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Source: China Media Project (9/2/14: http://cmp.hku.hk/2014/09/02/35787/
The me-media of mass manipulation
By David Bandurski
In recent months, propaganda officials and communications pundits have spoken with a sense of newfound purpose about the need to revolutionize “news and propaganda” in order to achieve “the revival of the Party’s mass line.” Much of the dogmatizing is eerily redolent of China’s Maoist past, not a surprise considering that the idea of the “mass line,” or qunzhong luxian (群众路线), is closely associated with Mao Zedong. But there is a sense too that the most recent developments in communications technology, those “me-media” that promise to transform everyone’s future, have brought the Party back — at least potentially — to its roots. (more…)
by denton.2 at osu.edu on September 2, 2014
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