BEYOND MUNDANE MEDIA

--New Media and Political Changes in China

Jun Liu

liujun@hum.ku.dk

H-STAR & Department of CommunicationStanford Univeristy

Department of Media, Cognition and CommunicationUniversity of Copenhagen

New Media and Political Changes in China

• China: the largest authoritarian state in the world

the world’s largest internet (538 m) and mobile phone (1 bn) population.

How Chinese people use new media to change politics and democracy?

Overt Resistance and Rebellion: New Media Activism

How Chinese people use new media to change politics and democracy?

Covert Resistance (Scott, 1985, 1990) :The political implication of everyday use of new media

How Chinese people use new media to change politics and democracy?

Air Pollution Apps: Official data v.s. American data

Thank You

Jun Liu

liujun@hum.ku.dk

H-STAR & Department of Communication

Stanford University

Department of Media, Cognition and

Communication

University of Copenhagen