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02792aam a2200385 i 4500 001 54A09F86462211E9A3F20F6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190314012734 008 180326s2018 nyu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2018014109 020 $a 1433152711 020 $a 9781433152719 035 $a (OCoLC)1029791172 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d ERASA $d DLC $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a HN740.Z9 $b I56737 2018 100 1 $a Guo, Bei, $e author. 245 10 $a Regulating social media in China : $b Foucauldian governmentality and the public sphere / $c Bei Guo. 264 1 $a New York : $b Peter Lang, $c [2018] 300 $a viii, 197 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Theoretical foundations: public sphere and governmentality -- Background of China's Internet and social media -- Transformative regulatory measures of Weibo -- Weibo broadcast of the bo Xilai trial -- Patriotic citizenry in China's Weibo community -- Conclusion. 520 8 $a Regulating Social Media in China: Foucauldian Governmentality and the Public Sphere is the first in-depth study to apply the Foucauldian notion of governmentality to China's field of social media. This book provokes readers to contemplate the democratizing potential of social media in China. By deploying Foucault's theory of governmentality as an explanatory framework, author Bei Guo explores the seemingly paradoxical relationship of the Chinese party-state to the expansion of social media platforms. Guo argues that the Chinese government has several interests in promoting community participation and engagement through the internet platform Weibo, including extending the presence of its own agencies on Weibo while simultaneously controlling the discourse in many important ways. This book provides an important corrective to overly sanguine accounts that social media promotes a Habermasian public sphere along liberal democratic lines. It demonstrates how China, as an authoritarian country, responds to its citizens' voracious hunger for information and regulates this by carefully adopting both liberal and authoritarian techniques. 650 0 $a Internet $x Social aspects $z China. 650 0 $a Internet $x Government policy $z China. 650 0 $a Social media $z China. 650 0 $a Social media $x Government policy $z China. 650 7 $a Internet $x Government policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00977191 650 7 $a Internet $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01766793 650 7 $a Social media. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01741098 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20200318011929.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=54A09F86462211E9A3F20F6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search