Research Catalog

Title

Micro-blogging memories : Weibo and collective remembering in contemporary China / Eileen Le Han.

Author

Han, Eileen Le

Publication

• [Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xiii, 242 pages; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies

Uniform Title

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.

Subject

• Microblogs > China
• Mass media > China
• Collective memory > China
• Social media > China
• Journalism > China

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- Weibo, Collective Memory, and Social Tensions -- Weibo as a Research Site -- Materials and Methodological Approaches -- Organization of This Book -- 2. Weibo and Memory: Analyzing an Event-Oriented Platform with a Three-Dimensional Framework -- Conceptualizing Collective Memory in Social Media: A Three-Dimensional Framework -- Weibo as an Event-Oriented Platform and the "7.23" Accident -- Remembering Topical Events in Entangled Interests: Control and Resistance -- Remembering Topical Events in the Blurring Past-Present Distinction -- Remembering Topical Events in the Global-Local News Flows -- Event-Oriented Platforms and Collective Remembering -- 3. Control and Resistance: Remembering and Forgetting in the Changing Dynamics of State, Market, and Individuals -- Tightening Control of the Chinese Internet -- Weibo as a News Platform: Constructing a Community of Interests -- Authority, Collaboration and Mobilization: The Right to Remember -- How Remembering Leads to Forgetting -- Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting in the Complexity of Control and Resistance -- 4. Past and Present: Weibo, Historical Events, and News -- Transient and Fragmented Stories and the Changing Past-Present Relationship on Weibo -- Historical Events: The Rewriting and Reusing of History -- Online Commemoration, Memory Accumulation, and the First Draft of History: News Events on Weibo -- Conclusion -- 5. Global and Local: Collective Memory, Global Chinese Identities, and Nationalism -- Global Chinese Connection and Nationalism -- Remembering Through China's "Multiple Others" -- Becoming a "Cosmopolitan Chinese" with Compassion -- Conclusion: Collective Remembering and Nationalism in China's Globalization -- 6. "Universal Values" and "Chinese Characteristics": Memory and Chinese Modernity -- Southern Weekend Incident: A Protest of Journalists and a Turning Point for Weibo -- "Chinese Characteristics" and "Universal Values": The Divergence and Convergence of Modernity Discourses on Weibo -- Whose Modernity? Beyond the Split of Two Discourses -- 7. Remembering Weibo in China's Social Transition -- Remembering Weibo in Chinese Internet Culture and the Global Social Media Landscape -- Weiguan, Modernity Debate, and Then? Weibo as Witness of Chinese Social Transition -- Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9781137598806
• 1137598808
• 9781137598813 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 945949207
• SCSB-11549033

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library