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"On China's biggest social media platform, Weibo, feminists are staying one step ahead of the censors. Weibo Feminism is the first book to explore in-depth the connections and forms of resistance that feminist activists in China are making in online spaces despite increasing crackdowns on free speech and public expression. Aviva Wei Xue and Kate Rose explore the many forms of contemporary feminism in China, from activist campaigns against sexual harassment and domestic violence, through to Weibo Reading groups of feminist texts and subversive online novels published on the platform. The book includes an in-depth case study of feminist support networks for overwhelmingly female frontline medical staff that have sprung up on social media in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Weibo Feminism goes on to asks what lessons are being learned in contemporary China for the cause of social justice for women around the world"--

'Micro-blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China is one of the best books on Chinese internet culture and politics in recent years. It offers a stunningly original and insightful analysis of how journalists and ordinary citizens in China create news, remember contested histories, and explore personal and collective identities on China's preeminent microblogging platform Sina Weibo. Skillfully weaving together stories of past and present, the local and the global, control and resistance, the book provides a rich and textured account of not only the highs and lows of a popular social media platform, but also the dramas of social change in China. This book makes important contributions to the scholarship on digital media and culture, collective memory, and global communication.' - Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania, USA This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing age of social media? Eileen Le Han examines how various kinds of public events are shared, debated, and their historical significance and worthiness of remembrance highlighted on Weibo. Journalism plays a significant part in mobilizing collective remembering of these events, in a society with rapidly changing topics on the platform, the tightening state control, and nationalism on the rise. The first five years of Weibo reflect a dramatic change in Chinese society, where journalists, media professionals, and opinion leaders in other fields of expertise, together with ordinary citizens directly affected by these changes in everyday life collaborate to witness the rapid social transition

"Micro-blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China is one of the best books on Chinese internet culture and politics in recent years. It offers a stunningly original and insightful analysis of how journalists and ordinary citizens in China create news, remember contested histories, and explore personal and collective identities on China's preeminent microblogging platform Sina Weibo. Skillfully weaving together stories of past and present, the local and the global, control and resistance, the book provides a rich and textured account of not only the highs and lows of a popular social media platform, but also the dramas of social change in China. This book makes important contributions to the scholarship on digital media and culture, collective memory, and global communication."--Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania, USA This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing age of social media? Eileen Le Han examines how various kinds of public events are shared, debated, and their historical significance and worthiness of remembrance highlighted on Weibo. Journalism plays a significant part in mobilizing collective remembering of these events, in a society with rapidly changing topics on the platform, the tightening state control, and nationalism on the rise. The first five years of Weibo reflect a dramatic change in Chinese society, where journalists, media professionals, and opinion leaders in other fields of expertise, together with ordinary citizens directly affected by these changes in everyday life collaborate to witness the rapid social transition

Introduction -- Carnivalesque discourse: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding civic participation in Chinese social media -- Background and context of media regulation: an ongoing campaign -- Weiguan and Meizhi: modes of civic participation in contemporary China -- Playing word games: subversive pleasures through civic participation media events -- A case study of China's 2011 high-speed train accident -- Chinese social media, empowerment and the new sense of entitlement: case studies of Panbi and can I swear? -- Conclusion

As with many spheres of public life, public diplomatic communication is being transformed by the boom of social media. More than 165 foreign governmental organisations in China have embarked on the use of Weibo (a hybrid of Facebook and Twitter in China) to engage with Chinese citizens and reach out to youth populations, one of the major goals of current public diplomacy efforts. This exciting new pivot, based on systemic research of Weibo usage by embassies in China, explores the challenges and the limits that the use of Chinese Weibo (and Chinese social media in general) poses for foreign embassies, and considers ways to use these or other tools. It offers a systematic study of the effectiveness and challenges of using Weibo for public diplomatic communication in and with China. Addressing the challenges of e-diplomacy, it considers notably the occurrence of cyber-nationalism on Weibo and encourages a critical look at its practice, arguing how it can contribute to the goals of public diplomacy.

