Overview
- Examines emerging forms of citizenship in young people's everyday online participation on the Chinese Internet
- Highlights how citizenship is practiced with Chinese young people's everyday digital lives
- Reveals the meaning of the participatory activities for how young people learn and enact new forms of citizenship
Part of the book series: Perspectives on Children and Young People (PCYP, volume 12)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Social Citizenship in Chinese Young People
- Cultural Citizenship in Chinese Young People
- Chinese Young People’s Everyday Online Activities
- Young People and the Chinese Internet
- Young People and Identity Performance
- Young People and Citizenship Learning
- Young People and Political Subjectivity
- Youth Participation
- Prefigurative Politics
- Collectivity in Young People’s Online Practices
- Belonging in Young People’s Online Practices
- Identification in Young People’s Online Practices
- Citizenship Learning in China
- Citizenship Practice in China
- Young People and Weibo
- Young People and WeChat
- Young People in China
About this book
This book examines how emerging forms of citizenship are shaped by young people in digital spaces as way of making sense of contemporary Chinese society, forming new identities, and negotiating social and political participation. By focusing on Chinese young adults' everyday online practices, the book offers a unique treatment of the topic of young people and the Chinese Internet that navigates between the dominant focus on censorship on the one hand and protest and politicized action on the other.
The book brings the focus of research from highly visible or spectacular forms of collectivity, belonging, and identification exhibited in young people's online practices to young people's everyday social and cultural engagement through new media. It brings new insights by understanding the meanings of young people's mundane and everyday online engagement for their citizenship learning, identity performance, and their formation of political subjectivity. Readers will gain insightsinto citizenship in China, and young people and the Chinese Internet.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Jun Fu is a research fellow at the Youth Research Collective, Melbourne Graduate School of Education. He received his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University of Melbourne and his bachelor’s degree in education from the Northwest Normal University, China. His research interests include digital media, citizenship practices of young people, and media and digital literacy education, with a focus on Chinese young people. He has published in journals and edited book collections in the field of youth studies and citizenship education. In 2018, he joined the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, as a research fellow, working on Life Patterns longitudinal research project.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digital Citizenship in China
Book Subtitle: Everyday Online Practices of Chinese Young People
Authors: Jun Fu
Series Title: Perspectives on Children and Young People
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5532-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5531-9Published: 21 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5534-0Published: 22 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-5532-6Published: 20 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2365-2977
Series E-ISSN: 2365-2985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 167
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Media Sociology, Educational Policy and Politics, Political Sociology, Asian Politics