This book is a collection of eight chapters that examine new media and contemporary Chinese politics based on an analysis of twelve major microblog entries from 2011 to 2012, most of which are still relevant to the present day and the new age of WeChat.
It explores how the new media both informs and deforms the ideology. It also discusses how todays mass migration and the de-regionalization of floating populations around the globe, and the accompanying urbanization, the rapid disappearance of rural communities, and the reconstruction of urban-rural relations, as well as the rise in refugee flows and terrorism are all leading to new, large-scale social unrest worldwide.
Introduction The End of the Age of MicroblogsNew Media and
Contemporary Chinese Politics.- Violence, Terrorism and the Marketization of
(New) Media.- Do democratic business and its future belong to digital
commerce empires?.- Human is the sum of all data: The Labor Theory of Value
and Re-Proletarianization.- Politically Ceiling or Lifeline?.- Whom to
blame for the death of news: Advertisement and journalism.- The
Socialization of Media and the new Enclosure Movement: Platform monopoly
and hegemony.- The Paradox of mainstream media: Mass line and marketization
of public opinions.- New Medias Arena: Macroscopic-Policies Contest, or a
Win-Win Result?.- Conclusion, Archaeologies of the Future in New Media
Era.
Xinyu Lü is Zijiang Chair Professor and dean of the School of Communication at East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China. A specialist in critical communication studies and comparative sociology in Chinese visual culture, mass media and social development, she has written a number of books, including Documenting China: The New Documentary Movement, Writing and What It Obscures, AcademicMedia and Publicity and DislocationNarrative of China and Visual Politics in the Post-Cold War Era. She also contributed to the book The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record.
