Mobile Phones and Politics in China - From Texting to Mobilizing

Jun Liu

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Abstract

The penetration of mobile phones in Chinese daily life has made collective actions easier to organize and challenged government censorship. Highlighting this new form of communication, the following essay shows how the traditional mass media’s role as gatekeeper is waning.
Original languageEnglish
Specialist publicationLa Vie des idées
Publication statusPublished - 2013

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Other Social Sciences

Free keywords

  • mobile media
  • contentious politics
  • guanxi
  • public sphere
  • China

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