Screen LibraryUrban youth in China：modernity, the internet and the self
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge research in information technology and society ; 10 |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 228 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780415874861 0415874866 |
| Index Number: | D669 |
| CLC: | D669.5 |
| Call Number: | D669.5/L783 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Social transformation in China (1979-2010) -- The internet with Chinese characteristics -- Paradoxes as lived experiences of modernization : urban youth with Chinese characteristics -- The internet in the everyday lifeworld : "I-and-the-internet" narratives from members of China's "net-generation" -- Internet anxiety, the norm of the "good" netizen and the construction of the "proper" wired self -- Between demonization and celebration : Chinese urban youth and the net café -- The Balinghou's collective narrative in an online forum -- From political indifference to vehement nationalism : Chinese young people negotiating the political self in the internet age -- Conclusion: modernity, the internet and the self. |