China Online

Peter Marolt is a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore David Kurt Herold is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Part 1: Deliberating Online Spaces 1. Grounding Online Spaces 2. Users, not Netizens: Spaces and Practices on the Chinese Internet Part 2: Defining Online Spaces 3. “The Corpses were Emotionally Stable”: Agency and Passivity on the Chinese Internet 4. Regarding Subjectivities and Social Life on the Screen: The Ambivalences of Spectatorship in the People’s Republic of China Part 3: Claiming Online Spaces 5. A Framing Analysis of Chinese Independent Candidates’ Strategic Use of Microblogging for Online Campaign and Political Expression 6. China’s Dream of High-speed Growth Gets Rear-ended: The “Wenzhou 723” Microblogging Incident and the Erosion of Public Confidence Part 4: Enjoying Online Spaces 7. Gold Farmers and Water Army: Digital Playbor with Chinese Characteristics 8. Chinese Fansub Groups as Communities of Practice: An Ethnography of Online Language Learning Part 5: Shaping Online Spaces 9. Balancing Market and Politics: The Logic of Organizing Cyber Communities in China 10. The Role of Chinese Internet Industry Workers in Creating Alternative Online Spaces