China Online

Abstract

Part 1: Deliberating Online Spaces 1. Grounding Online Spaces Peter Marolt 2. Users, not Netizens: Spaces and Practices on the Chinese Internet David Kurt Herold Part 2: Defining Online Spaces 3. Corpses were Emotionally Stable: Agency and Passivity on the Chinese Internet Jonathan Benney 4. Regarding Subjectivities and Social Life on the Screen: The Ambivalences of Spectatorship in the People's Republic of China Alex Cockain Part 3: Claiming Online Spaces 5. A Framing Analysis of Chinese Independent Candidates' Strategic Use of Microblogging for Online Campaign and Political Expression Yu Liu and Qinghua Yang 6. China's Dream of High-speed Growth Gets Rear-ended: The Wenzhou 723 Microblogging Incident and the Erosion of Public Confidence Gunter Schucher and Maria Bondes Part 4: Enjoying Online Spaces 7. Gold Farmers and Water Army: Digital Playbour with Chinese Characteristics Ge Jin and David Kurt Herold 8. Chinese Fansub Groups as Communities of Practice: An Ethnography of Online Language Learning Xiao Liu and Gabriele de Seta Part 5: Shaping Online Spaces 9. Balancing Market and Politics: The Logic of Organizing Cyber Communities in China Cuiming Pang 10. The Role of Chinese Internet Industry Workers in Creating Alternative Online Spaces Bingqing Xia and Helen Kennedy