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Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age - Jun Liu

Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age

Mobile Communication and Politics in China

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Buch | Softcover
232 Seiten
2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-088727-8 (ISBN)
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With a communication-centered framework that brings together communication studies, sociology, and political science, this book explains how people adopt and maneuver mobile technologies as tactics of contention for political mobilization in contentious moments and everyday resistance in contemporary China.
Over the past decades, waves of political contention involving the use of information and communication technologies have swept across the globe. The phenomenon stimulates the scholarship on digital communication technologies and contentious collective action to thrive as an exciting, relevant, but highly fragmentary and contested field with disciplinary boundaries. To advance interdisciplinary understanding, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age outlines a communication-centered framework that articulates the intricate relationship between technology, communication, and contention. It systematically explores the influence of mobile technology on political contention in China, the country with the world's largest number of mobile and internet users. Using first-hand in-depth interview and fieldwork data, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age tracks the strategic choice of mobile phones as repertoires of contention, illustrates the effective mobilization of mobile communication on the basis of its strong and reciprocal social ties, and identifies the communicative practice of forwarding officially alleged "rumors" as a form of everyday resistance. Through this groundbreaking study, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age presents a nuanced portrayal of an emerging dynamics of contention--both its strengths and limitations- through the embedding of mobile communication into Chinese society and politics.

Jun Liu, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Jun Liu is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research covers political sociology and communication technologies and publishes in the fields of communication, sociology, political science, and computer science. He has won several awards from The Information Technology and Politics Section of American Political Science Association, the International Communication Association's Mobile Communication Interest Group and the International Communication Association Mobile Preconference.

Preface
1. Introduction: Movements in Communication
2. Toward a Synthetic Framework
3. From Affordances to Repertoires of Contention
4. More Than Words
5. "To Retweet Each and Every Rumor:" Mobile rumoring as contention
6. Conclusion: Beyond China, Moving Mobile
Appendix: Methodological Reflections
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in Mobile Communication
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 231 x 155 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-19-088727-3 / 0190887273
ISBN-13 978-0-19-088727-8 / 9780190887278
Zustand Neuware
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