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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. [5]
[2] [22] Places-in-media are representations of place circulating in all sorts of media for all sorts of reasons, for example landscape paintings signifying the owner's status, and news images of urban spaces linking crime and chaos to minority populations and the poor. [12]
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.
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.
Global news flow (also referred to as international news flow) is a field of study that deals with the news coverage of events in foreign countries. It describes and explains the flow of news from one country to another. [1] Studies on global news flow typically attempt to understand why certain countries are more newsworthy than others..
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.
China often blocks news websites, social media platforms, and other services such as Facebook, Gmail, Google, Instagram, and Pinterest, and has limited their access to the general public. The Great Firewall has blocked most foreign news websites, such as Voice of America , BBC News , The New York Times , and Bloomberg News .