Facebook, Twitter und Google bieten die zentrale Architektur für politische Debatten. Doch Microtargeting, die zunehmende "Messengerisierung" unserer digitalen Kommunikation und polarisierende Algorithmen führen dazu, dass wir immer mehr in unseren eigenen politischen Realitäten leben. Verschiedene Autoren analysieren die wachsende Bedeutung von Social Media für den politischen Diskurs. Sie präsentieren Strategien und Lösungsansätze und stellen zukunftsträchtige Technologien der digitalen Demokratie vor. Mit Beiträgen von Ingrid Brodnig, Sarah Bütikofer, Adrienne Fichter, Martin Fuchs, Daniel Graf, Dirk Helbing, Anna Jobin, Stefan Klauser, Colin Porlezza, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Mike S. Schäfer, Robin S. Schwarz und Thomas Willi

What did Chinese authorities do in July 2009 when tensions between the predominantly Muslim population of China's Xinjiang province and authorities escalated into violent riots? They turned off the Internet in Xinjiang. This inspired China scholar Jason Q. Ng to devise a computer script to test all 700,000 terms in Chinese Wikipedia to see which ones are routinely censored on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, which currently has over 300 million users.The result was the groundbreaking and highly praised Blocked on Weibo blog, expanded here into a book. Ranging from fairly ob

Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Research Background -- 1.1.1 Severity of Brand Crisis -- 1.1.2 Rapid Development of Microblog/Weibo -- 1.2 Research Purposes and Significance -- 1.2.1 Research Purposes -- 1.2.2 Research Significance -- 1.3 Research Questions and Structure -- 1.3.1 Research Questions -- 1.3.2 Research Contents -- 1.3.3 Structure -- 1.4 Research Methods and Technical Route -- 1.4.1 Research Methods -- 1.4.2 Technical Route -- 1.5 Research Innovation -- References -- 2 Literature Review and Theoretical Foundation -- 2.1 Research Status Quo -- 2.1.1 Brand Crisis Dissemination -- 2.1.2 Information Dissemination on Microblogging Platforms -- 2.1.3 Research on Information Behavior -- 2.1.4 Contextual Factors of Behavior -- 2.1.5 Research Review -- 2.2 Theoretical Foundation -- 2.2.1 Information Context Theory -- 2.2.2 Information Grounds Theory -- 2.2.3 Information Processing Theory -- 2.2.4 Field Theory of Psychology -- 2.2.5 Information Behavior Theory -- 2.3 Summary -- References -- 3 Fluctuation Features of Brand Crisis Information Sharing by Weibo Users -- 3.1 Data Collection and Descriptive Statistics -- 3.1.1 Data Acquisition and Data Preprocessing -- 3.1.2 Data Features and Descriptive Statistical Analysis -- 3.2 Fluctuation Features of Reposting Behavior -- 3.2.1 Fluctuation Features of the Whole Information Spreading Process -- 3.2.2 Weekly Fluctuation Features -- 3.2.3 Weekly Fluctuation Features -- 3.3 Fluctuation Features of Comment Behavior -- 3.3.1 Fluctuation Features of the Whole Communication Process -- 3.3.2 Weekly Fluctuation Features -- 3.3.3 One-Day Fluctuation Features -- 3.4 Summary -- References -- 4 Contextual Factors Affecting Brand Crisis Information Sharing by Weibo Users -- 4.1 Selection and Construction of Contextual Factors.

Chapter 1. Class Mesodiniea Chen et al., 2015 -- Chapter 2. Class Karyorelictea Corliss, 1974 -- Chapter 3. Class Heterotrichea Stein, 1859 -- Chapter 4. Class Armophorea Lynn, 2004 -- Chapter 5. Class Litostomatea Small & Lynn, 1981 -- Chapter 6. Class Nassophorea Small & Lynn, 1981 -- Chapter 7. Class Phyllopharyngea de Puytorac et al., 1974 -- Chapter 8. Class Prostomatea Schewiakoff, 1896 -- Chapter 9. Class Oligohymenophorea de Puytorac et al., 1974 -- Chapter 10. Class Protocruziea Gao et al., 2016 -- Chapter 11. Class Spirotrichea Bütschli, 1889

