Georgette Wang - Resume and Abstract

Name	Georgette Wang
Title	Chair Professor at the Department of Journalism National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Brief Introduction	Georgette Wang has published widely in the area of culture, communication and globalization. In recent years she has dedicated in the "reconnaissance" of Chinese researchers in the value of their cultural heritage in developing ideas for social scientific research.
Recent Publications	Wang, G. (2008) Reconceptualizing the role of culture in media globalization: realitytelevision in Greater China. Journal für Entwicklungspolitik (The Austrian Journal of Development Studies), 24(1), 82-98. Wang, G. and Yeh, E.Y. (2005) “Globalization and hybridization in cultural products” International Journal of Cultural Studies, 8: 175-193. Wang, Georgette. (2003) Foreign investment policies, sovereignty and growth. Telecommunications Policy, 27, 267-282. SSCI Liu, C.C., Day, W.W., Sun, S.W., and Wang, G. (2002) User behavior and the globalness of Internet: from a Taiwan users’ perspective. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 7(2). [On-line publication] Wang, Georgette and Shen, Vincent. (2001) “Searching for the Meaning of Searching for Asian Communication Theories.” Asian Journal of Communication, . Wang, Georgette, Servaes, Jan and Goonasekera, Anura. (2000) The New Communications Landscape: Demystifying Media Globalization London : Routledge. Wang, Georgette (1999) “Regulating Network Communication in Asia : A Different Balancing Act?” Telecommunications Policy 23, 277-287. SSCI

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Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Communication Research

Abstract: In recent years“Occidentalism” has been used to describe hostilities and misunderstanding of the “rest” towards the “West”, in contrast to what Said proposed as "Orientalism". The concept, however, lacks the kind of rigor and depth for it to benefit our understanding of why things are the way they are, and how communication researchers in/from the non-Western world can move to the next stage in playing a more active role in academic discourse.
This paper went back to the first encounter of the Islamic, Indian and Chinese civilization with the West, and found striking similarities in the way they responded to Western approaches. These responses marked fundamental differences between the understanding Occident has of the Orient, and vice versa. The implications of this historical background to our current debate on de-Westernizing communication research were explored.