Digital China's Informal Circuits: Platforms, Labour and Governance

by Elaine Jing Zhao

From open source cultures, piracy, to amateur media and on-demand labour, informal media activities are vibrant in circuits of cultural production, distribution, consumption and labour utilisation in China.　They come in different sizes and shapes, involve multiple actors, often with transnational ties and tensions, and challenge polemic views. Why do these informal activities occur, and how do they evolve? What cultural and social consequences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367661861
• ISBN13: 9780367661861
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 150 Pages