Urban youth in China : modernity, the Internet and the self / / Fengshu Liu.

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Superior document:Routledge research in information technology and society ; 10
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Routledge research in information technology and society ; 10.
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Physical Description:x, 228 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Social transformation in China (1979-2010)
  • The internet with Chinese characteristics
  • Paradoxes as lived experiences of modernization : urban youth with Chinese characteristics
  • The internet in the everyday lifeworld : "I-and-the-internet" narratives from members of China's "net-generation"
  • The internet anxiety, the norm of the "good" netizen and the construction of the "proper" wired self
  • Between demonization and celebration : Chinese urban youth and the net cafe
  • The Balinghou's collective narrative in an online forum
  • From political indifference to vehement nationalism : Chinese young people negotiating the political self in the internet age
  • Conclusion: modernity, the internet and the self.