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"This book explores from an aesthetic perspective how mobile phone technology, including mobile phone cameras, are used, and the impact this has on individual creativity and innovation, and on culture, sociality and aesthetics. Based on extensive original research including an ethnographic investigation of how specific images were created and distributed, it argues not that a new form of individual creativity is occurring, rather that a more distributed form of creativity now exists"--

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One Introduction: Cultural Governance and Chinese TV Drama Series -- Chapter Two The State and Its Officials in TV Dramas -- Chapter Three Securing the State: Law Enforcement and Military Action -- Chapter Four Justifying the State: Political Legitimacy and Accountability -- Chapter Five Creating the Political Discourses of TV Dramas -- Chapter Six The Chinese Television Drama Audience -- Chapter Seven Government Regulations and Censorship Mechanisms -- Chapter Eight Chinese Perceptions of Television's Function and Influence -- Chapter Nine Conclusion: Chinese TV Discourses and the Factors of Their Production -- Glossary of Technical Terms -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index.

Mass Communication and Media play an integral part in modern societies. This publication reflects on fundamental theoretical works and recent key texts from different backgrounds such as political analysis, feminism, media studies or Cultural Theory. It is designed as a workbook in European-Chinese intercultural studies. Therefore thorough descriptions of the texts in Chinese language are backed up by additional information and questions to ponder to deepen the understanding. This book is part of the series "interKULTUR European-Chinese intercultural Studies" which consists of teaching material for intercultural studies in higher education and research results of such studies.