Online Society in China : Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival (Hardcover)

List of Editors and contributors  Introduction: Noise, Spectacle, Politics ? Carnival in Chinese Cyberspace - David Kurt Herold  Part I ? Creating the Carnival ? Netizens and the State  1. Cultural Convulsions ? Examining the Chineseness of Cyber China - Wai-chi, Rodney Chu and Chung-tai Cheng  2. The Internet Police in China: Regulation, Scope and Myths - Xiaoyan Chen and Peng Hwa Ang  3. Grassroots agency in a civil sphere? Re-thinking Internet Control in China - Peter Marolt  Part II ? Celebrating the Carnival ? Fun, Freak-shows, and Masquerades  4. Parody and resistance on the Chinese Internet - Hongmei Li  5. China's many Internets: Participation and digital game play across a changing technology landscape - Silvia Lindtner and Marcella Szablewicz  6. Lost in virtual carnival and masquerade: In-game marriage on the Chinese Internet - Weihua Wu and Xiying Wang  PART III ? Instrumentalising the Carnival ? Rioting as Activism  7. Human Flesh Search Engines: Carnivalesque Riots as components of a 'Chinese Democracy' - David Kurt Herold  8. In search for motivations: Exploring a Chinese Linux user group - Matteo Tarantino  9. Identity vs. anonymity: Chinese netizens and questions of identifiability - Kenneth Farrall and David Kurt Herold  10. Taking urban conservation online: Chinese civic action groups and the Internet - Nicolai Volland  Conclusion: Netizens and Citizens, Cyberspace and Modern China - David Kurt Herold