China Online Locating Society in Online Spaces [Hardcover]

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).

Part 1: Deliberating Online Spaces  1. Grounding Online Spaces Peter Marolt  2. Users, not Netizens: Spaces and Practices on the Chinese Internet David Kurt Herold  Part 2: Defining Online Spaces  3. The Corpses were Emotionally Stable: Agency and Passivity on the Chinese Internet Jonathan Benney  4. Regarding Subjectivities and Social Life on the Screen: The Ambivalences of Spectatorship in the Peoples Republic of China Alex Cockain  Part 3: Claiming Online Spaces  5. A Framing Analysis of Chinese Independent Candidates Strategic Use of Microblogging for Online Campaign and Political Expression Yu Liu and Qinghua Yang  6. Chinas Dream of High-speed Growth Gets Rear-ended: The Wenzhou 723 Microblogging Incident and the Erosion of Public Confidence G?nter Schucher and Maria lS&