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03368aam a2200397 i 4500 001 F4F670029F4211EBBB7E29A634ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210417010108 008 200604s2021 cau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020025602 020 $a 1503614433 020 $a 9781503614437 020 $a 1503613771 020 $a 9781503613775 035 $a (OCoLC)1158508208 040 $a CSt/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d TOH $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a HN740.Z9 $b I5674327 2021 100 1 $a Guo, Shaohua $c (Professor of Chinese), $e author. 245 14 $a The evolution of the Chinese Internet : $b creative visibility in the digital public / $c Shaohua Guo. 264 1 $a Stanford, California : $b Stanford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xii, 311 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a A cultural revolution in China's digital age -- A historical overview through technological platforms -- Tracking playfulness -- National blogging and cultural entrepreneurship -- Taboo breakers and microcultural contention -- Digital witnessing on Weibo -- WeChat : an inflorescence of content production -- Ambivalent revolution. 520 $a "Despite the widespread consensus that China's digital revolution was sure to bring about massive democratic reforms, such changes have not come to pass. While scholars and policy-makers alternate between predicting change and disparaging a stubbornly authoritarian regime, in this book, Shaohua Guo argues that this dichotomy misses the far more complex reality. "The Evolution of the Chinese Internet" traces the emergence and maturation of one of the most creative digital cultures in the world, through four major technological platforms that have marked trends in internet use over the past two decades: the bulletin board system, the blog, the microblog, and WeChat. Guo transcends typical narratives, structured around the binaries of freedom and control, to argue that Chinese internet culture displays a uniquely sophisticated interplay between multiple extremes, and that its vibrancy is dependent on these complex negotiations. In contrast to the flourishing of research findings on what is made invisible online, this book examines the driving mechanisms that grant visibility to particular kinds of user-generated content, offering a systematic account of how and why an ingenious Internet culture has been able to flourish. Guo highlights the pivotal roles that media institutions, technological platforms, and creative practices of Chinese netizens have played in shaping culture on- and offline"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Internet $x Social aspects $z China. 650 0 $a Internet $x Political aspects $z China. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Social History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Internet $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00977197 650 7 $a Internet $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01766793 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 776 08 $i Online version: $a Guo, Shaohua (Professor of Chinese). $t The evolution of the Chinese Internet. $d Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2020. $z 9781503614444 $w (DLC) 2020025603 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014738.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F4F670029F4211EBBB7E29A634ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search