SPP Associate Professor Sahana Udupa gave a talk based on her book, Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics, at the "Ideas from India" conference organized by the South Asia Research Institute at the Australian National University on November 10.
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In a public lecture on November 21 hosted by CMDS, Peking University Professor Hu Yong explored the evolution of public opinion in modern China. "The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was skilled at creating government information management systems before the internet," said Hu. "The question now is how will they respond in the internet age."
Why do certain events become globally iconic happenings in history, while others fade into oblivion? How does the fall of the Berlin wall serve as an example of the complex process of storytelling and mythmaking? These themes are in the focus of non-resident CMDS fellow, Julia Sonnevend's new book, Stories Without Borders: The Berlin Wall and the Making of a Global Iconic Event.
Astonishingly, two-thirds of internet users live in countries where criticism of authorities is subject to censorship, according to Freedom of the Net 2016, a survey of internet freedom in 65 countries worldwide, run by Freedom House, a U.S. government funded NGO.
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