Media Events in Web 2.0 China: Interventions of Online Activism

by Jian Xu

Book Overview

This book is among the first to use a "media events" framework to examine China's Internet activism and politics, and the first study of the transformation of China's media events through the parameter of online activism. The author locates the practices of major modes of online activism in China (shanzhai culture jamming]; citizen journalism; and weiguan mediated mobilisation]) into different types of Chinese media events (ritual celebration, natural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184519831X
• ISBN13: 9781845198312
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"