Power of the Internet in China Citizen Activism Online

Name: Power of the Internet in China Citizen Activism Online
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ISBN: 9780231144216

ISBN-10: 0231144210

ISBN-13: 9780231144216

Edition: 2011

Authors: Guobin Yang

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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 an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, conflict, and control. Like many other contemporary protest forms in China and the world, 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. Transnationalism and…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.91" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Online Activism in an Age of Contention



The Politics of Digital Contention



The Rituals and Genres of Contention



The Changing Style of Contention



The Business of Digital Contention



Civic Associations Online



Utopian Realism in Online Communities



Transnational Activism Online


Conclusion: China's Long Revolution


Afterword to the Paperback Edition


Notes


Bibliography


Index