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The Power of the Internet in China - Citizen Activism Online (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,124
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The Power of the Internet in China - Citizen Activism Online (Hardcover): Guobin Yang

The Power of the Internet in China - Citizen Activism Online (Hardcover)

Guobin Yang; Afterword by Guobin Yang

Series: Contemporary Asia in the World

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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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Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Contemporary Asia in the World
Release date: June 2009
First published: June 2009
Authors: Guobin Yang
Afterword by: Guobin Yang
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14420-9
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Political control & influence > Public opinion & polls
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LSN: 0-231-14420-2
Barcode: 9780231144209

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