Chinese-language Digital/Social Media in Australia: Rethinking Soft Power

Project Member(s): Sun, W.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)
Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2018

Summary: Chinese-language digital/social media in Australia. This project aims to study the production, content and use of digital/social media by mainland Chinese migrants in Australia. China’s global rise has generated widespread anxiety about its possible use of diasporic Chinese media to influence the world. This project expects to generate a new framework for analysing soft power and propaganda in digital/social media, while also undertaking a major rethinking of the concept of flexible citizenship. The study will produce a more accurate assessment of China’s influence through migrant media in Australia and elsewhere.

Publications:

Sun, W 2019, 'Chinese-language digital/social media in Australia: double-edged sword in Australia’s public diplomacy agenda', Media International Australia, vol. 173, no. 1, pp. 22-35.
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Sun, W Australian National University 2018, Decrying Chinese-language media risks ostracising Chinese-Australians, Canberra.

Anderson, C 2018, 'Is China a Surveillance State?', 2SER.

Australia-China Relations Institute 2018, 'Chinese Students in Australia', podcast.

Doogue, G 2018, 'Tensions in Australia-China relationship affect local community', Saturday Extra on Radio National ABC.

Fray, P 2018, 'Fourth Estate'.

Sun, W 2018, 'Is Anti-China Rhetoric Harming Social Cohesion in Australia?', Pearls and Irritations.

Sun, W 2018, 'Megaphone diplomacy is good for selling papers, but harmful for Australia-China relations', The Conversation.

Walkley Foundation 2018, 'Walkley Foundation 'China in the Media Talk'', podcast.

FOR Codes: Media Studies, Consumption and Everyday Life, The Media, Communication Across Languages and Culture, Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture, Communication, EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE

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