Internet Research 14.0: Resistance and Appropriation

Liu, J. (Participant)

Department of Communication

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Period	24 Oct 2013 → 27 Oct 2013
Event type	Conference
Location	Internet Research 14.0: Resistance and Appropriation Denver, Colorado · October 24 -27, 2013Miao Feng1, Jun Liu4, Rachel Magee3, Melinda Sebastian3, United StatesShow on map

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In China, as the tightening of state control over the mass media persists, people are left with only limited or no access to mass media and a mass-mediated public sphere. Yet China has both the world’s most active social network population and the world’s largest online population. How—and to what extent—are everyday use of new media articulating Chinese people’s experiences and shaping their social memory? An analysis of Weibo (China’s equivalent of Twitter) tweets from cities that were sites of collective action shows that Chinese social media provide people an alternative communicative sphere for sharing and accumulating “unofficial” social memory as a kind of covert resistance.