Understanding China's Digital Politics
This book examines the impact of China's move to the digital sphere of public deliberation and discourse. It recognizes that although there were great hopes that the Internet, not just in China, would bring pluralism, tolerance, civility, and rationality to public debates, and enhance the prospects for democracy in authoritarian countries, in practice the Internet has, besides encouraging these virtues, also enabled much deplorable behavior. Based on extensive original research, this book explores these more negative aspects of Internet discourse in China, including polarization, conspiratorial discourses, disinformation, populist communication, and hate speech, outlining their nature and considering their consequences. As such, this book goes further than many other books on the Chinese Internet, which focus on the censorship versus resistance perspective.
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Understanding China's Digital Politics
This book examines the impact of China's move to the digital sphere of public deliberation and discourse. It recognizes that although there were great hopes that the Internet, not just in China, would bring pluralism, tolerance, civility, and rationality to public debates, and enhance the prospects for democracy in authoritarian countries, in practice the Internet has, besides encouraging these virtues, also enabled much deplorable behavior. Based on extensive original research, this book explores these more negative aspects of Internet discourse in China, including polarization, conspiratorial discourses, disinformation, populist communication, and hate speech, outlining their nature and considering their consequences. As such, this book goes further than many other books on the Chinese Internet, which focus on the censorship versus resistance perspective.
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Understanding China's Digital Politics

Understanding China's Digital Politics

by Tianru Guan
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Understanding China's Digital Politics

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Overview

This book examines the impact of China's move to the digital sphere of public deliberation and discourse. It recognizes that although there were great hopes that the Internet, not just in China, would bring pluralism, tolerance, civility, and rationality to public debates, and enhance the prospects for democracy in authoritarian countries, in practice the Internet has, besides encouraging these virtues, also enabled much deplorable behavior. Based on extensive original research, this book explores these more negative aspects of Internet discourse in China, including polarization, conspiratorial discourses, disinformation, populist communication, and hate speech, outlining their nature and considering their consequences. As such, this book goes further than many other books on the Chinese Internet, which focus on the censorship versus resistance perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781040423653
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/11/2025
Series: Communicating China
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 172
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Tianru Guan is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Wuhan University, China

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Political polarization on international affairs 3. Rights-oriented or responsibility-oriented?: Two subtypes of populism 4. Conspiracy theories in the Chinese society: Contextual analysis and the political, ideological antecedents 5. The dissemination of politically misleading information 6. Constructing threats: Otherness and hate speech 7. An interventionist approach 8. Conclusion

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