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<p align="CENTER"><font face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><span style="font-size:17.77777862548828px"><b>The politics of online media in Vietnam&nbsp;</b></span></font></p>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Verdana; line-height:18px">Over the last few years Vietnam has experienced impressive growth in online media uptake including social media and political blogging.
 Much attention has focussed on the government’s continued control over Internet access and crackdowns on users, which have slowed down the transition process. More recently, the government’s loosening of controls on online media use and activism has raised
 the question of whether this positive shift signals a real long-term change of heart or is simply a tactical move to use online media channels for its short-term political objectives.</span></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana"><span style="line-height:18px">As there is some confusion and uncertainty about the nature of this policy shift, it is important not only to look at what’s going on, but also to understand how and why this interesting change has come
 about. For an explanation of this shift and some notion of its implications for future developments, this presentation will put this complex issue in perspective in order to see the deeper political dynamics. Under certain conditions, the inconsistency and
 adhocracy of public policy decisions might have been influenced by factionalism, conflict of interests, pressure and fear. Sometimes, a new opportunity might be an unintended consequence of other events.&nbsp;</span></font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana">Date:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana">&nbsp;Friday 29th August, 2014</span></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana">Time:&nbsp;</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana">15:00-16:30<b></b></span></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana">Location:&nbsp;</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana">S226<b>&nbsp;</b>Seminar Room, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney,&nbsp;<a href="http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?ref=d08h15" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,239); text-decoration:none">John
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Verdana">Dy Nguyen Quang</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Verdana"> graduated from the Diplomatic Academy in Hanoi with a BA (1971) majoring
 in English and international relations. He went to the ANU and graduated with a BA honours (1979) focusing on international and strategic studies at the Department of Political Science. He later went to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow (1992-1993).&nbsp;</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana">After
 three decades of extensive experience in foreign service, he retired in 2005 and worked as a senior advisor for the Fulbright School in Saigon (run by Vietnam Program at Harvard) and later for the public policy training program in Hanoi (run by the ADB Institute
 in Tokyo). Now he lives in Hanoi and works as a part-time freelance consultant.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family:Verdana">T: 0428391122 or 02 90365098 </span><span style="font-family:Verdana"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Verdana">E: </span><a href="UrlBlockedError.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana">fiona.martin@sydney.edu.au</span></a></font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font face="Garamond"><span style="font-family:Verdana">
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</span><span style="font-family:Verdana"><br>
</span></font><font face="Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">M: 0428 391 122<br>
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