Contesting Cyberspace in China - Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience

Zusatztext Han provides a well-written and comprehensive study on Internet censorship and online discourse in China and breaks down the assumption that the Internet is inherently regime challenging. Informationen zum Autor Rongbin Han is an assistant professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. Klappentext No price on cover Zusammenfassung Rongbin Han offers a powerful counterintuitive explanation for China’s survival in the digital age. Han reveals how the state, service providers, and netizens negotiate the limits of discourse, interrogating our assumptions about authoritarian resilience and the internet's democratizing power. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Introduction: Pluralism and Cyberpolitics in China 2. Harmonizing the Internet: State Control Over Online Expression 3. To Comply or to Resist? The Intermediaries’ Dilemma 4. Pop Activism: Playful Netizens in Cyberpolitics 5. Trolling for the Party: State-Sponsored Internet Commentators 6. Manufacturing Distrust: Online Political Opposition and Its Backlash 7. Defending the Regime: The “Voluntary Fifty-Cent Army” 8. Authoritarian Resilience Online: Mismatched Capacity, Miscalculated Threat Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Rongbin Han
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780231184755
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18475-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; China, Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, Internet: general works, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Ethical Issues: Censorship, Ethical issues: censorship / freedom of expression