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Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020), xv, 211 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 173-207, index

Series: Studies in Mobile Communication

ISBN 978-0-19-088729-2 (ebook); 978-0-19-088726-1 (pbk)

Signature commbox: 313:70-Politics 2020

"With a communication-centered framework that brings together communication studies, sociology, and political science, this book explains how people adopt and maneuver mobile technologies as tactics of contention for political mobilization in contentious moments and everyday resistance in contemporary China." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction: Movements in Communication, 1
2 Toward a Synthetic Framework, 25
3 From Affordances to Repertoires of Contention: The Missing Link in Understanding the Use of (Mobile) Technologies in Contention, 47
4 More Than Words: The Integrative Power of the Mobile Phone as a "Reciprocal Technology" for Micromobilization, 77
5 "To Retweet Each and Every Rumour": Mobile Rumoring as Contention, 110
6 Conclusion: Beyond China, Moving Mobile, 144