East Asian Media - JKM004

• Title: East Asian Media
• Guaranteed by: Department of Media Studies (23-KMS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: 10
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English, Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. Jan Miessler
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Jan Miessler (13.09.2021)

This course focuses on East Asian media and relevant theoretical frameworks.

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. Jan Miessler (13.09.2021)

Students should acquire an understanding of East Asian media, contexts of their operation, and relevancy of related theories.

Course completion requirements

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Discussion, paper and book reviews

Students should contribute to every class by joining the discussion. To pass the class, they have to do a short class presentation (10 minutes, 20 % of the grade) and write a final paper (6+ pages, 60 %) and a book review (2+ pages, 20 %).

Final grade spectrum:

Pass/Fail

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Jan Miessler (13.09.2021)

BENEDICT, R. (1946) The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture. (various editions)

CHEN, K., (2010). Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization. Duke University Press.

CHU, G. C. (1977) Radical Change Through Communication in Mao’s China. The University Press of Hawaii.

CURRAN, J., PARK, M. J. eds. (2000) De-Westernizing Media Studies. Routledge.

DOWNING, J. (1996) Internationalizing Media Theory: Transition, Power, Culture. Sage.

GEORGE, C. (2012) Freedom from the Press. NUS Press.

IWABUCHI, K. (2002) Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Duke University Press.

KIM, K. H., CHOE, Y. (2014) The Korean Popular Culture Reader. Duke University Press.

LEE, C.C. ed. (1990) Voices of China: The Interplay of Politics and Journalism. The Guildford Press

SAID, E. (1978) Orientalism. Routledge & Kegan Paul.

SHIRK, S. L. ed. (2011) Changing Media, Changing China. Oxford University Press.

THUSSU, D. ed. (2007) Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-flow. Routledge.

ZHAO, Y. (1998) Media, Market, and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line. University of Illinois Press.

Teaching methods

Last update: Mgr. Jan Miessler (13.09.2021)

Short introduction to the topic by the lecturer followed by student presentations and debates on key issues of the assigned texts.

Syllabus

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FALL 2021 class schedule (preliminary)

1 Introduction: Asia as a method (Oct 5)
DISSANAYAKE, W. (2009) "The Production of Asian Theories of Communication: Contexts and Challenges" Asian Journal of Communication, 19(4), 453-468.
WANG, G., SHEN, V. (2000). "East, West, Communication, and Theory: Searching for the Meaning of Searching for Asian Communication Theories" Asian Journal of Communication, 10(2), 14-32.

2 Political economy of East Asia (Oct 12)
KASAHARA, S. (2013) "The Asian Developmental State and the Flying Geese Paradigm" UNCTAD/OSG/DP/2013/3 [http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/osgdp20133_en.pdf]

3 Japanese cultural industries (Oct 19)
ITO, Y. (1990) "The Trade Winds Change: Japan's Shift from an Information Importer to an Information Exporter, 1965-1985" Communication Yearbook, 13, 430-465.
IWABUCHI, K. (2002) Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Duke University Press. (Introduction: The 1990s – Japan's Return to Asia, pp. 1-22, Chapter 1: Taking 'Japanization' Seriously: Cultural Globalization Reconsidered", pp. 23-50)

4 Japanese journalism (Oct 26)
KINGSTON, J (2018) "Watchdog Journalism in Japan Rebounds but Still Compromised" Journal of Asian Studies, 77(4), 881–893.

5 Korean wave (Nov 2)
WALSH, J. (2014) "Hallyu as a Government Construct: The Korean Wave in the Context of Economic and Social Development " in: Kuwahara, Y. ed. The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in Global Context. Palgrave, 13-31.
PARK, G. S. "Manufacturing Creativity: Production, Performance, and Dissemination of KPop" Korea Journal, 53(4), 14-33.

6 Chinese Cultural Revolution (Nov 9)
BROMAN, B. M. (1969) " Tatzepao: Medium of Conflict in China's "Cultural Revolution" Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 46(1), 100-104.

7 Chinese media in post-Mao era (Nov 23)
JERNOW, A. L. (1993) “Don’t Force us to Lie”: The Struggle of Chinese Journalists in the Reform Era. Committee to Protect Journalists.
GOLDMAN, M. (1994) “The Role of the Press in Post-Mao Political Struggles” in: Lee, C.C. ed. China’s Media, Media’s China. Westview Press, 23-36.

8 Xi Jinping and digital dystopia (Nov 30)
CREEMES, R. (2015) "Cyber Leninism: History, Political Culture and the Internet in China." [http://ssrn.com/abstract=2589884]
HAN, R. (2015) "Defending the Authoritarian Regime Online: China’s ‘Voluntary Fifty-cent Army’." The China Quarterly, 224, 1006-1025.

9 Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore (Dec 7)
George, C. (2012) Freedom from the Press. NUS Press. (Chapters 1-2, pp. 1-45)
HSU, C. J. (2014) "China's Influence on Taiwan's Media" Asia Survey, 54(3), 515-539.

10 Implications: globalization, hybridization (Dec 14)
SCHILLER, H. (1991) "Not Yet the Post-Imperialist Era" Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 8(1), 13-28.
STRAUBHAAR, J. (2008) "Global, Hybrid or Multiple? Cultural Identities in the Age of Satellite TV and the Internet" Nordicom Review, 29(2), 11-30.

11 Final class (Dec 21)
No readings.