ISBN:
9781138809291
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (200 p)
Series Statement:
Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series
Parallel Title:
Print version China Online : Locating Society in Online Spaces
DDC:
302.23/10951
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Chinese internet is driving change across all facets of social life, and scholars have grown mindful that online and offline spaces have become interdependent and inseparable dimensions of social, political, economic, and cultural activity. This book showcases the richness and diversity of Chinese cyberspaces, conceptualizing online and offline China as separate but inter-connected spaces in which a wide array of people and groups act and interact under the gaze of a seemingly monolithic authoritarian state. The cyberspaces comprising ""online China"" are understood as spaces for interacti
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editors and authors; PART I Deliberating online spaces; 1 Grounding online spaces; 2 Users, not netizens: spaces and practices on the Chinese Internet; PART II Defining online spaces; 3 "The corpses were emotionally stable": agency and passivity on the Chinese Internet; 4 Regarding subjectivities and social life on the screen: the ambivalences of spectatorship in the People's Republic of China; PART III Claiming online spaces; 5 A framing analysis of Chinese independent candidates' strategic use of microblogging for online campaign and political expression
Description / Table of Contents:
6 China's dream of high-speed growth gets rear-ended: the "Wenzhou 723" microblogging incident and the erosion of public confidencePART IV Enjoying online spaces; 7 Gold farmers and water army: digital playbour with Chinese characteristics; 8 Chinese fansub groups as communities of practice: an ethnography of online language learning; PART V Shaping online spaces; 9 Balancing market and politics: the logic of organizing cyber communities in China; 10 The role of Chinese Internet industry workers in creating alternative online spaces; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
