The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China / / ed. by Avery Goldstein, Guobin Yang, Jacques deLisle.

The Internet and social media are pervasive and transformative forces in contemporary China. Nearly half of China's 1.3 billion citizens use the Internet, and tens of millions use Sina Weibo, a platform similar to Twitter or Facebook. Recently, Weixin/Wechat has become another major form of soc...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 11 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China
  • Chapter 1. The Coevolution of the Internet, (Un)Civil Society, and Authoritarianism in China
  • Chapter 2. Connectivity, Engagement, and Witnessing on China's Weibo
  • Chapter 3. New Media Empowerment and State-Society Relations in China
  • Chapter 4. The Privilege of Speech and New Media: Conceptualizing China's Communications Law in the Internet Age
  • Chapter 5. Embedding Law into Politics in China's Networked Public Sphere
  • Chapter 6. Microbloggers' Battle for Legal Justice in China
  • Chapter 7. Public Opinion and Chinese Foreign Policy: New Media and Old Puzzles
  • Chapter 8. Social Media, Nationalist Protests, and China's Japan Policy: The Diaoyu Islands Controversy, 2012-13
  • Chapter 9. Going Out and Texting Home: New Media and China's Citizens Abroad
  • Chapter 10. Images of the DPRK in China's New Media: How Foreign Policy Attitudes Are Connected to Domestic Ideologies in China
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Ackowledgments