Guobin Yang
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3675249 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Guobin Yang |
| NOMBRES | Guobin |
| APELLIDO | Yang |
| FIRMA | YANG G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0404-9664 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 578 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Postcritical Sensibilities for the Study of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Postcritique is the name given to a recent intellectual trend which opposes the practices of suspicion and theoretical abstraction in literary and cultural studies. Its proponents champion the alternative dispositions and epistemologies of attachment, hopefulness, and care (Anker & Felski, 2017; Felski, 2015). Embedded in a longer and broader intellectual current encompassing the humanities and social sciences, postcritique crystallizes a set of …
Online lockdown diaries as endurance art
Building a Public Culture of Pandemic Storytelling
From the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, ordinary people around the world have been documenting their experiences in diverse media forms, giving rise to a public culture of pandemic storytelling. This public culture, however, can be transitory. Personal stories may disappear for many reasons. The authors call for scholars to help build and sustain this public culture through the work of digital archiving and research, and the authors emp…
The Wuhan Lockdown
This book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city’s own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, the sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis.
Engaging Social Media in China
Engaging Social Media in China
"Introducing the concept of state-sponsored platformization, the book shows that, although party-state plays a central role in shaping social media platforms, state-sponsored platformization does not necessarily produce the Chinese Communist Party's desired outcomes"
Performing cyber-nationalism in twenty-first-century China
Every country has its patriots, but the ways of expressing patriotism may differ. A kind of patriotic and nationalistic action was the so-called Diba Expedition that happened in cyberspace on January 20, 2016. Chinese Internet culture started to develop in the mid-1990s. At that time, Chinese society was going through a period of unprecedented disenchantment. With accelerated transformation of the market economy and the upsurge of commercial cult…
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Media Activism in the Digital Age
Media Activism in the Digital Age
Emotions and Social Movements
The study of emotions in social movements and collective action has been a growing field for about two decades. It gained new momentum after 2011, with the global protest wave of the “Arab Spring” and Occupy Wall Street and the explosion of social media use in these protests. This entry begins with a general discussion of the social character of emotions and their manifestations in social movements. It then traces the historical background for th…
Media Activism in the Digital Age
The growing subfield of media activism studies has gained wide attention in recent years, but little consensus exists regarding its central questions and concerns. This book begins to chart an evolving research agenda by providing a cross-section of provocative work in this area. Victor Pickard and Guobin Yang have assembled essays by leading scholars and activists to provide case studies of feminist, technological, and political interventions du…
The Commercialization and Digitization of Social Movement Society
New Media, Development and Globalization
Social Media and Time
This essay emphasizes the importance of incorporating historical methods and sensibilities into the study of social media and proposes using periodization as a heuristic device to highlight historical change
Internet Activism & the Party-State in China
The history of Internet activism and Internet control in China is one of mutual adaptation between citizen activists and party authorities. The party-state initially reacted to Internet activism with alarm, but has since built a comprehensive approach combining repressive policing with gentler methods of social management. This approach has evolved in response to the diverse forms of and participants in Internet activism. But the adaptability of …
Political contestation in Chinese digital spaces
Although research on the Chinese Internet is thriving, our understanding of its multidimensional character, its diverse forms, actors, and dynamics remains limited. This is due to a tendency to focus on technology at the expense of meaning and people, as well as a bias towards sweeping and dichotomous analytical categories, such as state vs. netizens, politics vs. entertainment, and authoritarianism vs. democracy. One of the perniciously appealin…
Technology and Its Contents
The field of Chinese internet studies is rich and diverse. Just this past year, exciting new books have been published on internet use among urban youth (Liu 2011), online videos (Voci 2010), online carnival (Herold and Marolt 2011), new media events (Qiu and Chan 2011), and cyber-nationalists (Shen and Breslin 2010)
Chinese Internet Literature and the Changing Field of Print Culture
This essay explores the impact of the Internet on China's print culture through an analysis of Chinese Internet literature defined as all Web-based writings that are viewed as literature by their authors or readers, regardless of genre. It focuses on the early history of Chinese Internet literature, from 1997 to roughly 2003. The author argues that Chinese Internet literature developed in complex interaction with the existing literary field. One …
The Power of the Internet in China
"Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, conflict, and control". -- Book Jacket.
