Cyberpolitics W12 Part Ii

Politization of News

a presentation for the Davies Forum: Innovation in News-making

First Story:

Anti-CNN and Global / Local Dichotomy

March 2008 (Tibet Riot)

做人不要太CNN ／Don’t be too CNN

Global / the

West VS.

Local / the East

Roar Dragon: rise of popular nationalism (backup by local media policy)

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China is unhappy

Online battle between “leftist” nationalists and political liberals

Second Story:

Grassroots Media and Local Thickness -- Story on eluding the cat

(Feb 2009)

(Rescuing the localS from the Nation)

The death of a youth in a police detention cell in Yunan Puning County (Feb 2009).

The Story and its thickness

Violence in police detention center: Yang Jia’s killing of six cops in Shanghai (2008)

Police violence and unnatural death in detention center

Creditability of local authority

Guizhou Weng’an riot over police’s “push ups” investigation report on the death of a young girl in 2008

Control 2.0 and 50 Cent Party

South China Tiger-gate 2008 Grass Mud Horse in 2009

Third Story:

Grassroots media activism-- Anti-PX in Xiamen (2007)

Negotiation of Voices

Xiamen Anti-PX demonstration

Political negotiation

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Authoritative deliberation?

Chen Guangcheng, blind activist sentenced for 4.5 years in 2008

Ai Weiwei, a blogger and artist, started a citizen initiative to collect name of school kids

victim in Wenchuan earthquake Dec last year.

Hu Jia, human rights activist, sentence to 3.5 years in 2003 under the charge of inciting

sedition act.

Liu Xiaobo, arrested after the release of charter 08 in 2009

A law blogger in Beijing blog about unjust legal cases, his firm was forced to close down early

this year.

Tiger temple, citizen reporter on peasant and

rural life

Political negotiation with the rise of citizen movement

since 2003

Politization of News

•Global and Local - the rise of popular nationalism - how to deal with the East VS. West framework?

•Elusive news with diverse local voices - grab it or rescue it?

•Negotiating reality - media’s role in political transformation - relation with citizen movement