Influences Of New Media Technology On Knowledge-Creation In China

This paper examines the role new media technology plays in knowledge creation in China. Innovation is assessed at a micro-level by comparing two classrooms at Fudan University in Shanghai. This study will evaluate how students, both Chinese and foreign, think, learn and perceive the world around them, while at the same time, evaluating impacts of current internet policy on innovation in China. It is situated within a larger discussion of domestic policy over the net and how it implicates internet freedom and how students learn. My research will be set within a specific theoretical framework as discussed by Joseph Stiglitz on China's growing'knowledge economy'combined with Baudrillard's theory of Simulacra and Simulation (1985). The basis for this research is to build upon a broader understanding of technology and the role it plays in how we learn.