The Chinese Internet

Political Economy and Digital Discourse
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-32175-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

This book explores China’s digital discourse and how the Internet influences social and ideological changes to the country’s political economy, within China’s historical context and through a variety of social and political actors.

Analysing discourses as diverse as policy papers, addresses from the Xi-Li Administration, and speeches from CEOs of the dominant Internet companies in China, as well as those of Chinese Internet Users, this book illuminates the dynamics, complexity, and structural contradictions in China’s current network technology-enabled developmental path through the lens of ideology and discourse. The book proposes a multi-dimensional model to understand Marxist ideologies under capitalism, emphasizing the relevance of alienation, commodity fetishism, and reification in contemporary discussions of ideology and discourse.

This insightful study offers fresh insights into Chinese digital discourse and will be of interest to upper-level students and scholars of communication studies, digital media, sociology, political science, and Internet and technology studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Na, Yuqi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I

1. Ideology, Digital Discourse and Capitalism

2. Capitalism and Digital Revolution in China

PART II

3. Government Digital Discourse

4. Digital Discourse and BAT

5. Negotiating Digital Discourse

PART III

6. The Digital Ideologies

7. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Yuqi Na is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Lingnan University, HK.