China Since Tiananmen
Online activism is an integral part of the broader landscape of citizen activism in contemporary China. It assumes a variety of forms, from cultural and social activism to cyber-nationalism and online petitions and protests. Technological development and social transformation provide the basic structural conditions. A fledgling civil society of online communities and offline civic associations, the logic of social production in the internet econo…
The Internet and Rural Development in China
Emotions and Social Movements
Emotions are spontaneous, self‐induced, or externally produced self‐feelings. Examples include positive feelings of love, loyalty, pride, joy, and enthusiasm and negative feelings of hatred, sympathy, fear, anger, sorrow, sadness, jealousy, shame, and dejection. Emotions are both embodied and take symbolic forms. A sense of anger or joy has tell‐tale somatic signs; often, it finds symbolic expression in voice, gestures, words, and tones, not to m…
Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere in China
Direct citizen voices are relatively absent from China's public arena and seldom influence government policymaking. In early 2004, however, public controversies surrounding dam building on the Nu River prompted the Chinese government to halt the proposed hydropower project. The occurrence of such public debates indicates the rise of a green public sphere of critical environmental discourse. Environmental nongovernmental organizations play a centr…
Activists beyond Virtual Borders
This article analyzes the main features and political functions of Chinese Internet–mediated networks that inhabit and traverse online and offline realms and that derive strength from their amphibious character whether they are primarily based online or offline. Internet–mediated networks in China shape the rules, practices, and institutions of Chinese politics by engaging in information politics, symbolic politics, leverage politics, and account…
The Power of the Internet in China
"Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, conflict, and control". -- Book Jacket.
Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere in China
Direct citizen voices are relatively absent from China's public arena and seldom influence government policymaking. In early 2004, however, public controversies surrounding dam building on the Nu River prompted the Chinese government to halt the proposed hydropower project. The occurrence of such public debates indicates the rise of a green public sphere of critical environmental discourse. Environmental nongovernmental organizations play a centr…
Achieving Emotions in Collective Action
This article outlines an emotional achievement perspective for the study of emotions in social movements. Following Denzin's work on emotions, I consider emotions as self-feelings that are situated, interactional, and temporal in nature. The concept of emotions as achievement complements Hochschild's emotion management perspective. While management focuses on control, achievement emphasizes articulation and creativity. I argue that, although indi…
Political contestation in Chinese digital spaces
Although research on the Chinese Internet is thriving, our understanding of its multidimensional character, its diverse forms, actors, and dynamics remains limited. This is due to a tendency to focus on technology at the expense of meaning and people, as well as a bias towards sweeping and dichotomous analytical categories, such as state vs. netizens, politics vs. entertainment, and authoritarianism vs. democracy. One of the perniciously appealin…
The Co-evolution of the Internet and Civil Society in China
Civil society and the Internet energize each other in their co-evolutionary development in China. The Internet facilitates civil society activities by offering new possibilities for citizen participation. Civil society facilitates the development of the Internet by providing the necessary social basis—citizens and citizen groups—for communication and interaction. These arguments are illustrated with an analysis of the discourse in Qiangguo Luntan…
The Internet and the Rise of a Transnational Chinese Cultural Sphere
Starting with a broad conception of public sphere, this paper analyses the nature, dynamics and political functions of online Chinese cultural spaces, particularly newsgroups, online magazines and bulletin board systems. Although these spaces are located both in and outside of China, the global nature of the Internet gives them a transnational character. The dominant language of communication in these spaces is Chinese and the `publics' are drawn…
Double-edged rituals and the symbolic resources of collective action
Internet Activism & the Party-State in China
The history of Internet activism and Internet control in China is one of mutual adaptation between citizen activists and party authorities. The party-state initially reacted to Internet activism with alarm, but has since built a comprehensive approach combining repressive policing with gentler methods of social management. This approach has evolved in response to the diverse forms of and participants in Internet activism. But the adaptability of …
China's Zhiqing Generation
