Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling
users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin …

How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and
society around the world—in everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in the …

As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work,
but also to “see the world” and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant …

Today's China is governed by a new economic model that marks a radical break from the
Mao and Deng eras; it departs fundamentally from both the East Asian developmental state …

Will new information technologies, especially the Internet, bring freedom and democracy to
authoritarian China? This study argues that the Internet has brought about new dynamics of …

The Internet in China examines the cultural and political ramifications of the Internet for
Chinese society. The rapid growth of the Internet has been enthusiastically embraced by the …

In this book Ernest Wilson provides a clear, nuanced analysis of the major transformations
resulting from the global information revolution. He shows that the information revolution is …

This article attempts to gain an understanding of the current and potential impact of the
Internet on the four‐fifths of the world's population living in developing countries, two‐thirds …

Contrary to much of the hype that posits cyberspace as the uncontested domain of rugged
individualists, computer networks and traffic exhibit deeply social and political roots. The …

The political economy of communication has three main components. First, it addresses in a
critical manner how the media system interacts with and affects the overall disposition of …