RUDN Modern Media System Course Blog

  By: Said EL MARDA Moroccan media roots can be traced back to the colonial period when Morocco was a protectorate of France and Spain from 1912 to 1956. The colonial powers introduced the print press in its modern form, and Spain played an essential role in establishing several publications in the northern cities of Ceuta, Tangiers, and Tetouan. As early as 1820. Unlike radio, which was controlled by foreign powers from 1928 until independence in 1956, print media represented a site of political struggle. Moroccan nationalists published their first Arabic papers, Lisan Al-Maghreb and Sinan Al-Qalam, in 1907 to promote nationalist ideas among educated Moroccan elites as tools of liberation. The French colonialists responded by introducing several Press Codes to administer and regulate the nationalist print press. After independence in 1956, the print press remained a tool that was used widely in the struggle between the state and the opposition parties. Local radio broadcasting...

  By: Cao Yinfei (Nick)         I know that China always be critisized as "a country we no freedom". Here I want to say, "you can never wake up someone who pretend to sleep."     Maybe you have heard that, in China, all media are belong to goverment. This is 50% right. Yes indeed, maybe it sounds so terrible that "everything is belongs to government". But we should know that, in a socialism country, people are the true owner of everything.      From this example, we can see that, Halin and Mancini models are not very suitable for Chinese media history. And more important is, when the time went to the new era, digital era, the new born Chinese private media are increase so fast. Just like Tik Tok, Weibo, WeChat, Bilibili and so on. They are playing a more important role in the market of media. Right now, 60% of media are belong to country and 40% of them are private. This new balance is working well in China rigth now. It can make sure th...

Galkin Daniil The photo was made by Ilya Nayamushin, Reuters. The topic of two media - Soviet and Russian - is very interesting and relevant not just at this time, but right now, today. The Soviet media system sharply highlights its authoritarianism, censorship, and focus on the propaganda of the ruling party, which we even study as such. In this post, I will try to compare these two time periods, using the model of Hallin and Mancini, according to its four fundamental factors. The structure of the media market Newspapers and radio were the main directions of media in the USSR. There were many of them, almost every region supported its own party, spread messages through articles glorifying communism and the great ideas of Stalin, perestroika, and a brighter future. In principle, nothing has changed in Russia, except that newspapers have been replaced by television. The fee for it is minimal, the content can be easily distributed, the coverage of advertising, due to constant broadcastin...

The comparison of Chinese media system。 Since the founding of New China, tremendous changes have taken place in the management system of Chinese media under the specific historical background. The development process includes the following four periods:  1. Initial stage -- the beginning of media development  Before 1978, the operating funds were directly allocated by the government. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the media industry formed a relatively complete news network in just a few years. The Party and the government formulated a series of rules and regulations to regulate the media work, established the operation and management system suitable for the national conditions at that time, and clarified the enterprise status of the newspaper. At the end of 1949, a meeting of newspaper managers was held in Beijing. Newspapers in this period began to implement corporate management, specific measures are: correct adjustment of quotation; Pa...

                    -   Papiya Mondal • India is the largest democracy of the world with a vibrant mediascape and there is a complicated relationship between Indian media and political systems. •Indian media system after democracy (1947) :1975 Indira Gandhi's(3rd PM of india)declared a state of emergency and suspended civil liberties.Immediately after this declaration, the government tightened its controls on the Indian mass media, especially on the newspapers which had reputations of being free.1977,Morarji Desai(4th pm) again work for press freedom. •Using Hallin and Mancini(2004) models of media systems on Indian press and political system.Indian political system is characterized by 'clientelism' and "polarized pluralism' thus yielding high 'political parallelism' and 'instrumentalisation' of media at the hands of political and corporate elites. Commercialization of media has ensued weak professionalism among journalists and...

By: Zheng Haoyuan (John) （The following are personal opinions）     I think the same objective thing is under the influence of different backgrounds, political positions, and values. It will be presented with different views. This also applies to the Chinese media system. Because the samples analyzed by these three media system models are all Western capitalist countries.       Due to the differences in economic and political systems, I think one of these three models cannot fully summarize the Chinese media system. However, we can still try to analyze the Chinese media system in four main dimensions. First, in terms of the development of the media market: among the TOP 10 most socially valuable media in China in 2019, the central media accounted for six and the commercial media accounted for four. The central media does not have management power over the commercial media, and according to the data it can be concluded that without violating Chinese laws, the...

  Author:ZhangJiahui(Lucas) Chinese media are state-owned rather than private, and print media, radio and television are actually controlled by the Party and the government. To take the simplest example, almost all channels broadcast rigourous and serious news broadcasts advocating the country's political line on time at 7 p.m. every night. Major newspapers are also writing about the plans and measures of the Party and the state. All these show that on the one hand, China's media are instrumentalised as a way to publicise the national system, which is exactly in line with the model under the Soviet communist concept. Although the dominance of today's Chinese media is still in traditional media, more and more people begin to pay attention to news and the situation from the field of new media, but China's new media still has a certain tendency of the party and the government. According to the Statistical Report on the Development of China's Internet Network, as of Dec...