Creating Mediated Cosmopolitanism? Global Media Flows and the Beijing Youth
Tang, T. 2018. Creating Mediated Cosmopolitanism? Global Media Flows and the Beijing Youth. PhD thesis University of Westminster Communication and Media Research Institute
Tang, T. 2018. Creating Mediated Cosmopolitanism? Global Media Flows and the Beijing Youth. PhD thesis University of Westminster Communication and Media Research Institute
Title | Creating Mediated Cosmopolitanism? Global Media Flows and the Beijing Youth |
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Type | PhD thesis |
Authors | Tang, T. |
Abstract | This thesis aims to explore how the Chinese urban young generation experience different forms of cultural cosmopolitanism through the consumption of growing flows of de-territorialized media products – mainly, but not solely, US-led Western media products, including films and television programmes. It also examines how this generation is negotiating hybrid identities from the perspective of cultural cosmopolitanism, given their strong Chinese cultural influences and constant exposure and consumption of Western media products. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the research is designed to be an exploratory, though pioneering work, which also seeks a possible explanation as to what contributes to cultural cosmopolitanism. Drawing on a range of historical sources, the thesis throws light on the causes of cosmopolitanism within the Chinese context and relates it to stability and change in the social environment in China. |
Year | 2018 |
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Published | Jan 2018 |