Using interview data and a content analysis of personal narratives, this article shows that the nostalgia exhibited by China's zhiqing generation in the 1990s emerged as a form of cultural resistance against the changing conditions of Chinese modernity. At the center of this collective nostalgia was a concern for meaning and identity newly problematized by the conditions of contemporary life. Under these conditions, among former educated youth, n…
China Since Tiananmen
Online activism is an integral part of the broader landscape of citizen activism in contemporary China. It assumes a variety of forms, from cultural and social activism to cyber-nationalism and online petitions and protests. Technological development and social transformation provide the basic structural conditions. A fledgling civil society of online communities and offline civic associations, the logic of social production in the internet econo…
Emotions and Social Movements
Emotions are spontaneous, self‐induced, or externally produced self‐feelings. Examples include positive feelings of love, loyalty, pride, joy, and enthusiasm and negative feelings of hatred, sympathy, fear, anger, sorrow, sadness, jealousy, shame, and dejection. Emotions are both embodied and take symbolic forms. A sense of anger or joy has tell‐tale somatic signs; often, it finds symbolic expression in voice, gestures, words, and tones, not to m…
Technology and Its Contents
The field of Chinese internet studies is rich and diverse. Just this past year, exciting new books have been published on internet use among urban youth (Liu 2011), online videos (Voci 2010), online carnival (Herold and Marolt 2011), new media events (Qiu and Chan 2011), and cyber-nationalists (Shen and Breslin 2010)
New Media, Development and Globalization
Emotions and Social Movements
The study of emotions in social movements and collective action has been a growing field for about two decades. It gained new momentum after 2011, with the global protest wave of the “Arab Spring” and Occupy Wall Street and the explosion of social media use in these protests. This entry begins with a general discussion of the social character of emotions and their manifestations in social movements. It then traces the historical background for th…
Building a Public Culture of Pandemic Storytelling
From the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, ordinary people around the world have been documenting their experiences in diverse media forms, giving rise to a public culture of pandemic storytelling. This public culture, however, can be transitory. Personal stories may disappear for many reasons. The authors call for scholars to help build and sustain this public culture through the work of digital archiving and research, and the authors emp…
Social Media and Time
This essay emphasizes the importance of incorporating historical methods and sensibilities into the study of social media and proposes using periodization as a heuristic device to highlight historical change
Achieving Emotions in Collective Action
This article outlines an emotional achievement perspective for the study of emotions in social movements. Following Denzin's work on emotions, I consider emotions as self-feelings that are situated, interactional, and temporal in nature. The concept of emotions as achievement complements Hochschild's emotion management perspective. While management focuses on control, achievement emphasizes articulation and creativity. I argue that, although indi…
Double-edged rituals and the symbolic resources of collective action
Civil Society in China
Civil Society in China: A Dynamic Field of Study Guobin Yang (bio) Deborah S. Davis, Richard Kraus, Barry Naughton, and Elizabeth Perry, editors. Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ix, 449 pp. Hardcover, ISBN 0521474108. Paperback, ISBN 0521479436. Deborah S. Davis , editor. The Consum…
Chinese Urban Life under Reform
The Power of Tiananmen
The Internet and the Rise of a Transnational Chinese Cultural Sphere
Starting with a broad conception of public sphere, this paper analyses the nature, dynamics and political functions of online Chinese cultural spaces, particularly newsgroups, online magazines and bulletin board systems. Although these spaces are located both in and outside of China, the global nature of the Internet gives them a transnational character. The dominant language of communication in these spaces is Chinese and the `publics' are drawn…
Professionalizing Research in Post-Mao China
Journal Article Professionalizing Research in Post-Mao China: The System Reform Institute and Policy Making Get access Professionalizing Research in Post-Mao China: The System Reform Institute and Policy Making by Catherine H. Keyser. Armonk, NY, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 2002. 256 pp. $69.95. Guobin Yang Guobin Yang Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Scien…
The Co-evolution of the Internet and Civil Society in China
Civil society and the Internet energize each other in their co-evolutionary development in China. The Internet facilitates civil society activities by offering new possibilities for citizen participation. Civil society facilitates the development of the Internet by providing the necessary social basis—citizens and citizen groups—for communication and interaction. These arguments are illustrated with an analysis of the discourse in Qiangguo Luntan…
China's Zhiqing Generation
