Technological Empowerment: The Internet, State, and Society in China
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Yongnian Zheng (Author)
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Will new information technologies, especially the Internet, bring freedom and democracy to authoritarian China? This study argues that the Internet has brought about new dynamics of socio-political changes in China, and that state power and social forces are transforming in Internet-mediated public space.
Its findings are fourfold. First, the Internet empowers both the state and society. The Internet has played an important role in facilitating political liberalization, and made government more open, transparent, and accountable. Second, the Internet produces enormous effects which are highly decentralized and beyond the reach of state power. Third, the Internet has created a new infrastructure for the state and society in their engagement with (and disengagement from) each other. Fourth, the Internet produces a recursive relationship between state and society. The interactions between the state and society over the Internet end up reshaping both the state and society. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
Yongnian Zheng is Professor and Head of Research at The China Policy Institute, Nottingham University. He is also a coeditor of China: An International Journal. His publications include Globalization and State Transformation in China (2004) and Will China Become Democratic? Elite, Class, and Regime Transition (2004).
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- Contributor: Yongnian Zheng
- Imprint: Stanford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780804757379
- Number of Pages: 272
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
- Packaged Weight: 503
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Release Date: 2007-11-07
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Yongnian Zheng is Professor and Head of Research at The China Policy Institute, Nottingham University. He is also a coeditor of China: An International Journal. His publications include Globalization and State Transformation in China (2004) and Will China Become Democratic? Elite, Class, and Regime Transition (2004).
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