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Media Events in Web 2.0 China
Dr Jian Xu
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Description for Media Events in Web 2.0 China
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFD; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845196356
SKU
V9781845196356
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99-50
About Dr Jian Xu
Dr Jian Xu is a Senior Lecturer in Communication in the School of Communication & Creative Arts, Deakin University, Australia. He is the co-convenor of the Asian Media, Culture and Society Research Group at Deakin. He is the founding co-editor of the book series ‘Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies’ with Bloomsbury. Jian specialises in Chinese media, communication and celebrity studies ... Read more
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