Rongbin Han

Contesting Cyberspace in China

Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience

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Produktbeschreibung

Rongbin Han offers a powerful counterintuitive explanation for Chinaâ s survival in the digital age. Han reveals how the state, service providers, and netizens negotiate the limits of discourse, interrogating our assumptions about authoritarian resilience and the internet's democratizing power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780231184755
• ISBN-10: 0231184751
• Artikelnr.: 50200798

Autorenporträt

Rongbin Han

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction: Pluralism and Cyberpolitics in China
2. Harmonizing the Internet: State Control Over Online Expression
3. To Comply or to Resist? The Intermediaries' Dilemma
4. Pop Activism: Playful Netizens in Cyberpolitics
5. Trolling for the Party: State-Sponsored Internet Commentators
6. Manufacturing Distrust: Online Political Opposition and Its Backlash
7. Defending the Regime: The "Voluntary Fifty-Cent Army"
8. Authoritarian Resilience Online: Mismatched Capacity, Miscalculated
Threat
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index