Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society
John Alekna, "Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society"
English | ISBN: 150363857X | 2024 | 374 pages | PDF | 36 MB
English | ISBN: 150363857X | 2024 | 374 pages | PDF | 36 MB
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?
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