China Online
Locating Society in Online Spaces
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2014
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-138-80929-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Chinese internet is driving change across all facets of social life, and scholars have grown mindful that online and offline spaces have become interdependent and inseparable dimensions of social, political, economic, and cultural activity. This book showcases the richness and diversity of Chinese cyberspaces, conceptualizing online and offline China as separate but inter-connected spaces in which a wide array of people and groups act and interact under the gaze of a seemingly monolithic authoritarian state. The cyberspaces comprising "online China" are understood as spaces for interaction and negotiation that influence "offline China". The book argues that these spaces allow their users greater "freedoms" despite ubiquitous control and surveillance by the state authorities. The book is a sequel to the editors' earlier work, Online Society in China: Creating, Celebrating and Instrumentalising the Online Carnival (Routledge, 2011).
Reviews / Votes
'...this book offers a sense of freshness in dealing with Chinese internet studies that eschews the dogmatic paradigms often found in current literature by proposing a new conceptualization of Chinese internet users as well as an ethnographic 'everyday-life-approach' to the field of study.'Giuseppe Minacapilli, East China Normal University, Asiascape: Digital Asia
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
6 s/w Zeichnungen, 2 s/w Tabellen
2 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-80929-1 (9781138809291)
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Persons
Peter Marolt is a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
David Kurt Herold is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
David Kurt Herold is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Content
Part 1: Deliberating Online Spaces 1. Grounding Online Spaces 2. Users, not Netizens: Spaces and Practices on the Chinese Internet Part 2: Defining Online Spaces 3. "The Corpses were Emotionally Stable": Agency and Passivity on the Chinese Internet 4. Regarding Subjectivities and Social Life on the Screen: The Ambivalences of Spectatorship in the People's Republic of China Part 3: Claiming Online Spaces 5. A Framing Analysis of Chinese Independent Candidates' Strategic Use of Microblogging for Online Campaign and Political Expression 6. China's Dream of High-speed Growth Gets Rear-ended: The "Wenzhou 723" Microblogging Incident and the Erosion of Public Confidence Part 4: Enjoying Online Spaces 7. Gold Farmers and Water Army: Digital Playbor with Chinese Characteristics 8. Chinese Fansub Groups as Communities of Practice: An Ethnography of Online Language Learning Part 5: Shaping Online Spaces 9. Balancing Market and Politics: The Logic of Organizing Cyber Communities in China 10. The Role of Chinese Internet Industry Workers in Creating Alternative Online Spaces