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A Cyberconflict Analysis Of Chinese Dissidents Focusing On Civil Society, Mass Incidents And Labour Resistance, Athina Karatzogianni, Andy Robinson

Athina Karatzogianni

This chapter is divided into three main sections. The first discusses the political environment in China to provide the context for dissent and involves a broad stroke on neoliberalism in China with a further discussion on censorship and control in this environment. A second section maps networked dissent in terms of the impact and use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in relation to civil society, mass incidents and labour resistance, and shows how it links to broader resistance in the global mediascape. The final section concentrates on nationalism and the symptomatic repression of ethnic and religious minorities, as well as …