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This essay provides an overview of the theoretical perspectives and trends in the study of online community. It traces the genealogy of the community concept, addressing the conflicting views of community as a morally valued way of life and as a complex of social relationships in Western sociology. The essay also critiques the network approach to online community for its inadequate conceptualization of culture, which provides a particular tradition of meanings for social action. Lastly, under the rubrics of development and modernization, the paper contrasts the conception of online community as social network with what has been observed about the social and political lifeworlds of East Asian societies.

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.