China and the Internet

Using New Media for Development and Social Change

Song Shi

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Rutgers University Press
15 January 2024

Media studies; Central government policies; Computing: general; Ethical & social aspects of computing

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.

By: Song Shi
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781978834743
ISBN 10: 1978834748
Pages: 380
Publication Date: 15 January 2024
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

SONG SHI is a teaching assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information and the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Since 2010, he has been the associate director of the New Media Action Lab at MIT. He has been engaged in Internet research over the past fifteen years, with intimate ties to many of the activists and NGOs analyzed in this book.

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

"""Documentarily exact, methodologically rigorous, and commandingly timely, China and the Internet offers a welcome example of grounded research that scholars in media and development studies will do well to follow, regardless of their regional foci or preferences.""--Briankle G. Chang ""author of Deconstructing Communication: Subject, Representation, and Economies of Exchange"""