The Internet and social media are pervasive and transformative
forces in contemporary China. Nearly half of China's 1.3 billion
citizens use the Internet, and tens of millions use Sina Weibo, a
platform similar to Twitter or Facebook. Recently, Weixin/Wechat
has become another major form of social media. While these services
have allowed regular people to share information and opinions as
never before, they also have changed the ways in which the Chinese
authorities communicate with the people they rule. China's
party-state now invests heavily in speaking to Chinese citizens
through the Internet and social media, as well as controlling the
speech that occurs in that space. At the same time, those
authorities are wary of the Internet's ability to undermine the
ruling party's power, organize dissent, or foment disorder.
Nevertheless, policy debates and public discourse in China now
regularly occur online, to an extent unimaginable a decade or two
ago, profoundly altering the fabric of China's civil society, legal
affairs, internal politics, and foreign relations. The Internet,
Social Media, and a Changing China explores the changing
relationship between China's cyberspace and its society, politics,
legal system, and foreign relations. The chapters focus on three
major policy areas-civil society, the roles of law, and the
nationalist turn in Chinese foreign policy-and cover topics such as
the Internet and authoritarianism, "uncivil society" online,
empowerment through new media, civic engagement and digital
activism, regulating speech in the age of the Internet, how the
Internet affects public opinion, legal cases, and foreign policy,
and how new media affects the relationship between Beijing and
Chinese people abroad. Contributors: Anne S. Y. Cheung, Rogier
Creemers, Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, Peter Gries, Min Jiang,
Dalei Jie, Ya-Wen Lei, James Reilly, Zengzhi Shi, Derek Steiger,
Marina Svensson, Wang Tao, Guobin Yang, Chuanjie Zhang, Daniel
Xiaodan Zhou.
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