Resistance In Digital China The Southern Weekly Incident Sally Xiaojin Chen by Sally Xiaojin Chen 9781501337673, 9781501337703, 150133767X, 150133770X instant download after payment.

By investigating the Southern Weekly Incident, in which the prominent Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly was censored by the provincial government’s official propaganda department, Resistance in Digital China examines how Chinese citizens engage with the internet to facilitate social change and engage in resistance.
Chen’s in-depth analysis of the Southern Weekly Incident ties together overlapping debates in internet studies, Chinese studies, social movement studies, political communication, and cultural studies to discuss issues of the public sphere, collective action, connective action, emotions, and embodiment. Resistance in Digital China not only provides a theoretical framework for understanding how the internet may promote civic participation and a democratic culture in China, but also demonstrates a useful methodology for conducting an in-depth empirical examination of a significant on- and off-line act of resistance.
Fruitfully combining 45 interviews with key players in the Southern Weekly Incident with largely Western-based communications theory, Chen develops an understanding of the Chinese public sphere as “in formation,” at once invoked and rejected by Chinese citizens.