Becoming Digital Citizens - Disability, Icts, and Citizenship in Contemporary China

This book explores the relationship between disability, citizenship, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Chinese context. It offers new insights into the norms and practices of digital, Chinese, and disabled citizenship that widen the scope of disability and citizenship studies and highlights the potential and challenges of using technologies to improve inclusion and promote social justice.

List of contents

• Preface


• Acknowledgement


• List of Figures


• List of Tables


• List of Abbreviations


• Introduction: At the intersection of disability, ICTs, and citizenship


• 1: Researching complexities in transforming China


• 2: What is it like to be disabled in China?: Meanings, entitlements, and embodied experience


• 3: 'Going out' in cyberspace


• Four: Working in the digital economy


• Five: Joining China's internet politics


• Six: Reconstructing disability identity and culture


• Conclusion: Remaking citizenship: technology and disability in a changing China


• Appendix


• References


• Index

About the author

Yuanyuan Qu is Lecturer in the School of Ethnology and Sociology at Minzu University of China. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Glasgow, where her research focused on disability and internet use in China (20132017). Qu then worked as a Research Officer in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (20182021). Qu's research interests lie in the areas of disability studies, science and technology studies, social welfare and care, and civil society, with a particular focus on China.

Product details

• Authors: Yuanyuan Qu, Yuanyuan (Lecturer Qu
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.08.2025
• EAN: 9780197774823
• ISBN: 978-0-19-777482-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Communication Studies, Disability: social aspects, Social research & statistics, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Social research and statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies