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China and the Internet: Using New Media for Development and Social Change

China and the Internet: Using New Media for Development and Social Change

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General ComputersGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 197883473X
ISBN13: 9781978834736
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Dec 15 2023
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
Two oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of China's Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerce, the other bemoaning state control and measures against the forces of political transformations. This bifurcation obscures the complexity of the dynamic forces operating on the Chinese Internet and the diversity of Internet-related phenomena. 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. In addition, this book applies a Communication for Development approach to examine the use and impact of China's Internet. Although it is widely used internationally in Internet studies, Communication for Development has not been rigorously applied in studies of China's Internet. This approach offers a new perspective to examine the Internet and related phenomena in Chinese society.

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