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March 25, 2008 — China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping cracks down on some of the 10,000 websites that publish maps in China, most without authorization. [8] January 6, 2009 — Chinese authorities fine UK students for "illegal map-making activities". [9]
[2] [3] However, mass media has been criticized for its limited iconography, which constructs generic locations that offer a restricted and distorted worldview. [4] The lack of geographical balance in news coverage may limit spatial knowledge, with US media often focusing on a narrow range of nations and regions for international news.
Social media caused a new experience in geographical communication as it allowed instant contact with various people around the globe. Social media communication has been tracked through the United States, and on certain social media platforms there is the ability to track and log communication to and from all areas of the world.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are an increasingly important component of business, healthcare, security, government, trade, media, transportation and tourism industries and operations in China. GIS software is playing an increasing role in the way Chinese companies analyze and manage business operations.
Global media studies is a field of media study in a global scope. Media study deals with the content, history and effects of media. Media study often draws on theories and methods from the disciplines of cultural studies, rhetoric, philosophy, communication studies, feminist theory, political economy and sociology. [23]
Several studies on internet geography and Wikipedia were published by the members of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII).. A 2009 article by Mark Graham of OII in The Guardian presented a color-coded map of the world that illustrated the disparity between the numbers of geotagged Wikipedia articles (in all languages) for countries from the Global North and from the Global South.
Media in China is strictly controlled and censored by the CCP, [1] with the main agency that oversees the nation's media being the Central Propaganda Department of the CCP. [2] [3] The largest media organizations, including the China Media Group, the People's Daily, and the Xinhua News Agency, are all controlled by the CCP.
Media imperialism (sometimes referred to as cultural imperialism) is an area in the international political economy of communications research tradition that focuses on how "all Empires, in territorial or nonterritorial forms, rely upon communications technologies and mass media industries to expand and shore up their economic, geopolitical, and cultural influence."