BibSonomy publications for /concept/user/acf/societySun Jun 01 16:51:41 CEST 2008danwei.orgJune 25, 2007 2:06 PMMedia Tyrannosaurs20070625new_media Chinese_media Found via Mind Meters, the Youtube video below is titled Prometeus - The Media Revolution. It's a faux documentary look back at a new media revolution, seen from the year 2050 or so. It was made by an Italian company that does consulting work in social media and other trendy stuff, and the narrator has a pleasant Italian accent. The video includes this prediction: The media arena is less and less populated. Only the Tyrannosaurus Rex survives. The Net includes and unifies all the content. Google buys Microsoft. Amazon buys Yahoo! and become the world universal content leaders with BBC, CNN and CCTV. (Emphasis added) If you liked Prometeus - The Media Revolution, you might also enjoy a video that was going round the Internet in 2004, before Youtube had even launched, called 2014 EPIC, by Google. In a similar vein but strictly fact-based, The Machine is Us/ing Us elegantly explains the meaning of Web 2.0 means in five minutes.Sun Jun 01 16:51:41 CEST 2008China Media ProjectInternet censors move to quiet debate on new online video and audio regulations20080104censorship video online_broadcasting internet broadcasting new_media By David Bandurski – While some analysts of China’s technology sector have suggested new regulations for the online audio and video industry slated to take effect on January 31 do not “actually represent a change in policy,” they have more edgy Chinese media up in arms, and CMP sources indicate authorities are already moving to quiet dissenting voices. The State Council’s Information Office (the primary office tasked with policing China’s Internet) ordered the removal yesterday of an online editorial from Shanghai’s Oriental Morning Post criticizing the regulations, a media source told CMP [Homepage Image: Youku.com, one of China’s leading video sharing sites]. Saying the new MII/SART regulations a were “clearly an act of establishing administrative licensing”, the Oriental Morning Post editorial [still available here] suggested they were a clear violation of Article 15 of China’s Administrative License Law, which additionally says that the setup of administrative licensing systems should primarily address such special areas as national security, public safety and limited national resources having a direct bearing on the public interest. “An icy wind is cutting across the Internet as we enter the new year,” said the lead editorial in today’s Southern Metropolis Daily. The newspaper said plainly that the new regulations “would bring the diversity of online video programming under much stricter controls”: According to the regulations, companies hereafter applying to offer online video and audio services must be wholly state-owned (国有独资) or state-controlled (国有控股), and must have no record of violations in the three years prior to application. Many people believe that the lately very rich culture of online audio and video programming will soon lose its shine as it is “led to health and order.” The Southern Metropolis Daily editorial argued that the SARFT/MII regulations are a “shocking intrusion” regardless of whether the government’s goal is to promote cultural development and innovation (a key Hu Jintao policy buzzword), or to ensure fair market competition. “Industry controls on the online video and audio industry are unfair and directly concern the development interests of countless companies. They are also unjust, binding the civil right to expression in the online age,” the newspaper said. RELATED READING: “SARFT, MII jointly regulate and control online video business“, Caijing magazine, December 30, 2007 Supplementary Note, January 4, 2008, 8:35pm Hong Kong: An additional point to note, as the debate over these new regulations unfolds in the Western media and blogosphere, is that these regulations should not be seen as an attempt to “shut down the industry.” Kaiser Kuo noted this correctly on his Digital Watch blog last month, and Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei.org has concurred. But we can eliminate the “shut down” thesis (as to the motivations of MII/SARFT) out of hand by simply looking at the party’s official media policy (”Three Closenesses”, “Media Strengthening”, etc.), which is about the perfect marriage of control and commercial growth. No, leaders have no wish to shut down the online video and audio industry, or to shake it up unnecessarily. They want it to flourish, and for service providers to make money hand over fist. But they also want to bring it to heel. The crucial point is to observe how leaders might seek to accomplish these twin objectives through regulations of this sort. 6 Responses to “Internet censors move to quiet debate on new online video and audio regulations” 1. Danwei : The new rules about online video in China Says: January 4th, 2008 at 2:01 pm […] of the rules (and censorship of such criticism) in the Oriental Morning Post and Southern Weekly: Internet censors move to quiet debate on new online video and audio regulations.This article is from […] 2. China's new online video regulation: reading the tea leavesRConversation | Techitorial Says: January 4th, 2008 at 10:08 pm […] be certain to read today’s piece by the China Media Project’s David Bandurski: Internet censors move to quiet debate on new online video and audio regulations. He reports that many Chinese journalists and news editors are strongly opposed to the new […] 3. Transpacifica » links for 2008-01-05 Says: January 6th, 2008 at 12:23 am […] Internet censors move to quiet debate on new online video and audio regulations (China Media Project… (tags: censorship china video chinatech) Socialize: […] 4. Lonnie Says: January 6th, 2008 at 11:43 am Nice synopsis… I am not sure how or why some sources like techcrunch made the leap from the new regs to a widespread shutdown….Strange that we don;t see this kind of furor over the new regs in Australia… 5. Global Voices Online » China: So yellow, so violent Says: January 8th, 2008 at 6:59 pm […] not Bruce Lee. The new regulations set to hit Chinese video sharing websites later this month could be regarded as strictly a censorship move, but then there's the fact that most of these sites […] 6. Censur på internettet: Nye regler for videoportaler i Kina | KINABLOG.dk Says: January 11th, 2008 at 4:22 pm […] Zhoumo mener dog i en leder, at der er tale om en stramning (via China Media Project): “According to the regulations, companies hereafter applying to offer online video and […]Wed Apr 02 05:12:50 CEST 2008MA thesis, Media, Macquarie University, Sydney{Class in the Information Society: Socio-economic reproduction in the new media environment}2004society communication_studies new_media Tue Mar 25 06:53:52 CET 2008{Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Social Consequences of ICTs}2006media new_media -freedom Pressefreiheit bureaucracy censorship non-democratic_politics medgov How can a non-democratic ruler provide proper incentives for state bureaucracy? In the absense of competitive elections and separation of powers, the ruler has to gather information either from a centralized agency such as a secret service or a decentralized source such as media. The danger of using a secret service is that it can collude with bureaucrats; overcoming collusion is costly. Free media aggregate information and thus constrain bureaucrats, but might also help citizens to coordinate on actions against the incumbent. We endogenize the ruler?s choice in a dynamic model to argue that free media are less likely to emerge in resource-rich economies where the ruler is less interested in providing incentives to his subordinates. We show that this prediction is consistent with both cross-section and panel data.