New Connectivities in China

- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1. Introduction
PART I.  THE INTERNET COMMUNICATION AND THE ISSUE OF CIVIL SOCIETY
Chapter 2. NPOs in China: Some Issues Concerning Internet Communication; Boxu Yang
Chapter 3. Dot the "I's" and Cross the "T's": A Sociological Interpretation of Chinese Cyberspace and Grace Wang Qianyuan Incident; Chung-tai Cheng
Chapter 4. Rage and Reflection: Chinese Nationalism Online Between Emotional Venting and Measured Opinion; David Kurt Herold
PART II. STUDIES ON mOBILE PHONE USES IN BEIJING
Chapter 5. Beijing Calling... Mobile Communication in Contemporary China; Leopoldina Fortunati, Anna Maria Manganelli, Pui-lam Law, Shanhua Yang
Chapter 6. The Mobile Face of Contemporary China; Leopoldina Fortunati, Anna Maria Manganelli, Pui-lam Law, Shanhua Yang
Chapter 7. A Preliminary Study on the Use of Mobile Phones amongst Migrant Workers in Beijing; Ke Yang
PART III. THE ICTs AND MIGRANT WORKERS IN SOUTHERN CHINA
Chapter 8. Mobile Cultures of Migrant Workers in Southern China: Informal Literacies in the Negotiation of (New) Social Relations of the New Working Women; Angel Lin and Alvin Tong
Chapter 9. Internet Use of Migrant Workers in the Pearl River Delta; Yinni Peng
Chapter 10. The Relationship of Mobile Telephony to Job Mobility in China's Pearl River Delta; Raymond Ngan and Stephen Ma
Chapter 11. Mobile Communication and the Issue of Identity: An Exploratory Study of the Uses of Camera Phone among Migrant Workers in Southern China; Pui-lam Law
PART IV. NEW NETWORK AND NEW IDENTIFICATION
Chapter 12. Beyond Privileges: New Media and the Issues of Glocalization in China; Boxu Yang
Chapter 13. The Principled Machine: A Socio-political Inquiry of Mobile Voting in Chinese Society; Chung-tai Cheng
Chapter 14. The Use of ICT Products and "White-collarization" of White Collars Workers: An Everyday-Life Perspective; Shanhua Yang and Jing Li
Chapter 15. Home and Away: A Case Study of Emerging Technocultures and

From the reviews:

"This book should become a bestseller because it hints at what is beyond the 'too big to fail' scale, even though that is not the subject of the book. ... a collection of carefully written, deeply articulate observations ... . almost every page brings the reader deeper into the upbeat context of a social scale that the West vaguely conceives as some eventual globalization. ... This is not just a must-read; it is a must-read and assimilate." (Chaim Schef, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2012)

From the reviews:

"New Connectivities in China: Virtual, Actual and Local Interactions delves into the emergent domain of information and communication technologies in China. ... unique in its depiction of varied scholarly perspectives that are integrated into a generally understandable, and readable, text. The message is sound, enlightening, and compelling. A wide-ranging analysis of this sort should not be avoided by any scholar, researcher, student, or enthusiast of mediated communication - especially those who draw critical interest in regional perspectives." (David McCoy, Mobile Media & Communication, Vol. 1 (2), 2013)

"This edited volume is an excellent documentation of technology-mediated everyday life in contemporary China. The book vividly describes how the rapid technologization of China has overlapped temporally with urbanization, industrialization, and the expansion of the service sector. It also describes how this enormous and rapid social change is intertwined with the norms and values of traditional Chinese culture. ... On the whole, the book is well worth reading for all who are curious to know how the Chinese communicate today." (Sakari Taipale, International Journal of Communication, Vol. 7, 2013)

"This book should become a bestseller because it hints at what is beyond the 'too big to fail' scale, even though that is not the subject of the book. ... a collection of carefully written, deeply articulate observations ... . almost every page brings the reader deeper into the upbeat context of a social scale that the West vaguely conceives as some eventual globalization. ... This is not just a must-read; it is a must-read and assimilate." (Chaim Schef, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2012)