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- Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms, Publics, and Production
- Book
- 2021
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
- Series: US–China Relations in the Age of Globalization
summary
Introducing the concept of state-sponsored platformization, this volume shows the complexity behind the central role the party-state plays in shaping social media platforms. The party-state increasingly penetrates commercial social media while aspiring to turn its own media agencies into platforms. Yet state-sponsored platformization does not necessarily produce the Chinese Communist Party’s desired outcomes. Citizens continue to appropriate social media for creative public engagement at the same time that more people are managing their online settings to reduce or refuse connection, inducing new forms of crafted resistance to hyper-social media connectivity. The wide-ranging essays presented here explore the mobile radio service Ximalaya.FM, Alibaba’s evolution into a multi-platform ecosystem, livestreaming platforms in the United States and China, the role of Twitter in Trump’s North Korea diplomacy, user-generated content in the news media, the emergence of new social agents mediating between state and society, social media art projects, Chinese and US scientists’ use of social media, and reluctance to engage with WeChat. Ultimately, readers will find that the ten chapters in this volume contribute significant new research and insights to the fast-growing scholarship on social media in China at a time when online communication is increasingly constrained by international struggles over political control and privacy issues.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Part I. Platforms
- Part II. State Media
- Part III. Engagement and Disengagement
- Contributors
- pp. 245-250
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609176655
Related ISBN(s)
9781611863918, 9781628954241, 9781628964257
MARC Record
OCLC
1242025081
Pages
308
Launched on MUSE
2021-03-18
Language
English
Open Access
No