1st Edition
Online Society in China Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival
List of Editors and contributors Introduction: Noise, Spectacle, Politics – Carnival in Chinese Cyberspace - David Kurt Herold Part I – Creating the Carnival – Netizens and the State 1. Cultural Convulsions – Examining the Chineseness of Cyber China - Wai-chi, Rodney Chu and Chung-tai Cheng 2. The Internet Police in China: Regulation, Scope and Myths - Xiaoyan Chen and Peng Hwa Ang 3. Grassroots agency in a civil sphere? Re-thinking Internet Control in China - Peter Marolt Part II – Celebrating the Carnival – Fun, Freak-shows, and Masquerades 4. Parody and resistance on the Chinese Internet - Hongmei Li 5. China's many Internets: Participation and digital game play across a changing technology landscape - Silvia Lindtner and Marcella Szablewicz 6. Lost in virtual carnival and masquerade: In-game marriage on the Chinese Internet - Weihua Wu and Xiying Wang PART III – Instrumentalising the Carnival – Rioting as Activism 7. Human Flesh Search Engines: Carnivalesque Riots as components of a 'Chinese Democracy' - David Kurt Herold 8. In search for motivations: Exploring a Chinese Linux user group - Matteo Tarantino 9. Identity vs. anonymity: Chinese netizens and questions of identifiability - Kenneth Farrall and David Kurt Herold 10. Taking urban conservation online: Chinese civic action groups and the Internet - Nicolai Volland Conclusion: Netizens and Citizens, Cyberspace and Modern China - David Kurt Herold
Biography
David Kurt Herold is a Lecturer for Sociology in the Department for Applied Social Sciences (APSS) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Peter Marolt is a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
