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China and the Internet: Using New Media for Development and Social Change - Couverture souple

Shi, Song

 
9781978834736: China and the Internet: Using New Media for Development and Social Change
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 197883473X ISBN 13 : 9781978834736
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Two oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of China's Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerce, the other bemoaning state control and measures against the forces of political transformations. This bifurcation obscures the complexity of the dynamic forces operating on the Chinese Internet and the diversity of Internet-related phenomena. China and the Internet analyzes how Chinese activists, NGOs, and government offices have used the Internet to fight rural malnutrition, the digital divide, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other urgent problems affecting millions of people. It presents five theoretically informed case studies of how new media have been used in interventions for development and social change, including how activists battled against COVID-19. In addition, this book applies a Communication for Development approach to examine the use and impact of China's Internet. Although it is widely used internationally in Internet studies, Communication for Development has not been rigorously applied in studies of China's Internet. This approach offers a new perspective to examine the Internet and related phenomena in Chinese society.

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À propos de l'auteur

SONG SHI is a teaching assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information and the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Since 2010, he has been the associate director of the New Media Action Lab at MIT. He has been engaged in Internet research over the past fifteen years, with intimate ties to many of the activists and NGOs analyzed in this book.

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
197883473X
ISBN 13 
9781978834736
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
380
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