication” of society. By “wikification,” I refer to the rise of mass participation systems, that include 1) software production, or “open source,” 2) knowledge production, e.g. wikipedia, or 3) group/identity production, e.g. communities. Mass participation is enabled by the recent spread of connective network technologies, from cell phones to the Internet. Panarchy emerges when these connective technologies, which lower the threshold for collective action, enable cooperative peer-to-peer production – of knowledge, of tools, of power.
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Saturday, 28. April 2007, 19:44:29
Social Elite, Journalism, Public Media
WikipediaWendi Murdoch. Originally Wendi Deng (simplified Chinese: 邓文迪; pinyin: Dèng Wéndí, originally 邓文革; pinyin: Dèng Wéngé; born 1969 in Xuzhou, China) is a former Vice President of Business Affairs at News Corporation’s Asian satellite television operation and is married to its chief executive Rupert Murdoch, one of the most powerful media owners in the world.
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Friday, 30. March 2007, 00:57:01
Public Media
By Brian Hu
Asia Pacific Arts
UCLA Asia Institute
4/28/2005A monk, a pair of farmers, and two great sheep show us how to laugh at China's inadequacies.
Just below the surface of China’s steady ascent to global economic domination are buried blips reflecting irregularities and inconsistencies that the direction toward capitalism seems unable to smooth over. In the last few years, we’ve seen this manifested cinematically through the depiction of marginalized peoples left behind; for example, in the performing groups of Jia Zhang-ke’s films, the young drifters of Lou Ye’s Suzhou River, and even the disillusioned Hangzhou youth of Yang Fudong’s An Estranged Paradise, which played in this year’s UCLA Film/TV Archive Mainland Chinese film series. Elsewhere in the film series though is another emergent trend, which is to portray these idiosyncratic elements of contemporary China through absurdist humor, drawing from the masters of the style such as Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati, and their modern reincarnations like Tsai Ming-liang and Aki Kaurismaki. Deadpan humor is marked by extreme absurdity hidden and imbedded blank-faced within the textures of society. The object of its ridicule seems absolutely ridiculous, yet it blends so naturally into the physical spaces of the real world -- making it a particularly powerful tool for social critique.
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Friday, 30. March 2007, 00:46:12
Public Media, Politics, Civil Society
By Aynne Kokas
Asia Pacific Arts
UCLA Asia Institute
2/16/2007Mao's Yan'an talks on art echo in the villages of China, as documentarian Wu Wenguang leads a team of videographers on a mission to teach ordinary people to make films about their own communities.
Chinese documentary director, writer, and educator Wu Wenguang's most recent project, the China Village Self-Governance Film Project is entertaining and charming, despite its best efforts to be a public diplomacy collaboration between China and the European Union. The film series, a palette of combined works including video village self-governance reports by rural Chinese and a documentary describing the process of preparing the villagers to take their role behind the camera, provides a startling and guileless view of the lives of the people most underrepresented in Chinese media.
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Thursday, 29. March 2007, 03:39:10
ABSURDIST, Public Media, Media Control
Joel Martinsen
DanWei.org
March 28, 2007There's been a lot of discussion recently about remarks made by a SARFT official at a film conference in Jiangsu last week. Zhang Hongsen, deputy director of the Administration's Film Bureau, let fly at a number of art films that he said were shameful for the Chinese people.
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Monday, 26. March 2007, 07:01:38
Public Media
By Wu Zhong, China Editor
Asia Times
21 March 2007HONG KONG - The standard reaction of a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson to any harsh criticism of the country by a foreign government or organization is: "We are resolutely opposed to any intervention in China's internal affairs by any foreign force." But there have been exceptions to China's resistance to "foreign force".
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Thursday, 15. March 2007, 00:40:37
Religion, Public Media
ChristianNewsAnalysis.com
February 10th, 2007I had been thinking about doing some research for awhile on how Hollywood portrays Christians to the world. Do not underestimate the power that Hollywood has on the minds of human beings by use of television sets, movie theaters, DVD’s and VCR tapes. I ran across an excellent post on this very topic this morning by Geoff at “Along the Shore,” entitled “Is This What the World Really Thinks About Us?”
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Thursday, 15. March 2007, 00:14:34
Religion, Public Media
By Rick Dack
Director of A.D. Communications
DefendingTheBible.com As the light from my television flickered, I began to watch another inaccurate documentary on the Bible. In frustration, I looked around in desperation trying to find one those fake, red bricks to throw at the television screen. I could not find one.
I conduct apologetics presentations, in Churches and Schools, on Bible Archaeology blended with what pop culture (Hollywood) and modernist/liberal academics believe about the Bible. The beliefs presented on television are not limited to the television medium alone but are in our Schools, Christian bookstores and places of worship.
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Wednesday, 14. March 2007, 23:54:03
Religion, Public Media
By JAMES PONIEWOZIK
Time Magazine
Mar. 01, 2007In the movies, if you want to hook an audience, you throw them a surprise while telling them a story they've heard before. James Cameron knows how to hook an audience. Appearing in New York City with a limestone coffin that he claimed had held the remains of Jesus, Cameron attacked a central Christian tenet--that Christ rose bodily from the dead. Yet he confirmed another article of faith: that Hollywood blasphemers are out to get Christians.
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Wednesday, 14. March 2007, 23:49:50
Religion, Public Media, Sexuality
Schroth, Raymond A.
National Catholic Reporter
9/15/1995"Take off her clothes," says the priest.
The soldiers move in, and in a moment the beautiful woman stands naked, arms clasped over her breasts, before the Dominican monk behind the desk, as this lascivious inquisitor's gaze rakes over her exposed body.
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