Song Shi

Gebundenes Buch

China and the Internet

Using New Media for Development and Social Change

Beschreibung

China and the Internet analyzes how Chinese activists, NGOs, and government offices have used the Internet to fight rural malnutrition, the digital divide, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other urgent problems affecting millions of people. It presents five theoretically-informed case studies of how new media have been used in interventions for development and social change, including how activists battled against COVID-19.

Autor

SONG SHI is a teaching assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information and the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Since 2010, he has been the associate director of the New Media Action Lab at MIT. He has been engaged in Internet research over the past fifteen years, with intimate ties to many of the activists and NGOs analyzed in this book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781978834743
• ISBN-10: 1978834748
• Artikelnr.: 67787253