The norm of the ‘good’ netizen and the construction of the ‘proper’ wired self

The case of Chinese urban youth

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12655000
AutoresFengshu Liu (0000-0003-3599-3279, University of Oslo, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen13
Número1
Páginas7-22
Fecha de publicación2010-05-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1461444809360701
OpenAlexW2112611190
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas24

The strong concern in Chinese society about young people and the internet suggests a norm about how to relate to the net, reflecting and transcending the tension found in other societies between the societal expectations of the internet and young people’s actual uses of it. This article explores how the tension between different internet discourses in China is being played out in young people’s negotiation of a ‘proper’ wired self. Adopting a discourse analysis approach, the study shows that the participants drew on three interrelated dual interpretative repertoires. The duality inherent in these repertoires allows the informants to position themselves either as the rational, responsible and mature users or the opposite, and people who use the net differently from themselves as the ‘other’

China · Dual (grammatical number · Linguistics · Negotiation · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Law · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology