Net Inclusion: New Media’s Impact on Deliberative Politics in China

Lewis, Orion A.

doi:10.1080/00472336.2013.769387

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“…The result is a diversification of both media structures and media discourses and the development of a pluralistic public sphere in which alternative discourses can exist alongside propaganda [36,62]. Scholars have argued that online media are less controlled than print media ( [35], 684-688) and identified the emergence of alternative discourses in media such as SMS [26], blogs [16] and microblogs ( [25] author removed a). However, the development of investigative journalism demonstrates that alternative discourses are not confined to online media, but can also be found in print media such as commercial newspapers [23,45].…”

Section: Discourse Politics and Governmentalitymentioning

confidence: 96%

From Being a Problem to Having Problems: Discourse, Governmentality and Chinese Migrant Workers

Gleiss

2015

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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This article analyzes the political effects of the new discourse on Chinese migrant workers that emerged in the 2000s, and how this discourse is contested by an alternative discourse. The article demonstrates how the new discourse has facilitated socialist-liberal governance by transforming migrant workers into self-governing individuals. Moreover, the article argues that socialist-liberal governmentality is based on a post-political understanding that promotes a society without structural differences and reformulates social problems as individual deficiencies. Based on a discourse analysis of Chinese newspaper coverage, the article analyzes how this post-political myth is contested by an alternative understanding of society that repoliticizes migrant workers and their problems. In conclusion, the analysis points to how media discourses can contest governmental projects.

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Section: Discourse Politics and Governmentalitymentioning

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From Being a Problem to Having Problems: Discourse, Governmentality and Chinese Migrant Workers

Gleiss

2015

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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“…(Interview 13) Although labour NGOs do not formally represent migrant workers, they may act in the interests of migrant workers and communicate their voices to policymakers, journalists, scholars, and the general public. 53 Traditional input institutions such as the letters and visits (信访) offices 54 now exist alongside new feedback channels, such as participatory budgeting, 55 online media, 56 and public hearings. The ACFTU's monopolistic position makes it difficult for labour NGOs to register as social organizations.…”

Section: Representative: Advocating Migrant Workers' Interestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Chinese labour NGOs legitimize their identity and voice

Gleiss

2014

China Information

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This article analyses the legitimation strategies of Chinese labour non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Given the relative newness of NGOs as an organizational form in China and the precarious space they operate in, their survival and development are not primarily a question of establishing autonomy and avoiding state control, as emphasized in the literature on Chinese associations, but rather a question of being perceived as legitimate social actors. This article conceptualizes legitimation as a form of communication in which NGOs articulate discursive elements in specific ways in order to legitimize their identity and voice. Drawing on interviews with 15 labour NGOs working with migrant workers, the article identifies three aspects of NGOs' legitimation work. First, the NGOs construct their identity and work as social and not political in nature, thus underscoring that they are non-governmental and not anti-governmental organizations. Second, the NGOs give voice to, or represent, migrant workers and their interests by engaging in different forms of advocacy. Third, the NGOs legitimize their voice by referring to their proximity to workers at the grass roots and their specialist knowledge about migrant workers' living and working conditions. In conclusion, the article argues that issues of power and discourse should be brought into the study of NGOs' legitimation work.In the post-Mao era, China has witnessed an 'associational revolution', 1 with an overall growth in both registered and unregistered associations. 2 While many of these associations are spin-offs from government agencies or staffed by current or former

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“…This paper addresses the stability of information consumer ratings of the importance of information quality dimensions over a five year period from 2007 to 2012. Young adult information consumers in China were selected for the focus of the study because their information consumption is occurring in an environment characterized by a very large number of users of the Internet and a rapidly shifting social and political environment (Lewis, 2013;Tai, 2014;Tong, 2009). This group of information consumers is particularly interesting, not only because of their rapidly changing environment, but also because their perceptions, behavior, and decisions are likely to have a large impact on the global business and political environment for the foreseeable future (Haan & Cheung, 2012;Osnos, 2012).…”

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Are Importance Ratings Stable? A Study of Perceptions of Information Quality

Klein¹,

Guo²,

Zhou³

2016

JMWAIS

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Information consumption in China occurs in a rapidly shifting social and political environment. Understanding this group of information consumers is likely to play an important role in business and political decision making globally for the foreseeable future. Ratings of the importance of the dimensions of information quality and the way in which these ratings have shifted over time shed light on the beliefs of this group of information consumers. This study reports the results of a nonpanel longitudinal study involving two surveys conducted in China over a five year period examining information consumer ratings of the importance of the dimensions of information quality. Results show that Chinese information consumers rate the information quality dimensions of believability, reputation, and value-added as less important at the end of the five year period than at the beginning and rate representational consistency and concise representation as more important at the end of the five year period than at the beginning.

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Net Inclusion: New Media’s Impact on Deliberative Politics in China

Cited by 29 publications

References 37 publications

From Being a Problem to Having Problems: Discourse, Governmentality and Chinese Migrant Workers

From Being a Problem to Having Problems: Discourse, Governmentality and Chinese Migrant Workers

How Chinese labour NGOs legitimize their identity and voice

Are Importance Ratings Stable? A Study of Perceptions of Information Quality

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