ࡱ> .0-7 bjbjUU "&7|7|lbbb8 "  $        L"9PbN 0 cc QUESTIONS FOR GUOXIN XING. I. READING IDEOLOGY IN THE MASS MEDIA: METHODOLOGIES AND THE THEORY OF IDEOLOGY Please answer TWO of the following questions. Write about 2500-3000 words on each question, not including your bibliography of references. Avoid extensive overlap in your responses to the two questions. 1. Summarize and evaluate comparatively content analysis, and two of the other approaches that you have studied -- e.g. frame analysis, semiotics, critical linguistics, other forms of critical discourse analysis. With respect to each one, discuss its major methodological characteristics, and its apparent (possibly implicit) theoretical assumptions about the relationship between media texts and (a) power, and (b) extra-discursive reality. From the viewpoint of analyzing ideology, what are the relative strengths and limitations of each approach? In light of your discussion, what is the way forward to construct more reliable and/or useful methods of reading ideology in the media? 2. Why did the concept of ideology decline in media studies during the 1980s? Should the concept be rehabilitated and deployed more frequently in media studies in the context of 21st century globalization, particularly with respect to the analysis of media texts? What is to be gained by such rehabilitation? What amendments to theories of ideology are required, in light of the theoretical challenges and debates of the past two decades? 3. Based on your understanding of the political economy of the state, media and globalization, including your appreciation of the relationship between the textual characteristics of news and broader structures of power and ideology, speculate about the (expected) nature of American news framing of labour and protest movements in China [assuming that this is the intended topic of your dissertation]. What ideological frames, codes, or discourses are likely to be deployed? How would these be evident in media texts, in the manifest content of news narratives? What method(s) would you use to explore the relationship between media texts and broader ideological formations, and why? II. Political Economy: Communication and the Role of the State in the Neo-Liberal Global Order Please answer two of the following questions and limit the length of each answer to a maximum of 3,000 words. 1. Compare and contrast Marxist and post-structuralist discussions on the nature of the current global order. In your view, in what ways have Marxist political economists such as David Harvey and Panitch and Gindin advanced their discussions of the current global order beyond Poulantzass well-known thesis about the internationalization of capitalist relations? What are the primary ways in which post-structuralist analysts challenge Marxist theories of imperialism? Please try to pay attention to variations within each broad campin your discussion. 2. There is an emerging consensus in current theorizations of the state that it is not the sheer increase or decrease of state power, but the transformation or reconstitution of state power that should be the focal point of analysis in understanding the nature of neoliberal globalization. With this in mind and using the media and communication field as an example, discuss the respective trajectories of neoliberal transformation of the U.S. state and the reform era Chinese state. In what ways are the two trajectories intertwined and mutually reinforcing? What have been the global implications of these intertwined transformations? From the perspective of communication and keep in mind the question of legitimation, what are the potential friction points and/or respective constraints on each states further neoliberal transformation? 3. The juxtaposition between an implicitly repressive state and a supposedly emancipatory civil society has become a powerful conceptual framework in Chinese communication studies, and the concept of transnational civil society is just gaining vogue inside China. If you were to give a seminar to a group of graduate students on this topic, how would you unpack these concepts and challenge any dichotomous understanding of them? Where does labor fit in this conceptual scheme? Please draw from relevant literature on China and other parts of the world to make your case. 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