Media and society in networked China / / edited by Jack Linchuan Qiu.

• Superior document: Rethinking Socialism and Reform in China, Volume 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Qiu, Jack Linchuan, 1973-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Rethinking socialism and reform in China ; Volume 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 pages).
• Notes: "These articles were selected and translated into English from Open Times (Kai fang shi dai), an academic journal in Chinese"--Title page verso.

This is a collection of seven essays on media and society in China translated from the leading Chinese-language journal Open Times . Authored mostly by scholars based in China, this volume offers a panoramic view on contemporary Chinese thoughts regarding media industries in a rapidly transforming society, especially the central role played by digital media such as Internet and smart phone. The book consists of three parts: (a) socialist media, transformed; (b) critical events and public interests; and (c) Internet, grassroots and social movements. Together they reflect a wide range of views – left, right, and center – on the past, present, and future of media reform and social transformation in China today.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Jack Linchuan Qiu -- Re-Establish Socialist Cultural Leadership in the Networked Era? State, Intellectuals, and Working-Class Political Communication / Yuezhi Zhao and Changchang Wu -- State Division, Control Networks and the Opportunity Structure for the Coverage of Contentious Issues / Qianfang Xia and Guangfeng Yuan -- The Wu Ying Case and the Partisan Nature of Chinese Intellectuals on Microblogs / Weijia Wang and Lijuan Yang -- News Commentary as a Form of Interest Articulation: A Sociology of Media Perspective / Guiquan Xu and Mengshan Ren -- A World of Black and White: Internet Practices in an Urban Village—Distribution of Social Resources and Ecology of Communication in a Grassroots Society / Wei Ding -- Ernai Ah Zhen: A Story about the Construction of Subjectivity in the Virtual World / Ya Liu -- The Virtual Organization of Social Movement Entrepreneurs: The Internet and New Forms of Protest in Contemporary Chinese Society / Fanxu Zeng , Vincent Guangsheng Huang and Liming Liu -- Index.