Monday, September 29, 2014

Glocalization allows for a critical understanding (Annie Cheung)



Introduction

'One Country, Two Systems' has permitted Hong Kong to maintain its unique character. Long-term success depends on preserving democratic rights. However, when the boundary of 'One Country, Two Systems' is gradually blurred, who save our city? News transfer is undoubtedly a way to raise global awareness. It’s time to FIGHT.

News Title: Hong Kong police clear pro-democracy protesters

News summary


Hong Kong police have cleared the main government compound of pro-democracy demonstrators who had occupied the area on Friday. They arrested more than 60 people, nearly 30 people were hurt. The ruling has prompted a protest movement in the autonomous territory, spearheaded by a group called Occupy Central. The students chanted the slogan: "No fear for civil disobedience" as they were led away. School and university students have joined the protests in recent days.

In fact, the summary is a kind of translation — Appropriation. It means a language meme refers to the textual borrowing strategy in paper writing. In other words, the important sentences and paragraphs from the original news are captured and combined to form the summary.

In the title, the word ‘’Hong Kong’’ is refer to a place which is an autonomous region on the southern coast of China geographically enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea. It’s the place we are now living. Transliteration is used in this name. In Chinese and Cantonese, we called this region ‘’香港‘’. Transliteration can form an essential part of transcription which converts text from one writing system into another. 

For example, ‘’香港’‘ can be transliterated as ‘’Hong Kong’’ , ‘’北京’’ can be transliterated as ‘’Beijing’’ or ‘’Peking’’. This concept is also applied in people’s name. For instance, 劉琳,who is the BBC Hong Kong correspondent, her name is transliterated as ‘’Juliana Liu’’.

Moreover, in the news context, the writer use hybridity to prompt readers understand more about the issue. This concept can be defined as the process that involves a mixture or a combination of two different elements, such as words, videos and pictures. Below is the examples from the news.

    The final few dozen protesters were hemmed in by police before being removed.

    Protesters were removed by police and did not actively resist arrest.

Also, the news editor collects different ideas and opinions of stakeholders. It allows us to think in different ways. And this is knowledge transfer, which is the transfer of knowledge, expertise, skills and capabilities around the world and without boundaries.

"We strongly condemn such action which not only violates the police code of conduct but also tramples on people's freedom of expression," the group said.

The last of the protesters within the compound were removed on Saturday without resisting arrest, the South China Morning Post reported.

The students chanted the slogan: "No fear for civil disobedience" as they were led away, the Hong Kong-based newspaper said.

Actually, knowledge transfer also include the transfer of news and the backup of photos videos. Keeping these source can retaining the truth for our next generation.

Fortunately, the pro-democracy protests in HK have raised international attention, more than 100,000 people signed up a petition in order to ask U.S. President Obama to support democratic elections in the former British colony. Thanks to glocalization, 400 Hong Kong citizens and students joined ‘United for Democracy’ in London. In the meanwhile, rallies in the U.S., Australia, Taiwan, Europe and elsewhere have been held to express solidarity.  






News is a type of genres in cyber culture, get involve with this global village and be a responsible citizen.




























1 comment:

  1. very agree that news is a good way to know more about our world! by Cherry Lee

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