Full Description
This is a collection of seven essays on media and society in China translated from the leading Chinese-language journal Open Times. Authored mostly by scholars based in China, this volume offers a panoramic view on contemporary Chinese thoughts regarding media industries in a rapidly transforming society, especially the central role played by digital media such as Internet and smart phone. The book consists of three parts: (a) socialist media, transformed; (b) critical events and public interests; and (c) Internet, grassroots and social movements. Together they reflect a wide range of views - left, right, and center - on the past, present, and future of media reform and social transformation in China today.
Contents
Series Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
1 Introduction
Jack Linchuan Qiu
Part 1: Socialist Media, Transformed
2 Re-establish Socialist Cultural Leadership in the Networked Era? State, Intellectuals, and Working-Class Political Communication
Zhao Yuezhi and Wu Changchang
3 State Division, Control Networks and the Opportunity Structure for the Coverage of Contentious Issues
Xia Qianfang and Yuan Guangfeng
Part 2: Critical Events & Public Interest
4 The Wu Ying Case and the Partisan Nature of Chinese Intellectuals on Microblogs
Wang Weijia and Yang Lijuan
5 News Commentary as a Form of Interest Articulation: A Sociology of Communication Perspective
Xu Guiquan and Ren Mengshan
Part 3: Internet, Grassroots & Social Movement
6 A World of Black and White: Internet Practices in an Urban Village—Distribution of Social Resources and Ecology of Communication in a Grassroots Society
Ding Wei
7 Ernai Ah Zhen: A Story About the Construction of Subjectivity in the Virtual World
Liu Ya
8 The Virtual Organization of Social Movement Entrepreneurs: The Internet and New Forms of Protest in Contemporary Chinese Society
Zeng Fanxu, Vincent Guangsheng Huang and Liu Li ming
Index