Introduction -- 1. Cover-ups and Uncoverings -- What disasters reveal -- Grass-roots Weibo celebrities -- The human-flesh search-how Weibo brought down the powerful -- Crowdsourcing the fight against government corruption -- In the fight against the government, there is a fight within the government -- 2. Censorship Is the Mother of Subversion -- A look to the past -- What about Weibo? -- A censored internet: good or bad? -- "Fuck your mother" and the anti-censorship movement -- The digital is political -- To the left and right -- Refusing to accept censorship: the Reincarnation Party -- Crowdsourcing activism: the Food-delivery Party -- Same-city dinners -- 3. Tectonic Shifts: Counterculture Online -- Great expectations: who defines success? -- Birth of a counterculture -- Cash to burn -- Full frontal defiance: Weibo activism -- Naked feminists, bared blades -- Fighting back against abusers -- China's favorite porn star -- Out of the closet, onto the web -- Wedding bells -- A study in slash -- [REDACTED] -- Elementary, my dear, dear Watson -- 4. Not in My Backyard: From Screens to Streets -- Not on my bookshelf: pushing back against "brainwashing" education -- "Patriotic" or propaganda? -- Pollution: the smog that broke the camel's back -- Choking on smog: the Beijing blues -- The Southern Weekly incident -- 5. I Fought the Law -- Weibo and the court of public opinion -- The mother: Tang Hui -- The kebab vendor: Xia Junfeng -- The watermelon vendor: Deng Zhengjia -- The rights-defense movement and the New Citizens' Movement -- 6. The Crackdown and the Chinese Dream -- Silence in the flood: triumphs of censorship in a post-crackdown China -- Entertaining ourselves to death -- Backlash within the system -- The Chinese dream -- No more Mr. Nice Guy: from public-opinion guidance to the public-opinion "struggle" -- Let 100 flowers bloom -- Notes

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Chinese Social Media Today -- PART I: Chinese Social Media and the Public -- 2 Social Media and the Experience Economy in China's Microphilanthropy -- 3 Social Media and Activism of Grassroots NGOs in China: A Case Study of Love Save Pneumoconiosis (LSP) -- 4 The 'Making' of an Online Celebrity: A Case Study of Chinese Rural Gay Couple An Wei and Wu Yebin -- 5 Populist Sentiments and Digital Ethos in the Social Media Space: Revelations of Weibo Celebrities in China -- PART II: Chinese Social Media and (Re)Presentation -- 6 Framing Food Safety Issues in China: The Negotiation between 'Official Discourse' in Newspapers and 'Civil Discourse' on Weibo -- 7 Face-work on Social Media in China: The Presentation of Self on RenRen and Facebook -- 8 RenRen and Social Capital in Contemporary China -- PART III: Chinese Social Media and Disability -- 9 WeChat and the Voice Donor Campaign: An Example of 'Doing Good' on Social Media -- 10 Information and Communications Technology and Social Media Accessibility in China: A Peep at a Leopard through a Tube? -- 11 The Accessibility of Chinese Social Media Applications: A Heuristic Evaluation of the WeChat App -- PART IV: Chinese Social Media in Greater China and Overseas -- 12 From (Anti-mainland) Sinophobia and Shibboleths to Mobilisation on a Taiwanese Message Board -- 13 Chinese Internet Companies go Global: Online Traffic, Framing and Open Issues -- 14 The Global Expansion of China-based Social Media Platforms and Its Dynamics in the Australian Context -- PART V: Chinese Social Media Critique -- 15 Re-imagining Guangzhou on Sina Weibo: Geo-identity and Chinese Social Media -- 16 The Decline of Sina Weibo: A Technological, Political and Market Analysis

A cultural revolution in China's digital age -- A historical overview through technological platforms -- Tracking playfulness -- National blogging and cultural entrepreneurship -- Taboo breakers and microcultural contention -- Digital witnessing on Weibo -- WeChat : an inflorescence of content production -- Ambivalent revolution.

1. Introduction: Media and Conflict Studies in the Social Media Age -- 2. China's Social Media Platforms: Weibo -- 3. Sino-Indian Border Crisis in 2017 -- 4.Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Dispute in 2017–2018 -- 5. South China Sea Dispute in 2018 -- 6. North Korea Nuclear Crisis in 2018 -- 7. Conclusion.