After the Internet, Before Democracy: Competing Norms in Chinese Media and Society

by Johan Lagerkvist

China has lived with the Internet for nearly two decades. Will increased Internet use, with new possibilities to share information and discuss news and politics, lead to democracy, or will it to the contrary sustain a nationalist supported authoritarianism that may eventually contest the global information order?
This book takes stock of the ongoing tug of war between state power and civil society on and off the Internet, a phenomenon that is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034304358
• ISBN13: 9783034304351
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"