1st Edition

Structural Change and Evolution of China’s Internet Society

By Liu Shaojie Copyright 2023
272 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This title investigates China’s network society, both its online cyber society and offline real world society, by analyzing the trends and social foundations of society as network and the social challenges it poses, as well as structural changes in social space and social interaction. The first part of the book examines how network society in China forms and develops, analyzing the challenges... Read more

Part I: Realistic Foundation of Chinese Network Society  1. Development Process of Chinese Network Society  2. Practical Nature and Perceptual Order of Network Society  3. Transactions in Network Economy  4. Power Restructuring in Network Society  5. Network-based Social Governance  Part II: Spatial Change of Chinese Network Society  6. From Urban Space Theory to Network Space Theory  7. Network Space of Absence and Presence  8. Unprecedentedly Active Absence Interaction  9. The Rise in Status of Mediated Experience  10. Spatial Representation of Network Society  11. Social Identity of Network Aggregation

Biography

Liu Shaojie is a professor at the Research Center for Sociological Theory and Methods of Renmin University of China and a chair professor at Anhui University, China. His main research fields include network sociology, theoretical sociology, and economic sociology.