Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement : New Agendas in Communication (Paperback)

Introduction: A New Agenda: Digital Media and Civic Engagement in Networked China Wenhong Chen and Stephen D. Reese PART I. Digital Media Technologies and Civic Engagement: Implications, Conditions, and Contradictions 1. Internet Use, Socio-Geographic Context and Citizenship Engagement: A Multilevel Model on the Democratizing Effects of the Internet in China Baohua Zhou 2. Networked Anti-Corruption: Actors, Styles and Mechanisms Jia Dai, Fanxu Zeng, and Xin Yu 3. Memetic Engagement as Middle Path Resistance: Contesting Mainland Chinese Immigration and Social Cohesion Pauline Hope Cheong and Yashu Chen 4. Engaging Government for Environmental Collective Action: Political Implications of ICTs in Rural China Rong Wang 5. Mobile Activism and Contentious Politics in Contemporary China Jun Liu 6. Campaigning on Weibo: Independent Candidates' Use of Social Media in Local People's Congress Elections in China Fei Shen PART II. Glocalized Media Space: Emergence, Composition, and Function 7. The Unintended Consequences of Deliberative Discourse: A Democratic Attempt for HIV NGOs in China Samuel Galler 8. The Importance of "Bridges" in the Global News Arena: A Network Study of Bridge Blogs about China Nan Zheng 9. Online Political Discussion in English and Chinese: The Case of Bo Xilai Ericka Menchen-Trevino and Yuping Mao 10. Fandom of Foreign Reality TV Shows in the Chinese Cyber Sphere Weiyu Zhang and Lize Zhang 11. The New Political of Mediated Activism in China: A Critical Review Elaine Yuan