Manual / Issue 3 / Circus

Manual, a journal about art and its making. Circus. The third issue centers on the theme of Circus. Includes analyses of various pieces in the museum\u27s archive, a fold-out poster by Jim Drain, and a selection of artworks owned by the museum that loosely address said theme. Softcover, 62 pages. Published 2014 by the RISD Museum. Manual 3 (Circus) contributors include Gina Borromeo, Alison W. Chang, Michelle Clayton, Jim Drain, Daniel Heyman, Andrew Martinez, Ellen McBreen, Thangam Ravindranathan, Rebecca Schneider, Susan Smulyan, and Gwen Strahle.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/risdmuseum_journals/1002/thumbnail.jp

Using Hollywood Films to Teach Democracy : SCAP Film Polycy in Occupied Japan

特集2 : US Cultural Diplomacy in Asia : Strategy and PracticeSpecial Topics I

Commodifying digital television in China: a socio-linguistic analysis of media discourse, technology deployment and control

This study examines public discourse surrounding the development and deployment of digital television in China from 1999 to 2004. It analyzes print media constructions of this new media technology against the backdrop of controlled commodification and formation of trans-media groups that define media reform, development, and management. The study reveals how these structural changes play a key role in restraining the development of a flexible business environment in which print media can support critical technological development. Inhibiting the media’s ability to promote this technological development is a lack of market-oriented experience and knowledge and organizational integration under the current trans-media structure. Accordingly, considerable doubt is cast over the government’s broad strategy of media reform, development and management to successfully support the deployment of digital television as the pre-eminent technology in China’s drive towards modernization