Title China's digital nationalism / Florian Schneider

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 291 pages) Series Oxford studies in digital politics Oxford studies in digital politics. Contents Nationalism and its digital modes -- Filtering digital China -- Digital China's hyperlink networks -- The mediated massacre -- Selling sovereignty on the web -- The user-generated nation -- The cultural governance of digital China -- Conclusion : the future of nationalism in the digital age Summary "Our current understanding of fake news and cyber warfare aside, many people still believe that the internet represents a cosmopolitan ideal over which the flow of diverse information educates and empowers users. The Chinese case defies these expectations. Nationalism, in China as much as elsewhere, is today adopted, filtered, transformed, enhanced, and accelerated through digital networks. And as we have increasingly seen, nationalism in digital spheres interacts in complicated ways with nationalism "on the ground". If we are to understand the social and political complexities of the 21st century, we need to ask: what happens to nationalism when it goes digital? In China's Digital Nationalism, Florian Schneider explores the issue by looking at digital China first hand, exploring what search engines, online encyclopedias, websites, hyperlink networks, and social media can tell us about the way that different actors construct and manage a crucial topic in contemporary Chinese politics: the protracted historical relationship with neighboring Japan. Using two cases, the infamous Nanjing Massacre of 1937 and the recent disputes over islands in the East China Sea, Schneider shows how various stakeholders in China construct networks and deploy power to shape nationalism for their own ends. These dynamics provide crucial lessons on how nation-states adapt to the shifting terrain of the digital age, and they highlight how digital nationalism is today an emergent property of complex communication networks"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 21, 2018) Subject Internet -- Political aspects -- China Cyberspace -- Political aspects -- China Internet -- Government policy -- China Nationalism -- China COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy. COMPUTERS -- Computer Science. COMPUTERS -- Data Processing. COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- General. COMPUTERS -- Information Technology. COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory. COMPUTERS -- Reference. Cyberspace -- Political aspects Internet -- Government policy Internet -- Political aspects Nationalism China Form Electronic book LC no. 2018020114 ISBN 9780190876814 0190876816 9780190876838 0190876832

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