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With a communication-centered framework that brings together communication studies, sociology, and political science, this book explains how people adopt and maneuver mobile technologies as tactics of contention for political mobilization in contentious moments and everyday resistance in contemporary China.
List of contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: Movements in Communication
- 2. Toward a Synthetic Framework
- 3. From Affordances to Repertoires of Contention
- 4. More Than Words
- 5. "To Retweet Each and Every Rumor:" Mobile rumoring as contention
- 6. Conclusion: Beyond China, Moving Mobile
- Appendix: Methodological Reflections
- Bibliography
About the author
Jun Liu, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jun Liu is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research covers political sociology and communication technologies and publishes in the fields of communication, sociology, political science, and computer science. He has won several awards from The Information Technology and Politics Section of American Political Science Association, the International Communication Association's Mobile Communication Interest Group and the International Communication Association Mobile Preconference.
Summary
With a communication-centered framework that brings together communication studies, sociology, and political science, this book explains how people adopt and maneuver mobile technologies as tactics of contention for political mobilization in contentious moments and everyday resistance in contemporary China.
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Jun Liu takes an original approach in this strong contribution to understanding the role of communication in contemporary Chinese politics. Rich empirical discussions bring together different strands of scholarship to elucidate the bigger picture and create a framework that has previously been left mostly implicit.
