Song Shi

China and the Internet

Using New Media for Development and Social Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analyses how Chinese activists, NGOs, and government offices have used the Internet to fight rural malnutrition, the digital divide, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other urgent problems affecting millions of people. The book presents five theoretically-informed case studies of how new media have been used for development and social change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 236mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781978834736
• ISBN-10: 197883473X
• Artikelnr.: 67789888

Autorenporträt

SONG SHI is a teaching assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information and the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Since 2010, he has been the associate director of the New Media Action Lab at MIT. He has been engaged in Internet research over the past fifteen years, with intimate ties to many of the activists and NGOs analyzed in this book.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Connecting Every Village Project: Government Engagement in ICT for
Development
3. The NGO 2.0 Project: Using New Media for the Empowerment of NGOs
4. Tiger Gate: A New Media Action for Government Accountability
5. Free Lunches: Activist, NGO, and State Collaboration in Development and
Social Change
6. Contention and Reciprocity in the Free Lunch Project: Complex and
Multi-dimensional Relations between Activists, the State, and Corporations
7. NCP Life Support Network: New Media Actions against Covid-19
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index