Technological Empowerment: The Internet, State, and Society in China

by Yongnian Zheng

Will new information technologies, especially the Internet, bring freedom and democracy to authoritarian China? This study argues that the Internet has brought about new dynamics of socio-political changes in China, and that state power and social forces are transforming in Internet-mediated public space.

Its findings are fourfold. First, the Internet empowers both the state and society. The Internet has played an important role in facilitating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804757372
• ISBN13: 9780804757379
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"