Cyber-nationalism in China : : challenging Western media portrayals of Internet censorship in China / / by Ying Jiang.

• VerfasserIn: Jiang, Ying,
• TeilnehmendeR: University of Adelaide Press,
• Place / Publishing House: Adelaide : : The University of Adelaide Press,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 141 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

While Cyber-Nationalism in China examines fundamental questions surrounding the political implications of the Internet in China, it avoids simply predicting that the Internet does or does not lead to democratization. Applying a theoretical approach based on the Foucauldian notion of governmentality, the book builds on current scholarship that has attempted to move beyond examining the dynamics of the socio-cultural and -political use of new media technologies.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Democratic differences between China and the West -- Consumer liberalism -- Part 2 Analysing Chinese anger -- Anger as a display of nationalism -- Chinese anger at the label of censorship -- Chinese anger with Western media's assumptions of political change -- Part 3 Stabilizing China's polity -- Nationalism as a consumer-orientated product -- The current political framework in China.