172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the impact of China's move to the digital sphere of public deliberation and discourse. It recognizes that although there were great hopes that the Internet, not just in China, would bring pluralism, tolerance, civility, and rationality to public debates, and enhance the prospects for democracy in authoritarian countries, in practice the Internet has, besides encouraging these... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Political polarization on international affairs
3. Rights-oriented or responsibility-oriented?: Two subtypes of populism
4. Conspiracy theories in the Chinese society: Contextual analysis and the political, ideological antecedents
5. The dissemination of politically misleading information
6. Constructing threats: Otherness and hate speech
7. An interventionist approach
8. Conclusion
Biography
Tianru Guan is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Wuhan University, China
