| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 234 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The Internet Communication and the Issue of Civil Society -- NPOs in China: Some Issues Concerning Internet Communication / Boxu Yang -- Dot the "I's" and Cross the "T's": A Sociological Interpretation of Chinese Cyberspace and the Qianyuan Grace Wang Incident / Chung-tai Cheng -- Rage and Reflection: Chinese Nationalism Online Between Emotional Venting and Measured Opinion / David Kurt Herold -- pt. 2. Studies on Mobile Phone Uses in Beijing / Beijing Calling ... -- Mobile Communication in Contemporary China / Leopoldina Fortunati, Anna Maria Manganelli, Pui-lam Law and Shanhua Yang -- The "Mobile" Face of Contemporary China / Leopoldina Fortunati, Anna Maria Manganelli, Pui-lam Law and Shanhua Yang -- A Preliminary Study on the Mobile Phone Use of Migrant Workers in Beijing / Ke Yang -- pt. 3. The ICTs and Migrant Workers in Southern China -- Mobile Cultures of Migrant Workers in Southern China: Informal Literacies in the Negotiation of (New) Social Relations of the New Working Women / Angel Mei-yi Lin and Avin H.M. Tong -- Internet Use of Migrant Workers in the Pearl River Delta / Yinni Peng |
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Mobile Phones and the Empowerment of Migrant Workers in Job Search in China's Pearl River Delta / Raymond Ngan and Stephen K. Ma -- Mobile Communication and the Issue of Identity: An Exploratory Study of the Uses of the Camera Phone Among Migrant Workers in Southern China / Pui-lam Law -- pt. 4. New Network and New Identification -- Beyond Privileges: New Media and the Issues of Glocalization in China / Boxu Yang -- The Principled Machine: A Sociopolitical Inquiry of Mobile Voting in Chinese Society / Chung-tai Cheng -- The Use of ICT Products and "White-Collarization" of White-Collar Workers: An Everyday-Life Perspective / Shanhua Yang and Jing Li -- Home and Away: A Case Study of Students and Social Media in Shanghai / Larissa Hjorth and Michael Arnold -- pt. 5. New Connectivities and Chinese Social Context -- Toward a New "Electrical World": Is There a Chinese Technological Sublime? / Matteo Tarantino -- ICT Use with Chinese Characteristics / Wai-chi Rodney Chu and Yinni Peng -- ICTD: Internet Adoption and Usage Amongst Rural Users in China / Jinqiu Zhao |
| Summary |
Annotation The fast diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in China has brought forth new forms of connection among the Chinese and has changed their social lives. Virtual networks have been developed and in turn have led to the formation of networks in the actual world. This collection explores the resultant complications in the relationship between virtual, actual, and local interactions. It discusses various aspects of the implications of the new connectivities on these three types of interactions in China. The topics examined include: the possibility of the development of civil society in China, the implications for the migrant workers in the south, the challenge posed to the traditional social order, and the relationship between the new connectivities and the Chinese social context |
| Analysis |
Social sciences |
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Computer science |
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Communication Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Internet -- Social aspects -- China
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Information technology -- Social aspects -- China
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Cell phones -- Social aspects -- China
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Cell phones -- Social aspects
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Information technology -- Social aspects
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Internet -- Social aspects
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Luo, Peilin, 1957-
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| ISBN |
9789400739109 |
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9400739109 |
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9400739095 |
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9789400739093 |
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