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This volume uses “Networked China” as a lens to explore a complex communication landscape,characterized by digital platforms, algorithms, and global connectivity. Essays andempirical case studies cover issues of digital labor, cybernationalism, gaming, disinformation,fan culture, technology entrepreneurs, and the value of digital repositories in preservingcollective memory.

The contributions to this book explore the complex communication landscape of China,conceptualized as a global assemblage of technology, norms, and socio-cultural structures.Exploring these digital networks reveals the contradictions between connectivity and control,pushing beyond conceptions of the authoritarian system to better understand in thesemediated spaces the sensitive terms of “citizen” and “civic.” Asking “what” and “where” isChina and “how” do we know China, contributors situate their insights in local culturalcontexts but against the background of China-global entanglements.

Understanding a networked China confronts the challenges to researchers of access, politicalsensitivities, and over-reliance on digital trace data. Emphasizing a mixed methodsapproach, the studies in this volume provide creative approaches to such challenges at adeeper level of complexity, opening the “black box” to find emerging spaces and connections,within and without China, that are not always self-evident from the outside usingmore conventional conceptual categories.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Information, Communication & Society.

This volume uses “Networked China” as a lens to explore a complex communication landscape,characterized by digital platforms, algorithms, and global connectivity. Essays andempirical case studies cover issues of digital labor, cybernationalism, gaming, disinformation,fan culture, technology entrepreneurs, and the value of digital repositories in preservingcollective memory.

The contributions to this book explore the complex communication landscape of China,conceptualized as a global assemblage of technology, norms, and socio-cultural structures.Exploring these digital networks reveals the contradictions between connectivity and control,pushing beyond conceptions of the authoritarian system to better understand in thesemediated spaces the sensitive terms of “citizen” and “civic.” Asking “what” and “where” isChina and “how” do we know China, contributors situate their insights in local culturalcontexts but against the background of China-global entanglements.

Understanding a networked China confronts the challenges to researchers of access, politicalsensitivities, and over-reliance on digital trace data. Emphasizing a mixed methodsapproach, the studies in this volume provide creative approaches to such challenges at adeeper level of complexity, opening the “black box” to find emerging spaces and connections,within and without China, that are not always self-evident from the outside usingmore conventional conceptual categories.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Information, Communication & Society.

This distinctive volume offers a thorough examination of the ways in which meaning comes to be shaped. Editors Stephen Reese, Oscar Gandy, and August Grant employ an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conceptualizing and examining media. They illustrate how texts and those who provide them powerfully shape, or "frame," our social worlds and thus affect our public life. Embracing qualitative and quantitative, visual and verbal, and psychological and sociological perspectives, this book helps media consumers develop a multi-faceted understanding of media power, especially in the realm of news and public affairs.

This distinctive volume offers a thorough examination of the ways in which meaning comes to be shaped. Editors Stephen Reese, Oscar Gandy, and August Grant employ an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conceptualizing and examining media. They illustrate how texts and those who provide them powerfully shape, or "frame," our social worlds and thus affect our public life. Embracing qualitative and quantitative, visual and verbal, and psychological and sociological perspectives, this book helps media consumers develop a multi-faceted understanding of media power, especially in the realm of news and public affairs.

Hailed as one of the "most significant books of the twentieth century" by Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Mediating the Message has long been an essential text for media effects scholars and students of media sociology. This new edition of the classic media sociology textbook now offers students a comprehensive, theoretical approach to media content in the twenty-first century, with an added focus on entertainment media and the Internet.

Hailed as one of the "most significant books of the twentieth century" by Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Mediating the Message has long been an essential text for media effects scholars and students of media sociology. This new edition of the classic media sociology textbook now offers students a comprehensive, theoretical approach to media content in the twenty-first century, with an added focus on entertainment media and the Internet.

The Internet and digital media have become conduits and locales where millions of Chinese share information and engage in creative expression and social participation. This book takes a cutting-edge look at the impacts and implications of an increasingly networked China. Eleven chapters cover the terrain of a complex social and political environment, revealing how modern China deals with digital media and issues of censorship, online activism, civic life, and global networks. The authors in this collection come from diverse geographical backgrounds and employ methods including ethnography, interview, survey, and digital trace data to reveal the networks that provide the critical components for civic engagement in Chinese society.

The Chinese state is a changing, multi-faceted entity, as is the Chinese public that interacts with the new landscape of digital media in adaptive and novel ways. Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement situates Chinese internet in its complex, generational context to provide a full and dynamic understanding of contemporary digital media use in China. This volume gives readers new agendas for this study and creates vital new signposts on the way for future research.

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The Internet and digital media have become conduits and locales where millions of Chinese share information and engage in creative expression and social participation. This book takes a cutting-edge look at the impacts and implications of an increasingly networked China. Eleven chapters cover the terrain of a complex social and political environment, revealing how modern China deals with digital media and issues of censorship, online activism, civic life, and global networks. The authors in this collection come from diverse geographical backgrounds and employ methods including ethnography, interview, survey, and digital trace data to reveal the networks that provide the critical components for civic engagement in Chinese society.

The Chinese state is a changing, multi-faceted entity, as is the Chinese public that interacts with the new landscape of digital media in adaptive and novel ways. Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement situates Chinese internet in its complex, generational context to provide a full and dynamic understanding of contemporary digital media use in China. This volume gives readers new agendas for this study and creates vital new signposts on the way for future research.

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