A discussion of some hot topics concerning the Australia Chinese media such as “What is its role? Does it promote the policy and values of the Chinese Government? What effect does it have? Is it part of Chinese soft power? Who reads it anyway? “
ACRI Director Professor Bob Carr will moderate a discussion with panel members Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Communciations Studies in the Public Communication Program in the School of Communication, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UTS; Professor John Fitzgerald, Director, CSI Swinburne Program for Asia-Pacific Social Investment and Philanthropy, Swinburne University of Technology; Kelsey Munro, Senior Journalist, The Sydney Morning Herald; and Martin Ma, Editor, Sydney Today, followed by a Q&A session.
The panel members and Bob Carr are all sort of the centre of the recent discussion of whether the media in Australia have been soft-powered by the Chinese government.
In the following report is the summary of this discussion from different Medias in Australia, and you will also find the opinions on this issue from the panel members.
Lucy Chen has more.
