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Privacy cynicism and diminishing utility of state surveillance: A natural experiment of mandatory location disclosure on China’s Weibo
Big Data & Society, issue April–June (2024), 17 pp.
"This article examines the public response to mandatory location disclosure (MLD), a new surveillance technology implemented on China’s Sina Weibo. Initially introduced to geo-tag posts related to the Ukraine War, the MLD eventually expanded to encompass all posts and comments on the platform. Dra
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Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China
London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic (2022), 215 pp.
"On China's biggest social media platform, Weibo, feminists are staying one step ahead of the censors. Weibo Feminism is the first book to explore in-depth the connections and forms of resistance that feminist activists in China are making in online spaces despite increasing crackdowns on free speec
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The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
London: Zed Books (2021), xv, 423 pp.
"China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. Update
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Communication, Development and Social Participation in China
Javnost: The Public, volume 27, issue 2 (2020), pp. 97-209
Media and Conflict in the Social Media Era in China
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xiv, 160 pp.
"This book explores the media and conflict relationship in the age of social media through the lens of China. Inspired by the concepts of medialization of conflict and actor-network theory, this book centers on four main actors in wars and conflicts: social media platform, mainstream news organizati
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The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 385 pp.
The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web
Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press (2019), 312 pp.
"A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies." (Publisher description)
New Media and Chinese Society
Puchong, Selangor (SG): Springer (2017), xvii, 290 pp.
Micro-Blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 242 pp.
"This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing age of soc
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Social Media and Collective Remembrance: The Debate Over China’s Great Famine on Weibo
China Perspectives, issue 1 (2015), pp. 41-48
"This paper provides one of the first studies on the role of social media in articulating individuals’ experiences and memories and (re-)shaping collective memory in contemporary China. It investigates how social media enable and facilitate the participation of ordinary citizens in distributing an
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Let 100 Voices Speak: How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything
London: Tauris (2015), 212 pp.
"Despite being a heavily-censored society, China has over 560 million active internet users, more than double that of the USA. In this book, social media expert and China-watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming together of activists, ordinary people and
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