TY - BOOK
T1 - China online
T2 - Locating society in online spaces
AU - Marolt, Peter
AU - Herold, David Kurt
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 selection and editorial material, Peter Marolt and David Kurt Herold; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - The Chinese internet is driving change across all facets of social life, and scholars have grown mindful that online and offline spaces have become interdependent and inseparable dimensions of social, political, economic, and cultural activity. This book showcases the richness and diversity of Chinese cyberspaces, conceptualizing online and offline China as separate but inter-connected spaces in which a wide array of people and groups act and interact under the gaze of a seemingly monolithic authoritarian state. The cyberspaces comprising "online China" are understood as spaces for interaction and negotiation that influence "offline China". The book argues that these spaces allow their users greater "freedoms" despite ubiquitous control and surveillance by the state authorities. The book is a sequel to the editors’ earlier work, Online Society in China: Creating, Celebrating and Instrumentalising the Online Carnival (Routledge, 2011).
AB - The Chinese internet is driving change across all facets of social life, and scholars have grown mindful that online and offline spaces have become interdependent and inseparable dimensions of social, political, economic, and cultural activity. This book showcases the richness and diversity of Chinese cyberspaces, conceptualizing online and offline China as separate but inter-connected spaces in which a wide array of people and groups act and interact under the gaze of a seemingly monolithic authoritarian state. The cyberspaces comprising "online China" are understood as spaces for interaction and negotiation that influence "offline China". The book argues that these spaces allow their users greater "freedoms" despite ubiquitous control and surveillance by the state authorities. The book is a sequel to the editors’ earlier work, Online Society in China: Creating, Celebrating and Instrumentalising the Online Carnival (Routledge, 2011).
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84966783425&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315750101
DO - 10.4324/9781315750101
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:84966783425
SN - 9781138809291
BT - China online
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -