China's information and communications technology revolution : social changes and state responses /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2009. |
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| Description: | vii, 160 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | China policy series ; 7 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7795651 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- ICT development, state and society
- Digital civil society and digital governance
- Selective digital control and regime legitimacy
- The development of ICT in China and its implications for the world
- Whither China's digital control?
- 1. Historical imagination in the study of Chinese digital civil society
- The logic of complex interdependence and the origins of digital civil society
- Digital formations and Chinese digital civil society
- Periodization and the study of the Chinese Internet
- Two stages of digital civil society development
- Persistent dynamics of digital civil society
- New dynamics in the period of expansion
- Conclusion
- 2. Dancing thumbs: mobile telephony in contemporary China
- Introduction
- Mobile telephony and "combined modernization"
- From pre-industrial to mobile communication: the "great leap forward" in telephone development
- Social and cultural implications of mobile phone use: three cases
- Conclusion: the future use of the mobile phone
- 3. Regulating e gao: futile efforts of recentralization?
- From parody to culture jamming
- Deconstructing authorship
- Decentralized production and distribution
- Carnival in the virtual space
- Conclusion
- 4. In the name of good governance: e-government, Internet pornography and political censorship in China
- Web governance in China: institutions and discourses
- Big-government online with little service
- How and why web pornography prevails
- Political censorship, political reform and Internet hypocrisy
- Sophistications of censorship, failures of governance: conclusions
- 5. Chinese intellectuals and the Internet in the formation of a new collective memory
- Introduction
- Collective memory and its functions
- The development of Chinese blogs
- China's memory policy
- The older generation of intellectuals and the official memory policy
- Findings from a content analysis of Chinese bloggers
- Conclusion
- 6. From "foreign propaganda" to "international communication": China's promotion of soft power in the age of information and communication technologies
- Introduction
- From defensive to offensive - changing goals and strategies
- The expansion of ICT capacity
- CCTV-9 and China National Network
- Discussions
- 7. Web engineering in the Chinese context: "let a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend"
- Introduction
- The history and architecture of the Web
- Properties of the WWW
- China and the WWW
- Conclusion: a dilemma
- 8. The Political cost of information control in China: the nation-state and governance
- Information distribution and nation-state building
- Information control and governance
- Conclusion
- Index
