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The Internet was supposed to be an antidote to authoritarianism. It can enable citizens to express themselves freely and organize outside state control. Yet while online activity has helped challenge authoritarian rule in some cases, other regimes have endured : no movement comparable to the Arab Spring has arisen in China. The author offers here a powerful counterintuitive explanation for the survival of the world's largest authoritarian regime in the digital age. He reveals the complex internal dynamics of online expression in China, showing how the state, service providers, and netizens negotiate the limits of discourse. He finds that state censorship has conditioned online expression, yet has failed to bring it under control. However, the author also finds that freeer expression may work to the advantage of the regime because its critics are not the only ones empowered : the Internet has proved less threatening than expected due to the multiplicity of beliefs, identities, and values online. State-sponsored and spontaneous pro-government commenters have turned out to be a major presence on the Chinese internet, denigrating dissenters and barraging oppositional voices. The author explores the recruitment, training, and behavior of hired commenters, the 'fifty-cent army', as well as group identity formation among nationalistic Internet posters who see themselves as patriots defending China against online saboteurs. Drawing on a rich set of data collected through interviews, participant observation, and long-term online ethnography, as well as official reports and state directives, this book interrogates our assumptions about authoritarian resilience and the democratizing power of the Internet.
Internet --- Freedom of speech --- Censorship --- Authoritarianism --- Book censorship --- Books --- Literature --- Free speech --- Liberty of speech --- Speech, Freedom of --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Government policy --- Political aspects --- Law and legislation --- S06/0438 --- S11/1600 --- China: Politics and government--Policy towards press, Internet --- China: Social sciences--Internet --- INTERNET--GOVERNMENT POLICY--CHINA --- INTERNET--POLITICAL ASPECTS--CHINA --- AUTHORITARIANISM--CHINA --- Political science --- Authority --- Literature and morals --- Anticensorship activists --- Challenged books --- Expurgated books --- Intellectual freedom --- Prohibited books --- Civil rights --- Freedom of expression --- Assembly, Right of --- Freedom of information --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web
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The Internet was supposed to be an antidote to authoritarianism. It can enable citizens to express themselves freely and organize outside state control. Yet while online activity has helped challenge authoritarian rule in some cases, other regimes have endured: no movement comparable to the Arab Spring has arisen in China. In Contesting Cyberspace in China, Rongbin Han offers a powerful counterintuitive explanation for the survival of the world's largest authoritarian regime in the digital age.Han reveals the complex internal dynamics of online expression in China, showing how the state, service providers, and netizens negotiate the limits of discourse. He finds that state censorship has conditioned online expression, yet has failed to bring it under control. However, Han also finds that freer expression may work to the advantage of the regime because its critics are not the only ones empowered: the Internet has proved less threatening than expected due to the multiplicity of beliefs, identities, and values online. State-sponsored and spontaneous pro-government commenters have turned out to be a major presence on the Chinese internet, denigrating dissenters and barraging oppositional voices. Han explores the recruitment, training, and behavior of hired commenters, the "fifty-cent army," as well as group identity formation among nationalistic Internet posters who see themselves as patriots defending China against online saboteurs. Drawing on a rich set of data collected through interviews, participant observation, and long-term online ethnography, as well as official reports and state directives, Contesting Cyberspace in China interrogates our assumptions about authoritarian resilience and the democratizing power of the Internet.
Internet --- Freedom of speech --- Censorship --- Authoritarianism --- Government policy --- Political aspects
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Drawing on original survey data and rich qualitative sources, this book explores how authoritarian regimes employ the Internet in advantageous ways to direct the flow of online information. The authors argue that the central Chinese government successfully directs citizen dissent toward local government through critical information that the central government places online - a strategy that the authors call 'directed digital dissidence'. In this context, citizens engage in low-level protest toward the local government, and thereby feel empowered, while the central government avoids overthrow. With an in-depth look at the COVID-19 and Xinjiang Cotton cases, the authors demonstrate how the Chinese state employs directed digital dissidence and discuss the impact and limitations of China's information strategy.
Political participation --- Internet --- Communication in politics --- Computer network resources --- Political aspects --- Technological innovations --- Social media --- Computer network resources. --- Politics and Government. --- Politics & government.
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"In this book, we use the case of China to examine how state actors can transform the Internet and online discourse into a key strategic element for maintaining the government and relieving domestic pressure on national institutions. While scholars have long known that the democratizing influence of the Internet can be blunted by autocratic states, in this book, we show that the online sphere can effectively be co-opted by states like China and transformed into a supporting institution. Our theory, Directed Digital Dissidence, explains how autocracies manage critical online information flows and the impact this management has on mass opinion and behavior. While the expansion of the Internet may stimulate dissidence, it also provides the central government an avenue to direct that dissent away and toward selected targets. Under the strategy of Directed Digital Dissidence, the Internet becomes a mechanism to dissipate threats by serving as a targeted relief valve rather than a building pressure cooker. We consider the process and impact of this evolving state led manipulation of the political Internet using data and examples from China. We use an original large-scale random survey of Chinese citizens to measure Internet use, social media use, and political attitudes. We also consider the impact of the state firewall. Beyond simply identifying the government strategy, we focus on testing the effectiveness of the strategy with empirical data. We also consider how the redirection of dissent can be done across a broader range of targets, including non-state actors and other nations"--
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Selected papers from the proceedings of the Geo-Hubei 2014 International Conference on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure, held in Yichang, Hubei, China, July 20-22, 2014. Sponsored by the China Three Gorges University, the Committee on Sustainability of ASCE, and the Geo-Institute of ASCE. Geotechnical Special Publication 255 contains 18 peer-reviewed papers on the advanced characterization of asphalt and concrete materials. Topics include: recycled asphalt and concrete pavements; warm mix asphalt; asphalt shingles; and cement paste and concrete materials characterization. This GSP will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners in pavement and geotechnical engineering.
Asphalt concrete --- Materials characterization --- Asphalt pavements --- Geotechnical engineering --- Concrete pavements --- Sustainable development --- Professional societies --- Recycling --- Asphalt concrete --- Materials characterization --- Asphalt pavements --- Geotechnical engineering --- Concrete pavements --- Sustainable development --- Professional societies --- Recycling
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