Rent 9780415462303 | China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution : Social Changes and State Responses

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This book examines China's information and communications technology revolution. It outlines key trends in internet and telecommunications, exploring the social, cultural and political implications of China's transition to a more information and communications rich society. It shows that despite remaining a one-party state with extensive censorship, substantial changes have occurred.

In recent years, China has experienced a revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), in 2003 surpassing the USA as... MORE

List of figures	p. viii
List of tables	p. ix
List of contributors	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
ICT development, state and society	p. 2
Digital civil society and digital governance	p. 6
Selective digital control and regime legitimacy	p. 8
The development of ICT in China and its implications for the world	p. 11... MORE
Whither China's digital control?	p. 14
Historical imagination in the study of Chinese digital civil society	p. 17
The logic of complex interdependence and the origins of digital civil society	p. 18
Digital formations and Chinese digital civil society	p. 19
Periodization and the study of the Chinese Internet	p. 20
Two stages of digital civil society development	p. 22
Persistent dynamics of digital civil society	p. 24
New dynamics in the period of expansion	p. 27
Conclusion	p. 29
Dancing thumbs: mobile telephony in contemporary China	p. 34
Introduction	p. 34
Mobile telephony and "combined modernization"	p. 35
From pre-industrial to mobile communication: the "great leap forward" in telephone development	p. 38
Social and cultural implications of mobile phone use: three cases	p. 41
Conclusion: the future use of the mobile phone	p. 46
Regulating e gao: futile efforts of recentralization?	p. 52
From parody to culture jamming	p. 53
Deconstructing authorship	p. 55
Decentralized production and distribution	p. 58
Carnival in the virtual space	p. 60
Conclusion	p. 62
In the name of good governance: e-government, Internet pornography and political censorship in China	p. 68
Web governance in China: institutions and discourses	p. 70
Big-government online with little service	p. 73
How and why web pornography prevails	p. 76
Political censorship, political reform and Internet hypocrisy	p. 79
Sophistications of censorship, failures of governance: conclusions	p. 81
Chinese intellectuals and the Internet in the formation of a new collective memory	p. 86
Introduction	p. 86
Collective memory and its functions	p. 87
The development of Chinese blogs	p. 89
China's memory policy	p. 93
The older generation of intellectuals and the official memory policy	p. 95
Findings from a content analysis of Chinese bloggers	p. 96
Conclusion	p. 100
From "foreign propaganda" to "international communication": China's promotion of soft power in the age of information and communication technologies	p. 103
Introduction	p. 103
From defensive to offensive - changing goals and strategies	p. 103
The expansion of ICT capacity	p. 106
CCTV-9 and China National Network	p. 109
Discussions	p. 113
Web engineering in the Chinese context: "let a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend"	p. 121
Introduction	p. 121
The history and architecture of the Web	p. 121
Properties of the WWW	p. 127
China and the WWW	p. 131
Conclusion: a dilemma	p. 133
The Political cost of information control in China: the nation-state and governance	p. 136
Information distribution and nation-state building	p. 137
Information control and governance	p. 144
Conclusion	p. 152
Index	p. 156
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