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Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding the Politics of Chinese Media -- Why History Matters -- Communication and Power -- The Cultural Politics of Recognition -- Mediation as a Dialectic Process -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: The Chinese State: Moving Left? Moving Right? or Depoliticized? -- Historicized Understanding of Left and Right -- Contestation of Historical Accounts -- Depoliticized Politics and the Resurgence of Ideological Struggle -- Building Soft Power: The Depoliticized Style? -- Rebranding the National Image -- A Harmonious Society with a Truncated History and a Depoliticized Culture -- References -- Chapter 3: Looking beyond the Liberal Lens: News Media as Contested Discursive Space -- From Mass Line to Party Principle -- Commercialization, Conglomeration and Convergence -- A Liberal Newspaper's Dream of Constitutionalism -- Capital, Technology and the Changing Ethos -- Journalism for Sale: The Cases of New Express and 21 Century Business Herald -- Reallocation of Journalistic Resources -- An Eroding Workforce and a Changing Ethos -- References -- Chapter 4: The Cultural Politics of the Entertainment Media -- A Broader Understanding of Politics and Ideology -- The Political Economy of the Chinese Film Industry -- The Piano in a Factory: A Tribute to Socialist Workers -- The Rise of Hyper-Commercialized Television Programming -- From Voice of China to Chinese Dream Show: Sustaining Cruel Optimism in Precarious Labor -- References -- Chapter 5: From Angry Youth to Anxious Parents: The Mediated Politics of Everyday Life -- An Expanding Field -- The Politics of the Chinese Internet -- From "Iron and Blood" to "Little Pinkos" -- Calling All "Spendthrift Chicks" -- Achieving a Good Life Through Good Parenting -- References -- Chapter 6: Conclusion

This essay unpacks the politics and poetics of artificial intelligence in contemporary China by drawing on textual data from policy documents and news reports, as well as from ethnographic data collected through fieldwork in Shenzhen and Guiyang. Drawing on this empirical study, I argue that on the one hand, there is convergence between the logic of transnational capital and that of the developmentalist state at the discursive level, while on the other hand, the politics of AI unfolds unevenly at the conjuncture of state policy, political economy of digital technologies, and the actions of key stakeholders.

In this short essay, I will first discuss some major limitations of examining the Internet's place in China from the democratization perspective. I then introduce the concept of mediation as an alternative conception of China Internet studies. Here, I draw upon Silverstone's elaboration that "mediation is a fundamentally dialectical notion which requires us to address the processes of communication as both institutionally and technologically driven and embedded" (2005, p. 189). I am not necessarily arguing for one approach to replace the other, but, rather, trying to expand the scope of our scholarly inquiry.

In this article we consider the Double Eleven shopping festival as a major discursive site where the hegemony of what we call patriarchal capitalism with Chinese characteristics is articulated. The state, the market, the corporations, and the media, both mainstream and social media, all played an important role in building up a national spending spree that is deeply embedded in the current class and gender structure of China. The phenomenon of Double Eleven emerged at a time when state capitalism has been overwriting socialist institutions, while patriarchal ideology being further intensified through consumerism. As a consequence, the intersectionality of class and gender become increasingly manifest in the Chinese society. We start with a brief overview of the trajectory of gender politics in China since 1949, with specific focus on how the socialist project of seeking gender equality was gradually replaced by the quest for 'womanhood' and 'femininity'. We then discuss, using both secondary sources and our own analysis of news coverage of Double Eleven, why maintaining a high level of consumer demand is of crucial importance for the Chinese state and what the state's role has been in configuring the hegemonic gender order. A brief section on ideology and discourse lays out the conceptual framework of our analysis. It is at the intersection of a dissipating socialist ethos, emerging economic stagnation and ascending consumerism that the sexist discourse in relation to Double Eleven proliferates, and this is the analytical focus of our empirical section. We elaborate on the theoretical implications of the empirical analysis before concluding.

The creative industries are innovating to adapt to a changing digital culture and evidence does not support claims about overall patterns of revenue reduction due to individual copyright infringement. The experiences of other countries that have implemented punitive measures against individual online copyright infringers indicate that the approach does not have the impacts claimed by some in the creative industries. A review of the UK Digital Economy Act 2010 is needed based on independent analysis of the social, cultural and political impacts of punitive copyright infringement measures against citizens, and the overall experience of the creative industries.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface, Bingchun Meng, Guobin Yang, and Elaine J. Yuan -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Governing with Digital Tools -- Infrastructures for the Public: The Institutional Contexts of the Applications of Digital Technology in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Elaine J. Yuan -- Pandemic Infrastructure, Mediated Mobility, and Urban Governance in China, Yang Zhan -- DingTalk and Chinese Digital Workplace Surveillance in Pandemic Times, Yizhou Xu -- Access as Method: Hopes, Friction, and Mediated Communication in a Remote Disability Reading Group, Zihao Lin -- Part 2. Making Sense of the Pandemic -- Chinese Students and Narratives of Freedom before and during COVID-19, Yingyi Ma and Ning Zhan -- Cosmopolitan Imperative or Nationalist Sentiment? Mediated Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic among Chinese Overseas Students, Bingchun Meng, Zifeng Chen, and Veronica Jingyi Wang -- Contesting for Consensus: Social Sentiment toward Fellow Citizens' COVID-Related Behavior in China, Yan Wang and Yuxi Zhang -- Part 3. Contesting over Narratives -- Narrating the Nation during the Global Pandemic: The "K-Quarantine" and Biopolitical Nationalism in the Era of COVID-19, Ji-Hyun Ahn -- What Motivated the Sharing of Disinformation about China and COVID-19? A Study of Social Media Users in Kenya and South Africa, Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales -- China's Twitter Diplomacy: Crafting Narratives of COVID-19, Wendy Leutert and Nicholas Atkinson -- Contributors -- Index.