Non-CAS Event
Saturday, April 22, 2017, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building, Butcher Auditorium
Timothy Weston, Associate Professor, History
The media’s role as a social institution has long been a pressing issue for Chinese and American scholars, politicians, journalists and others. In this lecture, Timothy Weston will focus on the complex history of Sino-American discourse related to media and society. Beginning in the early 20th century, China and the United States sparred over the media’s role and, in fact, served as a foil for each other regarding media attitudes and practices. However, as the Internet, social media and other media technologies contributed to globalization, this has complicated a traditionally confrontational discourse between the two countries over the appropriate role of the press in society.