| The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online Contributor(s): Yang, Guobin (Author), Yang, Guobin (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0231144202 ISBN-13: 9780231144209 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Political Advocacy - History | Asia - China - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 303.483 |
| LCCN: 2008049149 |
| Series: Contemporary Asia in the World |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Yang, Guobin: - Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociologu at University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books, including The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (Columbia University Press, 2017) and The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (Columbia University Press, 2009).Yang, Guobin: - Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociologu at University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books, including The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (Columbia University Press, 2017) and The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (Columbia University Press, 2009). |