Jun Liu

Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age

Mobile Communication and Politics in China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780190887278
• ISBN-10: 0190887273
• Artikelnr.: 59859276

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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