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Verfasst von:	Alekna, John [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Seeking news, making China
Titelzusatz:	information, technology, and the emergence of mass society
Verf.angabe:	John Alekna
Verlagsort:	Stanford, California
Verlag:	Stanford University Press
E-Jahr:	2024
Jahr:	[2024]
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 359 Seiten)
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-1-5036-3858-7
Abstract:	"Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media landscape. Yet interlocking technological, informational, and political revolutions have occurred many times in the past. In China, radio first arrived in the winter of 1922-23, bursting into a world where communication was slow, disjointed, or non-existent. Less than ten percent of the population ever read newspapers. Just fifty years later, at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, news broadcasts reached hundreds of millions of people instantaneously, every day. How did Chinese citizens experience the rapid changes in information practices and political organization that occurred in this period? What was it like to live through a news revolution? John Alekna traces the history of news in twentieth century China to demonstrate how large structural changes in technology and politics were heard and felt. Scrutinizing the flow of news can reveal much about society and politics--illustrating who has power and why, and uncovering the connections between different regions, peoples, and social classes. Taking an innovative, holistic view of information practices, Alekna weaves together both rural and urban history to tell the story of rise of mass society through the lens of communication techniques and technology, showing how the news revolution fundamentally reordered the political geography of China"--
DOI:	doi:10.1515/9781503638587
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Schlagwörter:	(g)China    / (s)Medien    / (s)Technologie    / (s)Massengesellschaft    / (z)Geschichte 1900-2000
Datenträger:	Online-Ressource
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Alekna, John: Seeking news, making China. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2024. - xiv, 359 Seiten
Sach-SW:	Asian history
	Asiatische Geschichte
	HISTORY / Asia / China
	History of engineering & technology
	Media studies
	Medienwissenschaften
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
	Technikgeschichte
Geograph. SW:	China
	China
	East Asia, Far East
K10plus-PPN:	1884492967
	Universitätsbibliothek
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