Online Society in China: Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival

ISBN-13: 9780415565394 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

David Herold;Peter Wolfgang Marolt

Opis

The Chinese Internet is more than merely a technological or media extension of offline Chinese society. This book examines Chinese people on the Internet and what they actually do on the Internet, discussing a wide range of different activities.

Spis treści

List of Editors and Contributors.  Introduction: Noise, Spectacle, Politics: Carnival in Chinese Cyberspace David Kurt Herold  Part 1: Creating the Carnival: Netizens and the State  1. Cultural Convulsions: Examining the Chineseness of Cyber China Wai-chi, Rodney Chu and Chung-tai Cheng  2. The Internet Police in China: Regulation, Scope and Myths Xiaoyan Chen and Peng Hwa Ang  3. Grassroots Agency in a Civil Sphere? Re-Thinking Internet Control in China Peter Marolt  Part 2: Celebrating the Carnival: Fun, Freak-shows, and Masquerades  4. Parody and Resistance on the Chinese Internet Hongmei Li  5. China's many Internets: Participation and Digital Game Play across a Changing Technology Landscape Silvia Lindtner and Marcella Szablewicz  6. Lost in Virtual Carnival and Masquerade: In-Game Marriage on the Chinese Internet Weihua Wu and Xiying Wang  Part 3: Instrumentalising the Carnival: Rioting as Activism  7. Human Flesh Search Engines: Carnivalesque Riots as Components of a 'Chinese Democracy' David Kurt Herold  8. In Search for Motivations: Exploring a Chinese Linux User Group Matteo Tarantino  9. Identity vs. Anonymity: Chinese Netizens and Questions of Identifiability Kenneth Farrall and David Kurt Herold  10. Taking Urban Conservation Online: Chinese Civic Action Groups and the Internet Nicolai Volland.  Conclusion: Netizens and Citizens, Cyberspace and Modern China David Kurt Herold

O autorze

David Kurt Herold is a Lecturer for Sociology in the Department for Applied Social Sciences (APSS) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Peter Marolt is a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.