The Internet and New Social Formation in China

The Internet and New Social Formation in China
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 169
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ISBN-10 : 9781317629283
ISBN-13 : 1317629280
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Book Synopsis The Internet and New Social Formation in China by : Weiyu Zhang

Download or read book The Internet and New Social Formation in China written by Weiyu Zhang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are billions of internet users in China, and this number is continually growing. This book looks at the various purposes of this internet use, and provides a study about how the entertainment-consuming users form into publics through the mediation of technologies in the era of network society. It questions how individuals, mediated by new information and communication technologies, come together to form new social categories. The book goes on to investigate how public(s) is formed in the era of network society, with particular focus on how fans become publics in a society that follows the logic of network. Using online surveys and in-depth interviews, this book provides a rich description of the process of constructing a new social formation in contemporary China.

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