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Shifting dynamics of contention in the digital age : mobile communication and politics in China / Jun Liu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liu, Jun, author.
- Series:
- Studies in mobile communication.
- Studies in mobile communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mobile communication systems--Political aspects--China.
- Mobile communication systems.
- Mobile communication systems--Social aspects--China.
- Social media in education--China.
- Social media in education.
- China--Politics and government.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford University Press 2020
- Summary:
- With a communication-centered framework that brings together communication studies, sociology, and political science, this book explains how people adopt and maneuver mobile technologies as tactics of contention for political mobilization in contentious moments and everyday resistance in contemporary China.
- Contents:
- Illustrations 1. Introduction: Movements in Communication 2. Toward a Synthetic Framework 3. From Affordances to Repertoires of Contention: The Missing Link in Understanding the Use of (Mobile) Technologies in Contention 4. More Than Words: The Integrative Power of the Mobile Phone as a "Reciprocal Technology" for Micromobilization 5. "To Retweet Each and Every Rumor"-Mobile Rumoring as Contention 6. Conclusion: Beyond China, Moving Mobile
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-088729-X
- 0-19-088730-3
- 0-19-088728-1
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