Let 100 voices speak : how the Internet is transforming China and changing everything / Liz Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Liz, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Social aspects--China.

Internet.

Internet--Political aspects--China.

Information policy--China.

Information policy.

Digital divide--China.

Digital divide.

Internet--Political aspects.

Internet--Social aspects.

China.

Physical Description:

212 pages ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Let one hundred voices speak

Place of Publication:

London I.B. Tauris, 2015.

Summary:

From the Occupy movement in the Western world to the role of Twitter in the Middle East, the internet is changing the global landscape. China is next. Despite being a heavily censored society, China has over 600 million active internet users. With the help of inventive memes and Chinese puns, political news, gossip and satire have spread through the internet underground, becoming practically impossible to contain. Social media expert and China-watcher Liz Carter here tells the story of a coming together of activists and ordinary people on an unprecedented scale. A grassroots shift of assumptions and expectations has taken place, as Chinese men and women have rejected the party-line, top-down status quo and sought out new forms of self-expression and communication with the world. Let 100 Voices Speak is the must-read guide to a changing China, and the future of protest and censorship in the internet age. Book jacket.

Contents:

Cover-ups and uncoverings

Censorship is the mother of subversion

Tectonic shifts : counterculture online

Not in my backyard : from screens to streets

I fought the law

The crackdown and the Chinese dream.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-200) and index.

ISBN:

9781780769851

1780769857

OCLC:

920035436

Publisher Number:

60002031286