China Information‘s latest issue, vol. 28, no. 2 (July 2014) is a special issue on cyberpolitics, put together by guest editor Guobin Yang. The articles are free for download until 16 August 2014.
China Information presents timely and in-depth analyses of major developments in contemporary China and overseas Chinese communities in the areas of politics, economics, law, ecology, culture, and society, including literature and the arts.
China Information pays special attention to views and areas that do not receive sufficient attention in the mainstream discourse on contemporary China. It encourages discussion and debate between different academic traditions, offers a platform to express controversial and dissenting opinions, and promotes research that is historically sensitive and contemporarily relevant.
Articles
- Guobin Yang
Political contestation in Chinese digital spaces: Deepening the critical inquiry
[Abstract] [Full text] - Silvia Lindtner
Hackerspaces and the Internet of Things in China: How makers are reinventing industrial production, innovation, and the self
[Abstract] [Full text] - Marina Svensson
Voice, power and connectivity in China’s microblogosphere: Digital divides on SinaWeibo
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- Jesper Schlæger and Min Jiang
Official microblogging and social management by local governments in China
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- Steven J. Balla
Health system reform and political participation on the Chinese Internet
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- Robeson Taj Frazier and Lin Zhang
Ethnic identity and racial contestation in cyberspace: Deconstructing the Chineseness of Lou Jing
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- Marcella Szablewicz
The ‘losers’ of China’s Internet: Memes as ‘structures of feeling’ for disillusioned young netizens
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- Ning Zhang
Web-based backpacking communities and online activism in China: Movement without marching
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