Guo Regulating Social Media in China

Foucauldian Governmentality and the Public Sphere
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4331-5708-0
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guo, Bei

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten: Zensur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Politische Unterdrückung & Verfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements – List of Abbreviations – 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.

Über Autor(innen)

Bei Guo is a lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication at Shaanxi Normal University (China). She acquired her PhD in the Department of Media, School of Humanities, at the University of Adelaide (Australia). Her research focuses on political communication, public relations, and new media.