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Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, conflict, and control. Like many contemporary protest forms, Yang argues, Chinese online activism derives its methods and vitality from multiple and intersecting forces, ...

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The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online 2011, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231144216

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The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online 2009, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231144209

Hardcover