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FPRI BookTalk


The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China


The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China


Tuesday, May 31, 2016
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
FPRI Library, 1528 Walnut St, Suite 610, Philadelphia

     
Featuring:

   
Jacques deLisle
Director, FPRI's Asia Program
Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, 
University of Pennsylvania

Avery Goldstein
Senior Fellow, FPRI
David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations, 
University of Pennsylvania

Guobin Yang
Associate Professor of Sociology and Communication, 
University of Pennsylvania


Books are available for purchase here and will also be available for sale following the event.

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The Internet and social media are pervasive and transformative forces in contemporary China. Nearly half of China's 1.3 billion citizens use the Internet, and tens of millions use Sina Weibo, a platform similar to Twitter or Facebook. Recently, Weixin/Wechat has become another major form of social media. While these services have allowed regular people to share information and opinions as never before, they also have changed the ways in which the Chinese authorities communicate with the people they rule. China's party-state now invests heavily in speaking to Chinese citizens through the Internet and social media, as well as controlling the speech that occurs in that space. At the same time, those authorities are wary of the Internet's ability to undermine the ruling party's power, organize dissent, or foment disorder. Nevertheless, policy debates and public discourse in China now regularly occur online, to an extent unimaginable a decade or two ago, profoundly altering the fabric of China's civil society, legal affairs, internal politics, and foreign relations.

The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China explores the changing relationship between China's cyberspace and its society, politics, legal system, and foreign relations. The chapters focus on three major policy areas—civil society, the roles of law, and the nationalist turn in Chinese foreign policy—and cover topics such as the Internet and authoritarianism, "uncivil society" online, empowerment through new media, civic engagement and digital activism, regulating speech in the age of the Internet, how the Internet affects public opinion, legal cases, and foreign policy, and how new media affects the relationship between Beijing and Chinese people abroad.

J deLisleJacques deLisle is Director of FPRI’s Asia Program and the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for East Asian Studies and Deputy Directory of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Chinese politics and legal reform, U.S-China relations, cross-strait relations, and China’s engagement with the international legal order.


A GoldsteinAvery Goldstein is a Senior Fellow in FPRI’s Asia Program and a member of the Orbis Board of Editors. He is the David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations in the Political Science Department, Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, and Associate Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on international relations, security studies, and Chinese politics. 

Guobin YangGuobin Yang is an Associate Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a faculty member of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and Center for East Asian Studies. His research areas cover digital media, political communication, global communication, social movements, cultural sociology, and the sociology of China.


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