The Internet and New Social Formation in China

Fandom Publics in the Making

Weiyu Zhang (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
9781138477216 (ISBN)

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There are billions of internet users in China, and this number is continually growing. This book looks at the various purposes of this internet use, and provides a study about how the entertainment-consuming users form into publics through the mediation of technologies in the era of network society. It questions how individuals, mediated by new information and communication technologies, come together to form new social categories. The book goes on to investigate how public(s) is formed in the era of network society, with particular focus on how fans become publics in a society that follows the logic of network. Using online surveys and in-depth interviews, this book provides a rich description of the process of constructing a new social formation in contemporary China.

Weiyu Zhang is Associate Professor in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore.

1. Publics, Fans, and Social Media 2. Popular Culture and ICTs 3. Rear Window to Movies: From Fans to Subaltern Publics 4. Ten Years After: From Subaltern to Regular Publics 5. Online Translation Communities: From Consumers to Prod-users 6. House of Cards: From Entertainment to Politics 7. Douban vs. Renren: Fan Objects as Network Nodes8. Weibo Publics: Celebrities as Network Nodes 9. Fandom Publics: Social Formation in the Network Society

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2018
Reihe/Serie	Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
Zusatzinfo	5 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781138477216 / 9781138477216
Zustand	Neuware