Using interview data and a content analysis of personal narratives, this article shows that the nostalgia exhibited by China's zhiqing generation in the 1990s emerged as a form of cultural resistance against the changing conditions of Chinese modernity. At the center of this collective nostalgia was a concern for meaning and identity newly problematized by the conditions of contemporary life. Under these conditions, among former educated youth, n…
Environmental NGOs and Institutional Dynamics in China
Environmental non-governmental organizations are becoming increasingly visible players in China's environmental politics. Adopting a field perspective, this article shows how the rise of environmental NGOs has taken place in interactions with four institutional fields. They not only respond to political conditions, but also to opportunities offered by the media, the internet and international NGOs. In this process, organizational entrepreneurs pl…
Activists beyond Virtual Borders
This article analyzes the main features and political functions of Chinese Internet–mediated networks that inhabit and traverse online and offline realms and that derive strength from their amphibious character whether they are primarily based online or offline. Internet–mediated networks in China shape the rules, practices, and institutions of Chinese politics by engaging in information politics, symbolic politics, leverage politics, and account…
Emotions and Social Movements
Emotions are spontaneous, self‐induced, or externally produced self‐feelings. Examples include positive feelings of love, loyalty, pride, joy, and enthusiasm and negative feelings of hatred, sympathy, fear, anger, sorrow, sadness, jealousy, shame, and dejection. Emotions are both embodied and take symbolic forms. A sense of anger or joy has tell‐tale somatic signs; often, it finds symbolic expression in voice, gestures, words, and tones, not to m…
Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere in China
Direct citizen voices are relatively absent from China's public arena and seldom influence government policymaking. In early 2004, however, public controversies surrounding dam building on the Nu River prompted the Chinese government to halt the proposed hydropower project. The occurrence of such public debates indicates the rise of a green public sphere of critical environmental discourse. Environmental nongovernmental organizations play a centr…
The Power of the Internet in China
"Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, conflict, and control". -- Book Jacket.
China Since Tiananmen
Online activism is an integral part of the broader landscape of citizen activism in contemporary China. It assumes a variety of forms, from cultural and social activism to cyber-nationalism and online petitions and protests. Technological development and social transformation provide the basic structural conditions. A fledgling civil society of online communities and offline civic associations, the logic of social production in the internet econo…
The Internet and Rural Development in China
Chinese Internet Literature and the Changing Field of Print Culture
This essay explores the impact of the Internet on China's print culture through an analysis of Chinese Internet literature defined as all Web-based writings that are viewed as literature by their authors or readers, regardless of genre. It focuses on the early history of Chinese Internet literature, from 1997 to roughly 2003. The author argues that Chinese Internet literature developed in complex interaction with the existing literary field. One …
Technology and Its Contents
The field of Chinese internet studies is rich and diverse. Just this past year, exciting new books have been published on internet use among urban youth (Liu 2011), online videos (Voci 2010), online carnival (Herold and Marolt 2011), new media events (Qiu and Chan 2011), and cyber-nationalists (Shen and Breslin 2010)
Internet Activism & the Party-State in China
The history of Internet activism and Internet control in China is one of mutual adaptation between citizen activists and party authorities. The party-state initially reacted to Internet activism with alarm, but has since built a comprehensive approach combining repressive policing with gentler methods of social management. This approach has evolved in response to the diverse forms of and participants in Internet activism. But the adaptability of …
Political contestation in Chinese digital spaces
Although research on the Chinese Internet is thriving, our understanding of its multidimensional character, its diverse forms, actors, and dynamics remains limited. This is due to a tendency to focus on technology at the expense of meaning and people, as well as a bias towards sweeping and dichotomous analytical categories, such as state vs. netizens, politics vs. entertainment, and authoritarianism vs. democracy. One of the perniciously appealin…
New Media, Development and Globalization
Social Media and Time
This essay emphasizes the importance of incorporating historical methods and sensibilities into the study of social media and proposes using periodization as a heuristic device to highlight historical change
The Commercialization and Digitization of Social Movement Society
Media Activism in the Digital Age
Media Activism in the Digital Age
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