Description: Contesting Cyberspace in China by Rongbin Han Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Rongbin Han offers a powerful counterintuitive explanation for Chinas survival in the digital age. Han reveals how the state, service providers, and netizens negotiate the limits of discourse, interrogating our assumptions about authoritarian resilience and the internets democratizing power. Publisher Description The Internet was supposed to be an antidote to authoritarianism. It can enable citizens to express themselves freely and organize outside state control. Yet while online activity has helped challenge authoritarian rule in some cases, other regimes have endured: no movement comparable to the Arab Spring has arisen in China. In Contesting Cyberspace in China, Rongbin Han offers a powerful counterintuitive explanation for the survival of the worlds largest authoritarian regime in the digital age.Han reveals the complex internal dynamics of online expression in China, showing how the state, service providers, and netizens negotiate the limits of discourse. He finds that state censorship has conditioned online expression, yet has failed to bring it under control. However, Han also finds that freer expression may work to the advantage of the regime because its critics are not the only ones empowered: the Internet has proved less threatening than expected due to the multiplicity of beliefs, identities, and values online. State-sponsored and spontaneous pro-government commenters have turned out to be a major presence on the Chinese internet, denigrating dissenters and barraging oppositional voices. Han explores the recruitment, training, and behavior of hired commenters, the "fifty-cent army," as well as group identity formation among nationalistic Internet posters who see themselves as patriots defending China against online saboteurs. Drawing on a rich set of data collected through interviews, participant observation, and long-term online ethnography, as well as official reports and state directives, Contesting Cyberspace in China interrogates our assumptions about authoritarian resilience and the democratizing power of the Internet. Author Biography Rongbin Han is an assistant professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. Details ISBN 0231184743 ISBN-13 9780231184748 Title Contesting Cyberspace in China Author Rongbin Han Format Hardcover Year 2018 Pages 336 Publisher Columbia University Press GE_Item_ID:161837086; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780231184748
Book Title: Contesting Cyberspace in China
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Contesting Cyberspace in China : Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: Political Process / Media & Internet, Computer & Internet, Civil Rights, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, International Relations / General, General, Asia / China
Publication Year: 2018
Item Weight: 20.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Law, Political Science, History
Author: Rongbin Han
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
