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Present Day Monopoly of Knowledge in Hong Kong???

Facebook and social media

Conclusion

  • one of the main choices for social networking
  • headlines, information, and links found on social media
  • collecting data: recommended pages, ads, and friends
  • monopolies of knowledge occur when knowledge/power is centralized
  • exists in different ways and aspects in current day society

Effects of the printing press

  • many reforms
  • spread of new ideas that challenged old ones
  • sudden emergence of beliefs in certain freedoms

Facebook and social media

  • different interpretation of ideas
  • different views
  • new beliefs that challenge old ones

TVB

  • economic advantage
  • monopoly of knowledge:
  • one of the only free-to-air channels that provides news
  • one POV

Free-to-air TV licensees

Information that could be refused

  • Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK)
  • Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB)
  • HK Television Entertainment (HKTVE)

Code on Access to Information

(govn't)

  • Defense and security
  • External affairs
  • Nationality, immigration and consular matters
  • Law enforcement, legal proceedings and public safety
  • Damage to the environment
  • Management of the economy
  • Management and operation of the public service
  • Internal discussion and advice
  • Public employment and public appointments
  • Improper gain or advantage
  • Research, statistics and analysis
  • Third party information
  • Privacy of the individual
  • Business affairs
  • Premature requests

ATV

government records

procedures

  • information that must be provided for the general public by civil servants
  • routinely published/released
  • can be requested (must respond in 21 days)

Drawbacks

  • free-to-air services (includes news)
  • April 1 2015: Executive council announced that license will not be renewed
  • April 1 2016: transmission ceased

services

  • judicial review not provided
  • does not apply to administrative tribunals and courts
  • information may be refused

Documents

The Church and State in the 1400s

What is a monopoly of knowledge?

Objectives

  • church and state were one
  • monopoly of knowledge in the case of religion
  • texts were in Latin
  • priest sold indulgences (papers that will reduce time in purgatory)

Invention of the Printing Press

  • knowledge: information, literacy, science
  • centralization of power
  • power to control information flow
  • often uses dominant media
  • often has ability to decide what is legitimate
  • define monopoly of knowledge
  • 1400s monopoly of knowledge and the printing press
  • monopolies of knowledge in HK
  • Facebook
  • disruptive technology?
  • at first, welcomed by the church
  • put to use for the church's means:
  • indulgences
  • pamphlets

Monopoly of Knowledge

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