Elaine Jing Zhao

Digital China's Informal Circuits

Platforms, Labour and Governance

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Produktbeschreibung

The book provides a vivid account of the ongoing digital transformation in China. It discusses how digital platforms navigate formal and informal boundaries at operational and discursive levels; how different users are integral to the formal/informal interface; and how state and non-state actors intervene in governing formal/informal dynamics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 419g
• ISBN-13: 9781138737105
• ISBN-10: 1138737100
• Artikelnr.: 55077518

Autorenporträt

Elaine Jing Zhao is Senior Lecturer in the School of the Arts and Media, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Repackaged informality and norm-based governance: from
shanzhaiji to open source-powered smartphones
Chapter 3 In and out of shadows: negotiating boundaries and legitimacy in
mobile app distribution
Chapter 4 Swinging pendulums: from the "Wild West" to content matrix on
online video platforms
Chapter 5 Aspirations, precarity and agency: creative labour in the
formalising internet literature market
Chapter 6 Between entrenched and smart informalities: ride-hailing
platforms and governance challenges
Chapter 7 Conclusion