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Understanding Internet-Mediated Social Change in China : = Analyzing Categories of Citizenship in Chinese Public Discourse.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Understanding Internet-Mediated Social Change in China :/
Reminder of title:	Analyzing Categories of Citizenship in Chinese Public Discourse.
Author:	Xiong, Bingjuan.
Description:	1 online resource (244 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369785579

Understanding Internet-Mediated Social Change in China : = Analyzing Categories of Citizenship in Chinese Public Discourse.
Xiong, Bingjuan.

Understanding Internet-Mediated Social Change in China :Analyzing Categories of Citizenship in Chinese Public Discourse. - 1 online resource (244 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Over the course of two decades, scholars from different disciplines have documented a wide range of Internet-mediated social change in China, from the emergence of new social formations in terms of identity and collective activities to a changing "social contract" between the state and society. Previous scholarly work has shed considerable light on the social and political implications of the Chinese Internet, but little attention has been paid to the meaningfulness of these societal transformations from the point of view of the people who are actually living through them. In other words, the question of how Chinese people themselves make sense of Internet-mediated social change is under-researched, especially with respect to how people in China interpret what it means to be an ordinary Chinese and how they relate to the ruling state in a digital environment. Drawing upon a database consisting of 112 posts in a Chinese BBS forum, video recordings (posted online) of face-to-face interactions and a local TV news program, and approximately 50,000 online comments from two case studies, this dissertation investigates how people in China make sense of and respond to Internet-mediated social transformations in the political realm. Adopting a method of discourse analysis--membership categorization analysis, this investigation foregrounds Chinese speakers' meaning making practices in constructing memberships of citizenship and negotiating a changing official-citizen relationship within society. It concludes that speakers strategically invoke six distinctive but overlapping membership categories (namely, the common folk, the people, citizen, shitizen, netizen, and the fifty-cent) as discursive resources to communicate their sense of being (a Chinese citizen), acting (in relation to protesting against corrupt officials and creating socio-political change), relating (to the government and officials), feeling (in response to their marginalization and disenfranchisement in society), and dwelling (in a single party state).

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369785579Subjects--Topical Terms:

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