1st Edition
China Online Locating Society in Online Spaces
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 People’s 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. China’s Dream of High-speed Growth Gets Rear-ended: The “Wenzhou 723” Microblogging Incident and the Erosion of Public Confidence Günter Schucher and Maria Bondes Part 4: Enjoying Online Spaces 7. Gold Farmers and Water Army: Digital Playbour with Chinese Characteristics Ge Jin and David Kurt Herold 8. Chinese Fansub Groups as Communities of Practice: An Ethnography of Online Language Learning Xiao Liu and Gabriele de Seta Part 5: Shaping Online Spaces 9. Balancing Market and Politics: The Logic of Organizing Cyber Communities in China Cuiming Pang 10. The Role of Chinese Internet Industry Workers in Creating Alternative Online Spaces Bingqing Xia and Helen Kennedy
Biography
Peter Marolt is a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
David Kurt Herold is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
'...this book offers a sense of freshness in dealing with Chinese internet studies that eschews the dogmatic paradigms often found in current literature by proposing a new conceptualization of Chinese internet users as well as an ethnographic ‘everyday-life-approach’ to the field of study.'
Giuseppe Minacapilli, East China Normal University, Asiascape: Digital Asia
