Regulating Social Media in China: Foucauldian Governmentality and the Public Sphere

ISBN-13: 9781433152719 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 198 str.

Bei Guo

Opis

This book is the first in-depth study to apply the Foucauldian notion of governmentality to China's field of social media. Regulating Social Media in China provokes readers to contemplate the democratizing potential of social media in China.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - Theoretical Foundations: Public Sphere and Governmentality - Background of China's Internet and Social Media - Transformative Regulatory Measures of Weibo - Weibo Broadcast of the Bo Xilai Trial - Patriotic Citizenry in China's Weibo Community - Conclusion.

O autorze

Bei Guo is a lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication at Shaanxi Normal University (China). She acquired her PhD in the Department of Media, School of Humanities, at the University of Adelaide (Australia). Her research focuses on political communication, public relations, and new media.