2013年11月15日，南非罗德斯大学政治与国际关系学院院长Paul-Henri Bischoff前来我院，开启一个月的访问计划。11月19-20日，教授为本科学生讲述主题为“南非及其媒体业”的讲座。讲座由我院政治学博士后流动站外国博士后Tu（黄石秀）主持。

这场别开生面的课堂以介绍南非的五大媒体为开篇。随后，教授通过引用具体的数据为例，阐述了南非政府急需对媒体行业进行相应改革的观点。继而，教授表示媒体与政府两者存在的分歧很大程度上显示出了南非的经济精英与政治精英之间的矛盾。而当今南非的媒体正在往政治化、媚俗化、全球化这三个方向迈进，当中既有可喜之处又有令人担忧的地方。

授课期间，教授不时加入诙谐幽默的话语，为课堂增添了活跃的气氛，引起台下的踊跃提问，其对学术问题严谨的辩证阐述也使同学们的疑问逐个获得了解答。在教授的课堂上，同学们不仅对南非及其媒体业加深了认识，更对其社会经济政治改革产生了浓厚的兴趣，可谓获益匪浅。

 

 

讲座现场

嘉宾简介：

Paul Henry Bischoff教授是南非罗德斯大学政治与国际问题学系的系主任和教授，曾来访我院与师生交流，其生动激情的讲学受到了广大师生的好评。

Professor Bischoff’s lecture aims to give students an overview of South Africa’s media. He begins by describing the five major “opinion makers” in South Africa today, which are the Mail and Guardian, City Press, Sunday Times, Business Day and Daily Maverick. The fact that only 14% of the media companies are owned by black people and 4.4% have women as their top decision-makers makes the South African government think that the media industry needs to be transformed. The three vehicles driving transformation include Affirmative Action, Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and Employment Equity Targets, which the professor further elaborates during his lecture. The contest and competition between the media and state reveal the tension between the economic and political elites in the country. Borrowing Herman Wasserman’s point of view, Bischoff highlights three key trends of South Africa’s media today: as the media becoming a political player, turning towards tabloidization and being structurally transformed by globalization.

Guest Introduction：
Professor Paul-Henri Bischoff is the head of the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University in South Africa. Apart from his research interests in foreign policy and international galvanization, he participates as an international election observer, having observed elections in Africa, Melanesia, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia since 1989.