Media boom and cyber culture: television and the Internet in China

Kang, Liu

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“…The rationale for a separate treatment of the websites of the Chinese news agencies here was that news agency reports by their very nature can presumably cover a wider range of themes relating to migration and be more regularly updated than information on the government websites. Concerning the investigation of BBSs, it was my intention to include them in the scope of the research so as to capture the putatively alternative visions and perceptions of migratory experiences to Russia, as BBSs are increasingly used as platforms for expressing a diversity of opinions on the Chinese Internet, which appeals to a very broad public (Giese 2005;Kang 2008;Zheng 2008).…”

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Chinese Migration to Russia as Revealed by Narratives in Chinese Cyberspace

Rabogoshvili

2012

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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The article provides a seminal analysis of the electronic resources in the Chinese cyberspace devoted to the labour migration of Chinese people to Russia. The author focuses on the online narratives and media stories published on three types of electronic resources – government websites of the northeast provinces of the PRC, online reports by the Chinese news agencies, and postings on bulletin board systems (BBSs) in order to find answers to the following research questions: 1. What is the role of Chinese migrants’ narratives circulated via different electronic resources on the Internet in the reproduction of the state-regulated imagination of Russia? 2. To what extent have different types of electronic resources (government websites, news agency websites, BBSs) been used to renegotiate this imagination? The research has revealed that the websites of PRC government bodies tend to convey a rather consolidated understanding of Russia as a destination country, frequently publishing the narratives of successful migrants online. The mass media reports tend to provide regular coverage of a broader range of themes related to migration, including those related to the legal and economic vulnerability of Chinese labour migrants in Russia. The semi-anonymous and non-official character of the bulletin board system in turn has allowed its participants to make enquiries about or engage in the discussions of aspects of migration that would never be covered or described in detail by official sources such as government websites.

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Chinese Migration to Russia as Revealed by Narratives in Chinese Cyberspace

Rabogoshvili

2012

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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Reimagining Affection in a Changing Shanghai

Lopez-Mugica

Whyke

2023

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The article examines the dynamics of space surrounding Shanghai’s rampant urban change as experienced by the Chinese artistic duo known as Birdhead. Underpinned by the conceptual framework of the “affective turn”, this study reflects upon and addresses how the photographer’s chaotic photo-essay of Shanghai’s new state housing (Xincun, New Village, 2008) can function as a nexus of place-making. With a claim to impetuous emotion in his works, Birdhead’s contemporary photography pervades a plane of subjects, objects, and affections, in which the city is imagined and experienced as space-body performativity. Understanding Birdhead’s everyday urban practices as performative, we claim that the visual performance of these photographs not just materially shapes the bodies, but also acts as a rhizomatic catalyst for both things-in-themselves and webs of social affection inside and outside Shanghai. As a contribution, this article’s theoretical application to Birdhead’s everyday networks of unruly and frenzied emotional tactics challenges the official formulation of realism. More importantly, their contemporary photography apprehends and territorializes elements of anarchy, at the very same time deterritorializing the omnipresent affective strategies of a propagandistic post-socialist apparatus that pressures the positive over “other” emotional representations of Shanghai.

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Media boom and cyber culture: television and the Internet in China

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Chinese Migration to Russia as Revealed by Narratives in Chinese Cyberspace

Chinese Migration to Russia as Revealed by Narratives in Chinese Cyberspace

Reimagining Affection in a Changing Shanghai

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