1. Media and International Relations —the politics of international communication FAN Shiming, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of International Studies Peking University 2011 fall semester

2. What we are going to discuss in this class will be focused on the mass media which plays the basic role in international communications, including televisions, newspapers, magazines and the internet, and the institutions/organizations or the people that interact with them.

4. Media as extension of man The world that we have to deal with is out of reach, out of sight, out of mind. It has to be explored, reported, and imagined The media might be our eras and eyes, and…?

5. A mediated World Media and our “world” pseudo-environment vs. reality Media as extension of man Marshall McLuhan Media as a part of events

6. pseudo-environment Chapter I, of Lippmann's book, PUBLIC OPINION is titled "The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads." Lippmann, writes, "This then, will be the clue to our inquiry. We shall assume that what each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him.

7. what Lippmann labels a "pseudo- environment" that is a highly subjective, biased, and necessarily abridged mental image of the world. Therefore, everyone's pseudo- environment is, to some degree, a fiction. People "live in the same world, but think and feel in different ones." Behavior is stimulated in the pseudo-environment and acted upon in the real environment

8. subjective vs. objective fragmented vs. Integrated …... Pseudo-environment and reality

9. A mediated world Our understanding of the world is more based on media information than direct personal experiences. The world we know is the one selected and interpreted by the media. Media coverage is the re- presentation or even re-construction of the reality.

10. News and Politics Politics as communication politics as persuasion communication and political participation communication and political power News communication also depends on political development in history: ideas, diversification, political environment in reality: partisan media, commercial media, political tradition

11. A approach from political studies Questions that could not be answered by communication studies the 5 w approach in communication studies Study from political perspectives power value management ……

12. Class arrangements 5 sections 12 topics Students obligation grading