Mainstream cultural production and audience citizenship: dispute resolution reality shows in transitional Chinese society

This study explores cultural productions in one television genre in Chinese mainstream media: dispute resolution shows. By applying the theoretical frameworks of Hall’s encoding and decoding and Habermas’ public spheres, this study mainly answers two research questions: 1) how does mainstream produc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhang, Yafei
Other Authors: Berkowitz, Daniel A. (Daniel Allen)
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2017
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/7052
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8553&context=etd