Media events in web 2.0 China : interventions of online activism / Jian Xu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Xu, Jian (Teacher of Chinese), author.

Series:

Sussex library of Asian studies.

The Sussex library of Asian and Asian American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Political aspects--China.

Internet.

Internet--Social aspects--China.

Mass media--Political aspects--China.

Mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects--China.

Online journalism--China.

Online journalism.

Political participation--China.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, mainstream media and civil society. Analysis reveals Internet politics in China on three interrelated levels: the individual, the discursive and the institutional. Contemporary cases, rich in empirical research data and interdisciplinary theory, demonstrate that the alternative and activist use of the Internet has intervened into and transformed conventional Chinese media events in various types of agents, their agendas and performances, and the subsequent and corresponding political impact. The Party-market controlled Chinese media events have become more open, contentious and deliberative in the Web 2.0 era due to the active participation of ordinary Chinese people aided by the Internet.

Contents:

Introduction

Alternative media and online activism

Media celebration: Shanzhai media culture as media intervention

Media disaster: citizen journalism as alternative crisis communication

Media scandal: online weiguan as networked collective action

Conclusion: Internet interventionism and deliberative politics in China's web 2.0 era.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78284-828-2

OCLC:

936529832