This book is among the first to use a "media events" framework to
examine China's Internet activism and politics, and the first study
of the transformation of China's media events through the parameter
of online activism. The author locates the practices of major modes
of online activism in China (shanzhai [culture jamming]; citizen
journalism; and weiguan [mediated mobilisation]) into different
types of Chinese media events (ritual celebration, natural
disaster, political scandal). The contextualised analysis of online
activism thus enables exploration of the spatial, temporal and
relational dimensions of Chinese online activism with other social
agents -- such as the Party-state, mainstream media and civil
society. Analysis reveals Internet politics in China on three
interrelated levels: the individual, the discursive and the
institutional. Contemporary cases, rich in empirical research data
and interdisciplinary theory, demonstrate that the alternative and
activist use of the Internet has intervened into and transformed
conventional Chinese media events in various types of agents, their
agendas and performances, and the subsequent and corresponding
political impact. The Party-market controlled Chinese media events
have become more open, contentious and deliberative in the Web 2.0
era due to the active participation of ordinary Chinese people
aided by the Internet.
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