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

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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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
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