The Power of the Internet in China

Guobin Yang is an associate professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University and is coeditor, with Ching Kwan Lee, of Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China.

出版者:Columbia University Press

作者:Guobin Yang

页数:320 pages

出版时间:2009-6-26

价格:USD 90.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780231144209

丛书系列:Contemporary Asia In The World

图书标签:杨国斌互联网传播学社会学海外中国研究政治学公民运动Internet

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Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Despite efforts to control these activities, online activism has been an agent of immense social change, allowing common citizens to disseminate content and openly challenge the authority of political and economic elites.

Guobin Yang’s pioneering study follows the rise of this dynamic protest and the forces that keep it relevant and unique. Online activism encompasses an innovative range of rituals, genres, and styles, and state efforts to constrain it have only led to more creative acts of subversion. Internet businesses have encouraged these contentious activities, generating an unusual synergy between capitalism and civil organizations that sponsor critique. Based on ten years of meticulous research and grounded in theories of social movements and the public sphere, Yang’s study emphasizes the mutual shaping of technology and society and highlights the important role of a transnational diaspora in the making of a Chinese Internet culture. In conclusion, Yang argues that online activism reflects important structural changes in contemporary China and points to a new era of informational politics.

读后感

哎，怎么说呢，可能是来到了一个更专制的时代吧，所以之前听说了杨老师书里的结论，对之就不是很认同，因为最近要做相关的文献，找来看了一下，果然比较失望。 简要的说几点自己的批评。 总的来说，这是每一块儿都很重要，但是在每一块谈的都很一般的书。 首...  

approach：social movement, politics, partly cultural studies 目的：通过对Online activism的分析，来理解中国社会结构变化中的抗争与控制。 分析框架：多元互动 multi-interactionism (state, culture, civil society, market, transnational ) 优点： 1. 如本书开头...  

用户评价

算是打开了研究视野

the book offers rich information, but the explanations and interpretations on the phenomena are not solid.

描述和介绍多，解释和探究少。

杨国斌教授写的。

为什么“过时”的批评是不适宜用在这本书（或者这类书）上？引用我导师的话...这些研究体现了当互联网刚出生时期的样貌。而我认为其中有几章的理论和概念提出地特别得好。