Beijing's global media offensive

• Verfasst von: Kurlantzick, Joshua [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Beijing's global media offensive
• Titelzusatz: China's uneven campaign to influence Asia and the world
• Verf.angabe: Joshua Kurlantzick
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 534 pages)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online : Political science
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-19-751579-2
• ISBN: 978-0-19-751578-5
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197515761.001.0001
• Schlagwörter: (g)China / (s)Medienpolitik / (s)Massenmedien / (s)Kommunikation / (s)Globalisierung / (s)Soft Power
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Kurlantzick, Joshua, 1976 - : Beijing's global media offensive. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023. - X, 534 Seiten
• RVK-Notation: MH 50150
• Sach-SW: Media Studies
• Sach-SW: Sociology & anthropology
• K10plus-PPN: 1846261961
• K10plus-PPN:
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Abstract

A major analysis of how China is attempting to become a media and information superpower around the world, seeking to shape the politics, local media, and information environments of both East Asia and the world. Since China's ascendancy toward major-power status began in the 1990s, many observers have focused on its economic growth and expanding military. China's ability was limited in projecting power over information and media and the infrastructure through which information flows. That has begun to change. Beijing's state-backed media, which once seemed incapable having a significant effect globally, has been overhauled and expanded. At a time when many democracies' media outlets are consolidating due to financial pressures, China's biggest state media outlets, like the newswire Xinhua, are modernizing, professionalizing, and expanding in attempt to reach an international audience.

Abstract

"In Beijing's Global Media Offensive, the author provides one of the first analyses of how China is attempting to build a media and information and influence superpower around the world, and how this media and political influence power integrates with other forms of Chinese influence in other countries' politics. The book covers China's influence and media power in both China's immediate neighborhood in Asia and also in Latin America, Europe, the United States and many other parts of the world. It traces the ways in which China is trying to build an information and influence superpower, but also critically examines the new conventional wisdom that Beijing has enjoyed great success with these efforts. While China has worked hard to build global media and information superpower, it often has failed to reap gains from its efforts, and has undermined itself with overly assertive, alienating diplomacy. Still, the book contends China's expanded media, information and political influence campaigns will continue to expand and adapt, potentially helping Beijing export its political model and protect the ruling Party, and potentially damaging press freedoms, human rights and democracy abroad"--