Media Events in Web 2.0 China: Interventions of Online Activism 184519831X, 9781845198312

This book is among the first to use a media events framework to examine China's Internet activism and politics, and

181 47 876KB

English Pages 153 Year 2016

Media Events in Web 2.0 China: Interventions of Online Activism
184519831X, 9781845198312

Insurgency Online shows that online activism is a ripe, new territory for non-governmental actors to raise awareness and

136 52 910KB Read more

Online Activism in Latin America examines the innovative ways in which Latin American citizens, and Latin@s in the U.S.,

1,032 59 6MB Read more

On China’s biggest social media platform, Weibo, feminists are staying one step ahead of the censors. Weibo Feminism is

247 93 4MB Read more

Westerners tend to equate political action with revolution and open criticism, leading to concerns that the less outspok

202 51 6MB Read more

A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of so

773 45 2MB Read more

115 90 54MB Read more

215 99 801KB Read more

Unruly Audience explores grassroots appropriations of familiar media texts from film, television, stand-up comedy, popul

198 79 680KB Read more

Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of “historic” events have become world rituals which, according to

178 94 15MB Read more

Media Activism in the Digital Age captures an exciting moment in the evolution of media activism studies and offers an i

266 57 1MB Read more