1st Edition

Baidu Geopolitical Dynamics of the Internet in China

By ShinJoung Yeo Copyright 2023
110 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

110 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

110 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

An in-depth exploration of the political economy of the Chinese technology company Baidu which, along with China’s other tech giants Alibaba and Tencent, has emerged as a leading global Internet company. Baidu – not Google – is the dominant search company in China, the largest Internet market in the world, whose impact on the political economy is no longer limited to China, but the broader... Read more
1. History  2. Economic profile  3. Political profile  4. Cultural profile

Biography

ShinJoung Yeo is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. Her research focuses on the political economy of communication and information centered around labor, policy, and geopolitics. She has published several works including "Tech Companies and Public Health Care in the Ruins of COVID," "Access Now, but for Whom and at What Cost?," "Artists in Tech Cities," and "Science and Engineering in Digital Capitalism."