傳播科技與新媒體事件

This special issue of Communication and Society consists of six articles that examine the ongoing social, technological, political, and cultural dynamics in China's Internet-facilitated media events. Following the 2009 special issue of Communication and Society on ＂new media events＂ (Issue 9), this current issue continues to interrogate questions of power, online discourse, and structures of feeling / emotions, but under new technological conditions (e.g., mobile Internet) and new institutional settings (e.g., Beijing's centralized efforts of Internet control). It breaks new grounds by deploying digital methods (e.g., data mining of Weibo), broadening the empirical scope of analysis (e.g., connecting new and old media), and developing key concepts tailored to the Chinese contexts (e.g., yuqing or public opinion under the auspices of government control) but with global relevance (e.g., ＂agenda diversity＂). Among the 12 authors who wrote these 6 articles, 5 were graduate students currently studying in mainland China or the USA. This is an important indicator about the vitality of this research field with notable emerging scholarship. Most important, technological improvement cannot be equated with sociopolitical and institutional progress. Despite past trends of grassroots empowerment and bottom-up challenges to conventional consensus-building ＂media events＂, Chinese Internet has become increasingly dominated by traditional political-economic forces of the party-state, even to the extent that it makes sense to speak of ＂old＂ media events in online public opinion processes.

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