In our current societies, the media are backbone institutions of social life, a tool through which we can strength or deteriorate our democracy. Each society decides if it works exclusively for the market or if it conditions business goals to preserve collective responsibility. The media are nuclear tools to accomplish the right balance between the two.  Unfortunately, nowadays such balance is neither a priority of public media sector nor a private one. The speech of the media has shifted, with consent and complicity of all the stakeholders, and has diminished responsibility criteria and installed partisanship and special interest and business. Reversing this process is an emergency, but the absence of imminent danger, unlike what it happens with the economic crisis, has not forced us to assume our obligations. Consequently, without being aware of it, we are marginalizing media content that can contribute to public service. The dependence between politicians and journalists makes them forget that they must serve the public interest. They are too involved in their own fight to survive and as a result subject the law, subsidies and news to their own interests. This lecture will analyze the mechanisms and trends through which the mass media stabilize irresponsibility and encourage a sensationalist discourse that, in turn, distance the citizen from public affairs.


Mònica Terribas was born in Barcelona (1968). She is a journalist and has been teaching at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra since 1993. She obtained her degree of Journalism at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1991) and a doctoral fellowship by the British Council and La Caixa to study the links between the concept of public sphere and national identity in the media (Ph.D,  University of Stirling, Scotland, 1994). She combined her studies with her professional career as a journalist in the radio news services in 1986 and continued in 1988 in TV3 - Televisió de Catalunya- as a screenwriter, coordinator, editor and presenter of several television programs, among which the late night news program, La Nit al Dia (2002-2008).  In May 2008 she was appointed General Manager of TV3, responsible for the six public channels of the Catalan media corporation up to April 2012.  Since August 2012, she is the editor and CEO of ARA, which includes a newspaper and the net news leader platform. Among other awards, she received the National Award of Journalism and National Award of Culture.

This event is part of The Europe Center's Iberian Studies Program lecture series and the Journalism and Literature series presented by the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, the Stanford Humanities Center and The Europe Center.

In societies with continuous in-and-out migration in relatively short periods the formation of dominant culture comes into shape as "popular". Continental theories for defining people's culture mostly assume some permanent structures (cultural preferences of elites or classes) in modern societies, yet not so successful for explaining the rise of popular cultures in societies like the USA. Turkey, as a country of migratory waves from its birth, is a pristine example of such a process and unique for its elites' interventions into the cultural sphere. The talk is broadly concerns with three dynamics on the formation of Turkish popular culture - demographic transition, elitist cultural policies, and partly oppositional character of people's taste.

Orhan Tekelioğlu is Chair of Department of New Media at Bahçeşehir University (Istanbul, Turkey) and Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennyslvania’s Annenberg School of Communication.  He is a scholar of cultural sociology including such research fields as media consumption, the history of Turkish popular music, the sociological features of Turkish literature, and the cultural politics of the Republican period. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Middle Eastern Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) and his Magisterartium degree in Sociology from the University of Oslo. He taughted in Departments of Political Science and Turkish Literature at the Bilkent University in Ankara, in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University, and acted as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Communication at the Izmir University of Economics. Dr. Tekelioğlu conducts field studies on popular television dramas and reality shows, and history of jazz and popular music in Istanbul. He has published articles in Turkish and in English and submitted papers to numerous national and international congresses. Among his publications are Pop Ekran [Pop Screen, 2013], Pop Yazılar, [Pop Essays, 2006], Foucault Sosyolojisi [Sociology of Foucault, 2003], Şerif Mardin’e Armağan, [A Festschrift for Şerif Mardin, 2005), "Modernizing reforms and Turkish music in the 1930s"  (Turkish Studies, 2001), and “Two Incompatible Positions in the Challenge Against the Individual Subject of Modernity” (Theory& Psychology, 1997).

Co-sponsored by the Mediterranean Studies Forum, Program on Urban Studies, the Europe Center, and Turkish Students Association

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China 2.0 Beijing 2013 Forum at The Stanford Center at Peking University

Keynote Speakers

Image Gary F. Locke U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China

Image Joseph Chen Chairman and CEO of Renren, Inc.

Past China 2.0 Speakers

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The Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) of the Stanford Graduate School of Business will host a China 2.0 Forum in Beijing on Friday, April 12, 2013 at the Stanford Center at Peking University (SCPKU).

While ample capital was raised in recent years, China's VC and PE markets are now facing a flight to quality. Exits are constrained both in China and abroad. At the same time, rapid changes in social, mobile, analytics, and cloud are changing the landscape for business models and strategy. Which ideas and entrepreneurs in China will break out and why? Will the shift to mobile platforms challenge incumbent players and unlock a new generation of digital economy powerhouses? How are developments in China connected with the global digital economy?

This invitation-only half-day event will bring together current and rising leaders from China’s tech, entrepreneur, and investor communities to discuss topics including:

• Big Data: A New Frontier
• Mobile Apps: The Next $100+ Billion Market?
• Fueling Firm Growth: VC and Entrepreneur Dialogue
• China and the Global Digital Economy

The Forum will feature keynote speakers, panels, and interactive sessions followed by a networking reception. Attendees will also be briefed on a recent Stanford study on alumni entrepreneurship and have the opportunity to participate in new research led by SPRIE on entrepreneurship patterns in China.

