Mobile Phones and Politics in China - From Texting to Mobilizing
(2013) In La Vie des idées- Abstract
- The penetration of mobile phones in Chinese daily life has made collective actions easier to organize and challenged government censorship. Highlighting this new form of communication, the following essay shows how the traditional mass media’s role as gatekeeper is waning.
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- author
- Liu, Jun LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- mobile media, contentious politics, guanxi, public sphere, China
- categories
- Popular Science
- in
- La Vie des idées
- ISSN
- 2105-3030
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- e3fbc93b-9a68-496b-8a24-f2c926256a4a (old id 3629179)
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- http://www.booksandideas.net/Mobile-Phones-and-Politics-in.html
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-04 09:30:18
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- 2018-11-21 20:53:35
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