Shifting dynamics of contention in the digital age: mobile communication and politics in China
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
(2020), xv, 211 pp., bibliogr. p.173-207, index
ISBN 978-0-19-088729-2 (ebook); 978-0-19-088726-1 (pbk)
"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)
Contents
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
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
