China's information and communications technology revolution : social changes and state responses / edited by Xiaoling Zhang and Yongnian Zheng.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zhang, Xiaoling, 1961-

Zheng, Yongnian.

Series:

China policy series ; 7.

China policy series ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--China.

Information technology.

Freedom of expression.

Freedom of information.

Communication--Technological innovations.

China.

Communication--Technological innovations--China.

Communication.

Internet--China.

Internet.

Social change--China.

Social change.

Freedom of information--China.

Freedom of expression--China.

Physical Description:

vii, 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction / Yongnian Zheng, Xiaoling Zhang 1

ICT development, state and society 2

Digital civil society and digital governance 6

Selective digital control and regime legitimacy 8

The development of ICT in China and its implications for the world 11

Whither China's digital control? 14

1 Historical imagination in the study of Chinese digital civil society / Guobin Yang 17

The logic of complex interdependence and the origins of digital civil society 18

Digital formations and Chinese digital civil society 19

Periodization and the study of the Chinese Internet 20

Two stages of digital civil society development 22

Persistent dynamics of digital civil society 24

New dynamics in the period of expansion 27

Conclusion 29

2 Dancing thumbs: mobile telephony in contemporary China / Zhenzhi Guo, Mei Wu 34

Introduction 34

Mobile telephony and "combined modernization" 35

From pre-industrial to mobile communication: the "great leap forward" in telephone development 38

Social and cultural implications of mobile phone use: three cases 41

Conclusion: the future use of the mobile phone 46

3 Regulating e gao: futile efforts of recentralization? / Bingchun Meng 52

From parody to culture jamming 53

Deconstructing authorship 55

Decentralized production and distribution 58

Carnival in the virtual space 60

Conclusion 62

4 In the name of good governance: e-government, Internet pornography and political censorship in China / Guoguang Wu 68

Web governance in China: institutions and discourses 70

Big-government online with little service 73

How and why web pornography prevails 76

Political censorship, political reform and Internet hypocrisy 79

Sophistications of censorship, failures of governance: conclusions 81

5 Chinese intellectuals and the Internet in the formation of a new collective memory / Junhua Zhang 86

Introduction 86

Collective memory and its functions 87

The development of Chinese blogs 89

China's memory policy 93

The older generation of intellectuals and the official memory policy 95

Findings from a content analysis of Chinese bloggers 96

Conclusion 100

6 From "foreign propaganda" to "international communication": China's promotion of soft power in the age of information and communication technologies / Xiaoling Zhang 103

Introduction 103

From defensive to offensive - changing goals and strategies 103

The expansion of ICT capacity 106

CCTV-9 and China National Network 109

Discussions 113

7 Web engineering in the Chinese context: "let a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend" / Kieron O'Hara 121

Introduction 121

The history and architecture of the Web 121

Properties of the WWW 127

China and the WWW 131

Conclusion: a dilemma 133

8 The Political cost of information control in China: the nation-state and governance / Yongnian Zheng 136

Information distribution and nation-state building 137

Information control and governance 144

Conclusion 152.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415462303

0415462304

9780203881132

0203881133

OCLC:

248537966