This book considers the Chinese internet as an ensemble of ideas,
ownership, policies, laws, and interests that intersect with
pre-existing global elements and, increasingly, with deepening
globalizing imperatives. It extends traditional inquiry about digital
China and globalization and encourages closer attention to
contestation, shifting international order, transformation of states,
and new requirements of global digital capitalism. Across the three
foci of history, power, and governance, this book considers the ways
the Chinese internet is entangled with transnational capitals, ideas,
and institutions, while at the same time manifests a strong
globalizing drive. It begins with a historical political economy
approach that emphasizes the dialectics between structural imperatives
and historical contingency. As for governance, the Chinese state has
set out to re-regulate the internet as the network becomes ubiquitous
during the nation’s web-oriented digital transformation. Such a
state-centric governance model, however, is likely to affect China’s
global expansion, apart from the fact that the state is taking an
active interest in global internet governance. This book will be of
interest to researchers and advanced students of Communication
Studies, Politics, Sociology, Economics, Cultural Studies, and Science
and Technology Studies. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of the Chinese Journal of Communication.
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History, Power, and Governance
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ISBN
9781000686081
Publisert
2022
Utgave
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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