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The Power of the Internet in China

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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 the tradition of protest in China's incipient civil society provide cultural and social resources to online activism. Even Internet businesses have encouraged contentious activities, generating an unusual synergy between commerce and activism. Yang's book weaves these strands together to create a vivid story of immense social change, indicating a new era of informational politics.

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Series: Contemporary Asia in the World Publisher: Columbia University Press

Kindle Book

  • Release date: June 26, 2009

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  • ISBN: 9780231513142
  • Release date: June 26, 2009

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780231513142
  • File size: 17963 KB
  • Release date: June 26, 2009

PDF ebook

  • ISBN: 9780231513142
  • File size: 2313 KB
  • Release date: June 26, 2009

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English

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 the tradition of protest in China's incipient civil society provide cultural and social resources to online activism. Even Internet businesses have encouraged contentious activities, generating an unusual synergy between commerce and activism. Yang's book weaves these strands together to create a vivid story of immense social change, indicating a new era of informational politics.

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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Columbia University Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: June 26, 2009

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780231513142
    Release date: June 26, 2009

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780231513142
    File size: 17963 KB
    Release date: June 26, 2009

    PDF ebook
    ISBN: 9780231513142
    File size: 2313 KB
    Release date: June 26, 2009

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
    PDF ebook
  • Languages
    English