Course Code and Course Title
[CHES3004/CCSS3101/CHES5110] Media China / Selected Themes on Chinese Media
Time and Venue
Wed 2:30pm - 5:15pm
ELB_202
Instructor
Prof. Jacqueline Zhenru Lin
Course Description
This course will introduce students to the digital transformation of China. The phrase “digital transformation” refers to an array of changes in infrastructures, devices, practices and cultures brought by technologies including but not limited to mobile phones, laptops, tablets, and other computers; websites, online games, virtual worlds, social network sites, apps, and blogs; and governments, corporations, nonprofits, activists, users, makers, hackers, players, and friends.
This course is designed to give you ideas, methods, and experience in understanding how these digital technologies in China change people’s lives, career, the future of humanity in the broadest sense. You will explore different facets of digital China: e-commerce innovation, online civil society, virtual arts, platform labour, and geopolitics. A choice of readings will provide opportunities to discuss various methods used to “feel” digital, from ethnographic observation and interviews to digital humanities.
Course Outline
Digital Transformation and the Chinese Experience
Understanding the Digital
Infrastructure Policy and the Creation of the Chinese Digital Landscape
E-commerce, Innovation, and Development
Love, Intimacy, and Family in Digital China
Platforms and Labour
So Hot Right Now: Digital Culture in China
The Digitalization of Power
Public Sphere and Civic Engagement in Digital China
Dreaming of Money in Digital China
Literature, Film, and Art in Digital China
Technonationalism and Globalization