Media Events in Web 2.0 China

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 mobilization]) into different types of Chinese media events (ritual celebration, natural disaster, political scandal). The contextualized analysis of online activism thus enables exploration of the spatial, temporal and relational dimensions of Chinese online activism with other social agents.

Aceasta carte este printre primele care folosesc un cadru de „evenimente media” pentru a examina activismul si politica Chinei pe internet si primul studiu al transformarii evenimentelor media din China prin parametrul activismului online. Autorul localizeaza practicile principalelor moduri de activism online din China (shanzhai [jamming cultural]; jurnalism cetatean; si weiguan [mobilizare mediata]) in diferite tipuri de evenimente media chinezesti (celebrare rituala, dezastru natural, scandal politic).