Foreword
Guobin Yang
Preface
Introduction
A New Agenda: Digital Media and Civic Engagement in Networked China
Wenhong Chen and Stephen D. Reese
PART I. Digital Media Technologies and Civic Engagement: Implications, Conditions, and Contradictions
1
Internet Use, Socio-Geographic Context and Citizenship Engagement: A Multilevel Model on the Democratizing Effects of the Internet in China
Baohua Zhou
2
Networked Anti-Corruption: Actors, Styles and Mechanisms
Jia Dai, Fanxu Zeng, and Xin Yu
3
Memetic Engagement as Middle Path Resistance: Contesting Mainland Chinese Immigration and Social Cohesion
Pauline Hope Cheong and Yashu Chen
4
Engaging Government for Environmental Collective Action: Political Implications of ICTs in Rural China
Rong Wang
5
Mobile Activism and Contentious Politics in Contemporary China
Jun Liu
6
Campaigning on Weibo: Independent Candidates' Use of Social Media in Local People's Congress Elections in China
Fei Shen
PART II. Glocalized Media Space: Emergence, Composition, and Function
7
The Unintended Consequences of Deliberative Discourse: A Democratic Attempt for HIV NGOs in China
Samuel Galler
8
The Importance of "Bridges" in the Global News Arena: A Network Study of Bridge Blogs about China
Nan Zheng
9
Online Political Discussion in English and Chinese: The Case of Bo Xilai
Ericka Menchen-Trevino and Yuping Mao
10
Fandom of Foreign Reality TV Shows in the Chinese Cyber Sphere
Weiyu Zhang and Lize Zhang
11
The New Political of Mediated Activism in China: A Critical Review
Elaine Yuan