{"product_id":"the-web-of-meaning-the-internet-in-a-changing-chinese-society-hardback-9781487508135","title":"The Web of Meaning; The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society (Hardback) 9781487508135","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Web of Meaning\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Internet in a Changing Chinese Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElaine Jingyan Yuan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487508135\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 March 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages, 12 figures\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.43 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As internet studies in China become more deeply embedded into China\u0026amp;#x2019;s social and economic domains, it becomes harder for scholars to find new approaches that can tackle and analyse the internet as a whole. Yuan\u0026amp;#x2019;s book makes a great contribution by presenting China\u0026amp;#x2019;s internet as discursive fields that are embedded in the very fibre of Chinese society.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Ping Sun (\u003cem\u003eChina Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking off at the height of China\u0026amp;#x2019;s socio-economic reforms in the mid-1990s, the Internet developed alongside the twists and turns of the country\u0026amp;#x2019;s rapid transformation. Central to many aspects of social change, the Internet has played an indispensable role in the decentralization of political communication, the expansion of the market, and the stratification of society in China.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethree empirical cases – online privacy, cyber-nationalism, and the network market – this book traces how different social actors engage in negotiating the practices, social relations, and power structures that define these evolving institutions in Chinese society. Examining rich user-generated social media data with innovative methods such as semantic network analysis and topic modelling, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWeb of Meaning\u003c\/i\u003e provides a solid empirical base to critique the power relationships that are embedded in the very fibre of Chinese society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Internet and Social Change in China\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Rise of the Internet as Symbolic Space\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Assembling Network Privacy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Articulating Cyber-nationalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Constructing the Network Market\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003cbr\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739523412248,"sku":"9781487508135","price":28.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-web-of-meaning-the-internet-in-a-changing-chinese-society-hardback-9781487508135","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}