This title investigates China’s network society, both its online cyber society and offline real world society, by analyzing the trends and social foundations of society as network and the social challenges it poses, as well as structural changes in social space and social interaction.
The first part of the book examines how network society in China forms and develops, analyzing the challenges and structural changes it poses. The author studies network power and uncertainties that lies in the supply, flow, and reception of a massive amount of information, revealing how this influences the government's administrative power as well as governance measures to stabilize social cohesion. The second part first discusses the social restructuring and characteristics of network social space in China. Based on case studies of several momentous social events, the spatial change characterized by an integration of absence and presence space and its influence on social interaction and experience is elucidated, including active absence interaction, mediated experience, spatial representation, and social identities of network aggregation.
The book will be a crucial reference for scholars and students studying sociology, network sociology, and contemporary Chinese society.
Author(s): Liu Shaojie
Series: China Perspectives
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 272
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
PART I: Realistic Foundation of Chinese Network Society
1 Development Process of Chinese Network Society
1 Fast-Changing Network
2 Sum-Up of Introduction and Development of Network Technology
3 Development Stage of Chinese Network Society
4 Profound Changes of Chinese Network Society
2 Practical Nature and Perceptual Order of Network Society
1 Practical Nature of Network Society
2 Group Nature of Network Space
3 Perceptual Order of Network Society
4 Perceptual Thinking in Network Society
3 Transactions in Network Economy
1 Challenge from Online Takeout to Real Economy
2 Network-Based Stock Trading
3 Expectations and Choices Before Massive Information
4 Power Restructuring in Network Society
1 Composition and Change of Social Power
2 Information Power and Uncertainty
3 Conflicts of Uncertainty
4 Power Conflict in Wenzhou Train Accident
5 Network-Based Social Governance
1 Challenge from the Network-Driven Changes to Social Governance
2 Progressiveness and Backwardness of Grid Management
3 From Grid Management to Network-Based Governance
4 Expected Guidance Under Massive Information Supply
5 Marginalization Beyond Social Governance
PART II: Spatial Change of Chinese Network Society
6 From Urban Space Theory to Network Space Theory
1 Space Sociology in the Classical Age
2 Social Space Theory Based on Urbanization
3 Network Space Theory Based on Social Networking
4 Space Outlook Toward Absence-Presence Integration
7 Network Space of Absence and Presence
1 Online Network Space of Absence
2 Flow and Update of Absence Space
3 Space of Flows and Space of Places
8 Unprecedentedly Active Absence Interaction
1 Fast Expansion of Absence Interaction
2 Study on Interactive Behavior from Presence to Absence
3 Absence Interaction in the RYB Education Event
9 The Rise in Status of Mediated Experience
1 Mediated Experience in the Ascendant
2 Mediated Experience of the Yabuli Incident
3 Social Role of Mediated Experience
10 Spatial Representation of Network Society
1 Theoretical Evolution of Collective Representation
2 Collective Representation in the Network Space
3 Representational Aggregation and Spatial Separation
4 Social Mentality in COVID-19
11 Social Identity of Network Aggregation
1 From Belonging Identity to Evaluation Identity
2 Evaluation Identity of the Li Changkui Case
3 Network Aggregation Based on Identity
4 Special Significance of Network Identity in China
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