Description |
1 online resource (xv, 318 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Contemporary Asia in the world |
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Contemporary Asia in the world.
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Contents |
Introduction -- Online activism in an age of contention -- The politics of digital contention -- The rituals and genres of contention -- The changing style of contention -- The business of digital contention -- Civic associations online -- Utopian realism in online communities -- Transnational activism online -- Conclusion: China's long revolution -- Afterword to the paperback edition |
Summary |
Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, conflict, and control. Like many other contemporary protest forms in China and the world, Yang argues, Chinese online activism derives its methods and vitality from multiple and intersecting forces |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Political participation -- Technological innovations -- China
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Internet -- Political aspects -- China
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Internet -- Social aspects -- China
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Internet -- China
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Internet
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Internet -- Political aspects
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Internet -- Social aspects
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Political participation -- Technological innovations
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China
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780231513142 |
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0231513143 |
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