Online Society in China : Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival

Abstract

List of Editors and contributors Introduction: Noise, Spectacle, Politics - Carnival in Chinese Cyberspace - David Kurt Herold Part I - Creating the Carnival - Netizens and the State 1. Cultural Convulsions - Examining the Chineseness of Cyber China - Wai-chi, Rodney Chu and Chung-tai Cheng 2. The Internet Police in China: Regulation, Scope and Myths - Xiaoyan Chen and Peng Hwa Ang 3. Grassroots agency in a civil sphere? Re-thinking Internet Control in China - Peter Marolt Part II - Celebrating the Carnival - Fun, Freak-shows, and Masquerades 4. Parody and resistance on the Chinese Internet - Hongmei Li 5. China's many Internets: Participation and digital game play across a changing technology landscape - Silvia Lindtner and Marcella Szablewicz 6. Lost in virtual carnival and masquerade: In-game marriage on the Chinese Internet - Weihua Wu and Xiying Wang PART III - Instrumentalising the Carnival - Rioting as Activism 7. Human Flesh Search Engines: Carnivalesque Riots as components of a 'Chinese Democracy' - David Kurt Herold 8. In search for motivations: Exploring a Chinese Linux user group - Matteo Tarantino 9. Identity vs. anonymity: Chinese netizens and questions of identifiability - Kenneth Farrall and David Kurt Herold 10. Taking urban conservation online: Chinese civic action groups and the Internet - Nicolai Volland Conclusion: Netizens and Citizens, Cyberspace and Modern China - David Kurt Herold