[ecrea] New Book: The Internet in China. From Infrastructure to a Nascent Civil Society

NEW BOOK: The Internet in China. From Infrastructure to a Nascent Civil 
Society

http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319604046

This book aims to identify the most important political, socio-economic, 
and technical determinants of Internet development in China, through a 
historical approach that combines political economy, cultural, and 
public studies.  Firstly, the book looks at the most important 
strategies that compelled the Chinese government to invest in the 
construction of the Internet infrastructure. Secondly, it examines the 
relationships between the development of the Internet in China and the 
emergence of a nascent civil society. Finally, attention is given to 
three different Chinese online platforms in three different historical 
periods.  This three-pronged approach presents a coherent set of 
analyses and case studies which are committed to the investigation of 
the complex process of change undergone by Internet development in China.

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan, November 2017

ISBN 978-3-319-60404-6

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.

2. Studying the Internet in China: Relevance of the Topic.

3. A Historical Overview of the Media Political Economy of the Internet 
in China.

4. How Chinese People Use the Internet.

5. BBSS and Blogs: the First Participatory Online Spaces (2003-2008).

6. 2008-2011: From the Social Network Services Copycats' Struggle to 
Sina Weibo (the Most Popular Microblogging Platform).

7. The Development of Mobile Internet: Weixin (Wechat) a Killer 
Applicatin for Sina Weibo?

8. Conclusions.

Gianluigi Negro is both Post Doctoral Researcher in the Faculty of 
Communication Sciences and Assistant Editor at China Media Observatory 
(CMO) at Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland.


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