The power of the internet in China : citizen activism online

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Label

The power of the internet in China : citizen activism online

Title remainder

citizen activism online

Statement of responsibility

Guobin Yang

Creator

• Yang, Guobin

Author

• Yang, Guobin

Subject

• Internet -- China
• Internet -- Political aspects
• Internet -- Political aspects -- China
• Internet -- Social aspects
• Internet -- Social aspects -- China
• Political participation -- Technological innovations
• Political participation -- Technological innovations -- China
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
• TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects
• China
• Internet

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Contemporary Asia in the world

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

303.48330951

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

JQ1516

LC item number

.Y35 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Contemporary Asia in the world