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Author Yang, Guobin, author.

Title The power of the internet in China : citizen activism online / Guobin Yang
Edition Paperback edition
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2011
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 318 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary Asia in the world
Contemporary Asia in the world.
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
Internet -- Political aspects -- China
Internet -- Social aspects -- China
Internet -- China
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Internet
Internet -- Political aspects
Internet -- Social aspects
Political participation -- Technological innovations
China
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231513142
0231513143