The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society 9781487508135, 9781487537630, 9781487537623, 1487508131
Taking off at the height of China’s socio-economic reforms in the mid-1990s, the Internet developed alongside the twists
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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Half Title Page
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Network Privacy, Cyber-nationalism, and the Network Market
The Internet as Discursive Fields: A Theoretical Framework
The Internet for Critical Discourses: Method
Outline of the Book
The Web of Meaning: A New Approach
1. The Internet and Social Change in China
New Cultural Subjects: Shamate and Diaosi
Discursive Articulation
Forms of Internet Sociality
Internet Events
Conclusion
2. The Rise of the Internet as Symbolic Space
The Structural Transformation of the Cultural Realm
The Rise of the Internet as Symbolic Space
The Public Realm and Many Publics
Symbolic Power and Symbolic Transactions
Conclusion
3. Assembling Network Privacy
Practices and Values of Privacy in Chinese Society
Privacy as a Web of Meaning in the Mediated Lifeworld
Privacy with Family Resemblance
Privacy as Personal Boundary
Privacy in Public Domains
Privacy in Socio-Technological Domains
Conclusion
4. Articulating Cyber-nationalism
Cyber-nationalism in China
Nationalism as Cultural Identification
Nationalism as a Consequence of Neoliberal Development and Subgroup Identification
Nationalism in Globalization
Conclusion
CHAPTER APPENDIX Methodology, Topic Groups, and Keywords from Sina Weibo Postings on the Diaoyu Islands Dispute
5. Constructing the Network Market
Alibaba: The Bazaar on the Internet
The Internet + : The Constellation of State and Market
Mass Entrepreneurship and Mass Innovation: Production and Consumption
Fake Goods: Lifeworld versus System World
Conclusion
Conclusion
Discourses of Social Change
From the Public Sphere to Discursive Fields
References
Index
Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Half Title Page
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Network Privacy, Cyber-nationalism, and the Network Market
The Internet as Discursive Fields: A Theoretical Framework
The Internet for Critical Discourses: Method
Outline of the Book
The Web of Meaning: A New Approach
1. The Internet and Social Change in China
New Cultural Subjects: Shamate and Diaosi
Discursive Articulation
Forms of Internet Sociality
Internet Events
Conclusion
2. The Rise of the Internet as Symbolic Space
The Structural Transformation of the Cultural Realm
The Rise of the Internet as Symbolic Space
The Public Realm and Many Publics
Symbolic Power and Symbolic Transactions
Conclusion
3. Assembling Network Privacy
Practices and Values of Privacy in Chinese Society
Privacy as a Web of Meaning in the Mediated Lifeworld
Privacy with Family Resemblance
Privacy as Personal Boundary
Privacy in Public Domains
Privacy in Socio-Technological Domains
Conclusion
4. Articulating Cyber-nationalism
Cyber-nationalism in China
Nationalism as Cultural Identification
Nationalism as a Consequence of Neoliberal Development and Subgroup Identification
Nationalism in Globalization
Conclusion
CHAPTER APPENDIX Methodology, Topic Groups, and Keywords from Sina Weibo Postings on the Diaoyu Islands Dispute
5. Constructing the Network Market
Alibaba: The Bazaar on the Internet
The Internet + : The Constellation of State and Market
Mass Entrepreneurship and Mass Innovation: Production and Consumption
Fake Goods: Lifeworld versus System World
Conclusion
Conclusion
Discourses of Social Change
From the Public Sphere to Discursive Fields
References
Index
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