Agenda

Speakers

• Alex Cheng, Vice President at Baidu
• Duncan Clark, Chairman, BDA China & Senior Advisor to China 2.0, SPRIE, Stanford Graduate School of Business
• DONG Lu (MBA ’04), Founder & CEO, La Miu
• Amy Gu (MBA '09), General Manager, China, Evernote
• Marguerite Gong Hancock, Associate Director, SPRIE, Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Ming LEI (MBA ‘05), Co-Founder, Kuwo
• Richard Lim (MBA ‘88), Managing Director & Co-Founder, GSR Ventures
• Annabelle Yu Long (MBA ’05), Member of Bertelsmann Group Management Committee; Chief Executive, Bertelsmann China Corporate Centre; Managing Director, Bertelsmann Asia Investments
• David Liu (MS ‘98, PhD ‘03), Founder and CEO, RedAtoms
• Hans Tung (BS ‘93), Managing Partner, Qiming Ventures
• Junde YU, Vice President, APAC, App Annie
• ZENG Ming, Chief Strategy Officer, Alibaba Group

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Venue

The Stanford Center at Peking University is located on the site of a former imperial palace on the northeast area of the Peking University campus. Opened in March 2012, SCPKU uniquely combines a traditional Chinese wood courtyard building with a modern, state-of-the-art facility. For map and directions, please click here.

Map of Route from Peking University's Southeast Gate to SCPKU


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Platinum Sponsor Networking Reception
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GSR Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm building world-class technology companies in China. The firm invests primarily in the Internet, wireless, green technology and semiconductors sectors. Founded in 2004, GSR has more than 50 companies in its portfolio and more than $1 billion under management.
Gold Sponsor Tea Break
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Founded in November, 1998, Tencent has grown into one of China's largest provider of comprehensive Internet services. It went public on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in June 2004. Tencent aims to enrich the interactive online experience of Internet users by providing a comprehensive range of Internet and wireless value-added services. Through its various online platforms, including Instant Messaging QQ, web portal QQ.com, the QQ Game Platform under Tencent Games, multi-media social networking service Qzone and wireless portal, Tencent services the largest online community in China and fulfills the user’s needs for communication, information, entertainment and e-Commerce on the Internet.
Silver Sponsors
Image	Alibaba Group is a family of Internet-based businesses which makes it easy for anyone to buy or sell online anywhere in the world. Since its inception, it has developed leading businesses in consumer e-commerce, online payment, business-to-business marketplaces and cloud computing, reaching Internet users in more than 240 countries and regions. Alibaba Group consists of 25 business units and is focused on fostering the development of an open, collaborative and prosperous e-commerce ecosystem.
Image	App Annie is the industry leader in app store analytics and market intelligence for the global app economy. More than 80 percent of the Top 100 iOS publishers use its services, and more than 200,000 apps from over 24,000 unique app publishers rely on App Annie Analytics to track their downloads, revenues, rankings and reviews. App Annie is a privately held global company with offices in Beijing, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and London.
Image	Baidu is the largest Chinese-language search engine. Since its founding in 2000, Baidu's mission has been to provide the best and most equitable way for people to find whatever they're looking for online. Powered by world-class technology and a deep understanding of Chinese language and culture, Baidu now provides intelligent and relevant search results to over five hundred million users. In addition, Baidu has become the largest media platform in China for businesses to effectively reach potential customers online. Baidu continues to innovate to fulfill the needs of users, leveraging it unrivaled cloud infrastructure to deliver the best experience on any device as the shift toward mobile Internet continues in China.
Image	CIB Productions is a Beijing-based television and video production services company staffed with international talent experienced in producing to broadcast standards. Our services include high-end corporate video production, production services for broadcasters and visiting production companies and filming of live events.
Image	Qiming Venture Partners invests in young, fast-growing companies across China in the media and internet, IT, consumer and retail, healthcare, and clean technology sectors. It is an early to growth stage venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. Founded in 2006, Qiming currently manages five funds with over $1.1 billion in assets.
Image	RedAtoms is a mobile social game company committed to producing well-crafted games that connect people. Headquartered in China and with locations in Hong Kong, Tokyo and San Francisco, RedAtoms has produced top ranking card battle and music games, where millions of players interact with each other on a daily basis.

About the China 2.0 Initiative

China 2.0 is a research and education initiative led by SPRIE at the Stanford Graduate School of Business focusing on the drivers and dynamics of the rise of China’s internet industry and its global implications. China 2.0 is a bridge between Stanford/Silicon Valley and China, academia and industry, and current and next generation entrepreneurs on both sides of the Pacific.

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Past China 2.0 Events

• "Fostering Innovation Beyond Boundaries" | Stanford, September 2012
• "Transforming Media and Commerce" | Stanford, September 2011
• CHINA 2.0 Stanford | September 2010
• CHINA 2.0 Beijing | May 2010