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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Liz, active 2015, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital divide--China.

Digital divide.

Information policy--China.

Information policy.

Internet--Political aspects--China.

Internet.

Internet--Social aspects--China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2015.

Summary:

"From the Occupy movement in the Western world to the Arab Spring and the role of Twitter in the Middle East, the internet and social media is changing the global landscape. China is next. Despite being a heavily-censored society, China has over 560 million active internet users, more than double that of the USA. In this book, social media expert and China-watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming together of activists, ordinary people and cultural trendsetters on a scale unknown in modern history. News about protests and natural disasters, or gossip and satirical jokes, are practically uncensorable and spread quickly through Weibo - the Chinese Twitter - and the Chinese internet underground. More than that, a grassroots, foundational shift of assumptions and expectations is taking place, as Chinese men and women cast off the communistera 'stability at all costs' mantra and find new forms of selfexpression, creativity and communication with the world."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction; 1. Cover-ups and Uncoverings; What disasters reveal; Grass-roots Weibo celebrities; The human-flesh search-how Weibo brought down the powerful; Crowdsourcing the fight against government corruption; In the fight against the government, there is a fight within the government; 2. Censorship Is the Mother of Subversion; A look to the past; What about Weibo?; A censored internet: good or bad?; "Fuck your mother" and the anti-censorship movement; The digital is political; To the left and right; Refusing to accept censorship: the Reincarnation Party

Crowdsourcing activism: the Food-delivery PartySame-city dinners; 3. Tectonic Shifts: Counterculture Online; Great expectations: who defines success?; Birth of a counterculture; Cash to burn; Full frontal defiance: Weibo activism; Naked feminists, bared blades; Fighting back against abusers; China's favorite porn star; Out of the closet, onto the web; Wedding bells; A study in slash; [REDACTED]; Elementary, my dear, dear Watson; 4. Not in My Backyard: From Screens to Streets; Not on my bookshelf: pushing back against "brainwashing" education; "Patriotic" or propaganda?

Pollution: the smog that broke the camel's backChoking on smog: the Beijing blues; The Southern Weekly incident; 5. I Fought the Law; Weibo and the court of public opinion; The mother: Tang Hui; The kebab vendor: Xia Junfeng; The watermelon vendor: Deng Zhengjia; The rights-defense movement and the New Citizens' Movement; 6. The Crackdown and the Chinese Dream; Silence in the flood: triumphs of censorship in a post-crackdown China; Entertaining ourselves to death; Backlash within the system; The Chinese dream; No more Mr. Nice Guy: from public-opinion guidance to the public-opinion "struggle"

Let 100 flowers bloomNotes; Recommended Reading; Glossary

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857725721

0857725726

9780755619429

0755619420

9780857739216

0857739212

OCLC:

924748692