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 creativi...(展开全部)

作者杨国斌，美国宾西法尼亚大学安南堡传播学院及社会学系副教授（终身教授职）。主要研究方向为文化社会学、政治社会学、国际传播、社会学理论、传播学理论、叙事学等。担任《中国季刊》(The China Quarterly)、《当代社会学》(Contemporary Sociology) 及《公共文化》(Public Culture) 等重要英美学术刊物编委。1993年获北京外国语大学英美文学博士学位(文学翻译方向)，师从王佐良教授； 2000年获美国私立纽约大学 (NYU)社会学博士学位，师从Craig Calhoun教授。其专著The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online获2010年度美国社会学学会信息与传播技术分会最佳图书奖。另有《文心雕龙英译》(大中华文库，外语教学与研究出版社...(展开全部)

It is widely recognized that internet technology has had a profound effect on political participation in China, but this new use of technology is not unprecedented in Chinese history. This is a pioneering work that systematically describes and analyzes the manner in which the Chinese used telegraphy during the late Qing, and the internet in the contemporary period, to participa...(展开全部)

周永明，美国威斯康辛大学麦迪逊校区人类学系教授。曾任美国华盛顿著名智库威尔逊中心、英国剑桥李约瑟研究所以及新加坡国立大学东亚研究所研究员。研究领域为历史和政治人类学。主要兴趣集中在民族国家建构、全球化、海外民族志以及探讨道路与社会关系的“路学”研究。除本书外，作者还著有《二十世纪中国的禁毒运动：民族主义，历史与国家建设》，即将由商务印书馆出版。

It is widely recognized that internet technology has had a profound effect on political participation in China, but this new use of technology is not unprecedented in Chinese history. This is a pioneering work that systematically describes and analyzes the manner in which the Chinese used telegraphy during the late Qing, and the internet in the contemporary period, to participa...(展开全部)

周永明，美国威斯康辛大学麦迪逊校区人类学系教授。曾任美国华盛顿著名智库威尔逊中心、英国剑桥李约瑟研究所以及新加坡国立大学东亚研究所研究员。研究领域为历史和政治人类学。主要兴趣集中在民族国家建构、全球化、海外民族志以及探讨道路与社会关系的“路学”研究。除本书外，作者还著有《二十世纪中国的禁毒运动：民族主义，历史与国家建设》，即将由商务印书馆出版。

AcclaimedWashington Postreporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off. For over a decade, Taylor Lorenz has been the authority on internet culture, documenting its far-reaching effects on all corners of our lives. Her reporting is serious yet en...(展开全部)

A terrific history of the online creator economy.' The New York Times 'This book is about a revolution. It has radically upended how we've understood and interacted with our world. It has demolished traditional barriers and empowered millions who were previously marginalized. It has created vast new sectors of our economy, while devastating legacy institutions. It is often dism...(展开全部)

Computers have changed not just the way we work but the way we love. Falling in and out of love, flirting, cheating, even having sex online have all become part of the modern way of living and loving. Yet we know very little about these new types of relationship. How is an online affair where the two people involved may never see or meet each other different from an affair in t...(展开全部)

The Internet in China examines the cultural and political ramifications of the Internet for Chinese society. The rapid growth of the Internet has been enthusiastically embraced by the Chinese government, but the government has also rushed to seize control of the virtual environment. Individuals have responded with impassioned campaigns against official control of information. T...(展开全部)