Environmental Talk in the Chinese Green Public Sphere: A Comparative Analysis of Daily Green-Speak Across Three Chinese Online Forums

Sun, Yu; Graham, Todd; Broersma, Marcel

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61708-4_13

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“…Third spaces do not have a clear political purpose per se but become political when personal life and politics get connected during everyday conversations . As observed in previous studies, nonpolitical third spaces are of great significance for political engagement (Graham, 2012;Sun, Graham, & Broersma 2018, 2020Yan, Sivakumar, & Xenos, 2017). Bridging the personal and the political sphere, such third spaces nurture social-civic communications, such as social and expressive gestures that intersect with politics (Highfield, 2016).…”

Section: Everyday Political Talk Third Space and Chinese Internetmentioning

confidence: 77%

“…For instance, Chinese citizens often employ the speech act of complaining to express their dissatisfactions with the state regarding particular public issues due to the lack of opportunities to participate in collective action. As a form of citizen dialogue with state institutions, complaints shed light on citizens' subjectivities, civic practices, and power relations (Sun, Graham & Broersma, 2018, 2020. By taking into account these social-cultural codes that afford communicative acts significance and meanings in the authoritarian context of China, we aim to study how local social-civic culture meets Western norms of deliberation and the public sphere.…”

Section: The Theory Of the Public Sphere And Deliberative Democracymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Complaining and sharing personal concerns as political acts: how everyday talk about childcare and parenting on online forums increases public deliberation and civic engagement in China

Sun¹,

Graham²,

Broersma³

2021

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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Based on a comparative content analysis of political talk in three popular Chinese online forums (government-run, commercial-lifestyle, and commercial-topical), this paper investigates how the private and public spheres are connected thru everyday talk about childcare concerns. Compared to the government-run (party-state) forum, the nonpolitical (lifestyle and topical) forums created open and inclusive 'third spaces' for citizens to engage in child welfare politics. In such spaces, the reason, rule-based deliberation was not the dominant communicative practice. Rather, political (narrative) acts of complaining and sharing personal concerns -grounded in citizens' life experiences -were the norm, capturing and recognizing public problems in the private sphere. We argue that to understand the nature of political talk in Chinese third spaces, communicative acts that have not been considered central to deliberative reasoning, such as complaining and sharing personal concerns should be given more normative importance.

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Section: Everyday Political Talk Third Space and Chinese Internetmentioning

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Section: The Theory Of the Public Sphere And Deliberative Democracymentioning

confidence: 99%

Complaining and sharing personal concerns as political acts: how everyday talk about childcare and parenting on online forums increases public deliberation and civic engagement in China

Sun¹,

Graham²,

Broersma³

2021

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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“…In recent years, following Yang and Calhoun (2007) and Guo (2013), Sun et al (2018;2021) continued to shed light on the public sphere in China from the perspective of environmental politics. Since it is difficult for Chinese citizens to articulate their concerns about public issues through civic organizations or other formal means of participation, they have to participate in relevant discussions through informal ways (Sun et al, 2021), such as the online forum.…”

Section: Short Video Activism In Chinese Online Public Spherementioning

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“…Since it is difficult for Chinese citizens to articulate their concerns about public issues through civic organizations or other formal means of participation, they have to participate in relevant discussions through informal ways (Sun et al, 2021), such as the online forum. Sun et al (2018) investigated the ordinary Chinese citizens' everyday talk about online environmental talk on three online forums and demonstrated that these talks serve as an informal mechanism for the general public to directly participate in environmental politics in China.…”

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The emergence of “consumer sphere”: the logics behind short video activism tactics of Chinese consumers

2022

Media Asia

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Short-video-based social media platforms (short-video-based [SVB] platforms) are becoming a common tool for an increasing number of consumers to safeguard their legitimate interests in China. This article examines how Chinese consumers practice video activism by using short videos on Weibo to construct a consumer sphere for themselves to protect their legal demands. By interviewing 56 interviewees including consumers, media practitioners, public relations department (PR) officials, and relevant government officials in China, we find that short videos are more than a visible vehicle on SVB platforms which makes the voices of consumers being heard, but significantly, these platforms create a "consumer sphere" for the consumers who experienced right infringement to defend their rights. The discussion and sharing of these videos unite the consumers to bring the individual issue to the spotlight of the public. We conclude that as more consumers join the queue to share their encounters, a sphere is constructed by the use of mediated tactics.

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“…Deep and durable relationships between government and self is explored to explain people's subjectivities toward the environment. The emphasis on agency shifts in studies that have examined the production of a green public sphere through citizen actions: citizens produce green discourses in the process of new forms of civic engagement to change and cope with deteriorating environmental situations (Sun et al, 2018). Individual studies in this collection of articles draw from these traditions.…”

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The Environment as a Meta-narrative: Introduction to a Special Issue

Vasan

2021

Journal of Developing Societies

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Narratives about protecting, speaking/acting for the environment are ubiquitous in a wide variety of heterogenous social situations. The essays in this special issue examine the form, content, context and materiality of the discourse of environmental protection. Based on field studies in India, the essays each examine the discourses in and of the courtroom, logic of state bureaucracy, legitimating frames of neoliberal urban policy, regional development narratives and subjectivities developed in indigenous social movements against land acquisition. In each of these contexts the environment is invoked, sometimes in strategic or even instrumental ways; in others, a green discourse is normative, even constitutive of subjectivities of the people involved. It is shaped by material relations in each specific context. The malleability of form and content of the environmental narrative encourages its appropriation in multiple registers and allows meaningful expression of diverse material contestations through it. It is in this diversity of appropriation that we suggest that the environment is a meta-narrative of our times.

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Environmental Talk in the Chinese Green Public Sphere: A Comparative Analysis of Daily Green-Speak Across Three Chinese Online Forums

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Complaining and sharing personal concerns as political acts: how everyday talk about childcare and parenting on online forums increases public deliberation and civic engagement in China

Complaining and sharing personal concerns as political acts: how everyday talk about childcare and parenting on online forums increases public deliberation and civic engagement in China

The emergence of “consumer sphere”: the logics behind short video activism tactics of Chinese consumers

The Environment as a Meta-narrative: Introduction to a Special Issue

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