Nationalisms on China’s evolving internet

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13019705
AutoresFlorian Schneider (0000-0001-7490-2187, Leiden University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen9
Número4
Páginas426-430
Fecha de publicación2024-08-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCommunication and the Public (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2057-0473 • E-ISSN: 2057-0481
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/20570473241270580
OpenAlexW4401485957
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas23

As China’s internet has matured, from its initial web-based origins through innovative ‘2.0’ and ‘3.0’ innovations, so too have the community sentiments that criss-cross the People’s Republic of China’s networked society. A perennial issue has been the question of how Chinese nationhood has been constructed and reproduced through digital technologies and how the evolving affordances of internet technology have contributed to China’s many nationalisms. This short essay reflects on this history. It discusses how early internet forums and blogs allowed users to coordinate their sense of Chineseness, how these processes later changed when communication moved to widely adopted microblogging platforms and what we can expect of the future, as China’s media environments shift their focus towards short-messaging applications and video-sharing platforms. What will happen to Chinese nationalisms as China’s platformisation enters its next phases

Archaeology · China · Geography · The Internet · World Wide Web · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Computer Science · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics