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Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in China
eBook - Becoming Activists over Wild Public Networks, Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
ISBN/EAN: 9781793606136
Umbreit-Nr.: 2270806
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 218 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 05.07.2019
Auflage: 1/2019
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span>Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in China: Becoming Activists over Wild Public Networks</span><span>builds upon existing social movement scholarship in communication studies, China studies, and sociology by analyzing Chinas vibrant contemporary environmental protests. Using news reports, social media feeds, and conversations with witnesses and participants in the protests, Elizabeth Brunner examines three important antiparaxylene (PX) protests: the 2007 protests in Xiamen, the 2011 protests in Dalian, and the 2014 protests in Maoming. Brunner argues for the treatment of protests as</span><span>forces majeure</span><span> and asserts the legitimacy of wild public networks. Brunner stresses that scholars must take a networked approach to social movements as new media become valid platforms for furthering social change, especially in areas where censorship is common.<br><br></span>
- Kurztext
- <span>This book</span> <span> </span> <span>is an in-depth study on the use of social media in environmental activism in China. The author weaves together post-structuralist theory, media theory, social movement theory, and environmental communication studies to analyze concepts such as wild public networks and </span> <span>force majeure </span> <span>in the context of contemporary social movements.</span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span>Elizabeth Brunner</span><span> is assistant professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Persuasion at Idaho State University.</span>