Urban youth in China
Subtitle: modernity, the internet and the self
By: by Fengshu Liu
Series: Routledge research in information technology and society -- 10
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780415874861
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social transformation in China (1979-2010); title: The internet with Chinese characteristics; title: Paradoxes as lived experiences of modernization : urban youth with Chinese characteristics; title: The internet in the everyday lifeworld : "I-and-the-internet" narratives from members of China's "net-generation"; title: The internet anxiety, the norm of the "good" netizen and the construction of the "proper" wired self; title: Between demonization and celebration : Chinese urban youth and the net café; title: The Balinghou's collective narrative in an online forum; title: From political indifference to vehement nationalism : Chinese young people negotiating the political self in the internet age; title: Conclusion: modernity, the internet and the self.