Power of the Internet in China - Citizen Activism Online

Informationen zum Autor Guobin Yang is an associate professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College! Columbia University. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University and is coeditor! with Ching Kwan Lee! of Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China. Klappentext 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 contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace! delineating a dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity! community! conflict! and control. Like many contemporary protest forms! Yang argues! Chinese online activism derives its methods and vitality from multiple and intersecting forces! and state efforts to constrain it have only led to more creative acts of subversion. Yang's vivid story exemplifies this new era of informational politics! and a new afterword provides a detailed analysis of recent developments. Zusammenfassung 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 contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace! delineating a dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity! community! conflict! and control. Like many contemporary protest forms! Yang argues! Chinese online activism derives its methods and vitality from multiple and intersecting forces! and state efforts to constrain it have only led to more creative acts of subversion. Yang's vivid story exemplifies this new era of informational politics! and a new afterword provides a detailed analysis of recent developments. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Online Activism in an Age of Contention2. The Politics of Digital Contention3. The Rituals and Genres of Contention4. The Changing Style of Contention5. The Business of Digital Contention6. Civic Associations Online7. Utopian Realism in Online Communities8. Transnational Activism OnlineConclusion: China's Long RevolutionNotesBibliographyIndex ...

Product details

• Authors: G Yang, Guobin Yang, Guobin (University of Pennsylvania) Yang, Yang Guobin
• Assisted by: Yang Guobin (Afterword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.01.2011
• EAN: 9780231144216
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14421-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Columbia University Press; Contemporary Asia in the World; Contemporary Asia in the World
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; China, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political activism, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Political activism / Political engagement, popular culture; media studies; civil rights