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The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society

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The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society - Yuan, Elaine Jingyan
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Taking off at the height of China's socio-economic reforms in the mid-1990s, the Internet developed alongside the twists and turns of the country's rapid transformation. Central to many aspects of social change, the Internet has played an indispensable role in the decentralization of political communication, the expansion of the market, and the stratification of society in China. Through three empirical cases - online privacy, cyber-nationalism, and the network market - this book traces how different social actors engage ...

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The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society 2021, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, ON

ISBN-13: 9781487508135

Hardcover