International Blogging Breakfast
Tan Hall Lounge 550 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAOur goal is to get to know new friends and learn more about each other. Also we hope to study the media communication tools and the style of conversation on MSN IMS.
Our goal is to get to know new friends and learn more about each other. Also we hope to study the media communication tools and the style of conversation on MSN IMS.
Professor Jing Wang will discuss the genesis and implementation of a civic media project, NGO2.0, that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009.
What is the likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape of such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro?
Marcella Szablewicz: "Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of what Lauren Berlant has called cruel optimism?"
This talk challenges some of the binary assumptions we made about activism and China by bringing our attention to the gray zones in China where nonconfrontational activists are building an invisible and quiet coalition.