Professor Junhao Hong provides the first systematic study of China's television, the largest and one of the most complicated television systems in the world. China's television represents a highly complicated communication system, a powerful ideological machine, and a unique social manifestation. As Professor Hong illustrates, during the past 20 years, since the country's reform, television has experienced tremendous changes.
While many studies of media globalization attribute the phenomenon mainly to external factors--new technologies, global capital flows, and quality...
Professor Junhao Hong provides the first systematic study of China's television, the largest and one of the most complicated television systems in ...
Are the values of students and their teachers threatened each time they enter the unchartered waters of the Internet's popular culture content? The Internet has indeed "come of age," and as was the case with traditional mass media, the Internet has been increasingly examined for its positive and negative effects, particularly on children. What triggered the present study was a newspaper article that described a ban on computers and the Internet imposed in October 1999 on its followers by the Belz Hasidic, an Israeli Ultra-Orthodox (or Haredi) religious sect. This edict was also endorsed by 30...
Are the values of students and their teachers threatened each time they enter the unchartered waters of the Internet's popular culture content? The In...
