Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Conclusion: netizens and citizens, cyberspace and modern China

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksForeword/preface/postscriptpeer-review

Abstract

The Chinese Internet is a wild place, enabling Chinese Internet users to engage in an endless variety of activities, including a number that are not permissible in offline China. It can be interpreted as an online form of the Bakhtinian carnival that serves as a pressure valve for the people, but also as an arena in which to laugh at and challenge government authority, while interacting freely with many similar-minded netizens in the familiarity and anonymity of the Internet.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOnline Society in China
Subtitle of host publicationCreating, Celebrating, and Instrumentalising the Online Carnival
EditorsDavid Kurt Herold, Peter Marolt
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter9
Pages200-208
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9780203828519
ISBN (Print)9780415565394, 9780415838221
Publication statusPublished - 24 Mar 2011
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameMedia, culture, and social change in Asia
Volume25

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Conclusion: netizens and citizens, cyberspace and modern China'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this