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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
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFD; JFSL3; JHB; KNTX1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
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
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845198312
SKU
V9781845198312
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About Dr Jian Xu
Dr. Jian Xu received his PhD in Media and Communication in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He researches Chinese media and culture with a particular interest in the sociology, culture and politics of new media. He is currently teaching at the University of New South Wales.
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