The revolution in Egypt at January, 2011 became the headline for most of the news media in the world. At February 11 Egypt president Mubārak stepped down from president. Egypt people finally won the competition. The Internet played an import role in the Egypt revolution. The first message was posted on twitter which says “January 25 is the Police day of Egypt; let’s get to Tahrir Square to express our ideas.” Even though Egypt government shut down the Internet, it did not stop people. Western Companies provided services of posting Twitter through telephone. Maybe the Chinese communist party feels glad as it had already blocked the websites such as Facebook and Twitter years ago.
Although most countries positively evaluated the Egypt revolution, countries such as Russia and China, are not happy with the failure of Mubārak. According to Fiona Hill, the director of the Brookings Institution's Center on the United States and Europe and senior fellow in its foreign-policy program, “China banned web searches of "Egypt", and Russia's state media has tended to play up the idea of U.S. and other outside orchestration of the events in Cairo. (Hill)”
In this paper, I am going to investigate how the media control strategies of Chinese government which including propaganda and censorship changed according to the Internet, and how media control affects companies.
Propaganda is a traditional strategy of Communist Party (Wilbur, and How 286-310). During World War 2, the Chinese communist party was at the undeveloped region of China and they kept propagate to the villager living around that region. After they won the civil war and hold state power, propaganda was even more widely used. They required everyone to show their faith and love to th...
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...slike discussed in public, and people seems to enjoy their lives. As Minxin Pei, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College in the US pointed out "unlike the Mubarak regime, the Chinese Communist Party has consistently delivered increasing standards of living and currently faces few threats to its authority at home." (Hartcher) But if all these are just emperor’s new suit, there would be someone stand out and point it out sooner or later.
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It is interesting to note that some of the new Internet regulations contradict International Laws signed by the Chinese government. China signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 1998 that states that “Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print…or through any other media of his choice”.
In 1966 a socio-political movement known as the Cultural Revolution swept across the People’s Republic of China and resulted in astounding changes whose effects are still being felt by the nation today. The Cultural Revolution changed nearly every aspect of traditional Chinese culture, politics, and psychology, and replaced it with Maoist ideology. To change the paradigm of a nation with deep historical roots, immense size, and a greatly distributed population, such as China, in a course of ten years is a feat most commendable. Responsible for this mind boggling change is, at the heart of it, a single man, Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was born in 1893 to humble beginnings in the countryside, the world itself oblivious to the future of this man (Spence). Mao’s rebellious nature came from events in his youth such as the destruction of the Quing dynasty, the political wars he played with his father, and the exposure to literature, especially that of Marx and Lenin (Clements).
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Rosenberg, William G., and Young, Marilyn B. Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
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...rceive this as an attack on China's reputation. Many of the younger generation are fully ready to accept the current balance of freedom and power because they know that they have considerably more freedoms than earlier generations (Jiang 5)