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How Chinese People Use the Internet

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This part of the book investigates the role and the framework of Chinese civil society. First, some translation issues are defined. The second part of this section defines a general overview of Chinese Internet users analyzing the most important historical trends through the collection of the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) reports. This chapter also includes 28 interviews divided in three groups: Chinese scholars and think tanks; employees of the most popular Chinese Internet platforms at that time; media and Internet experts. Moreover, this section also includes the presentation of key phenomena such as Shanzhai 山寨, E’gao 恶搞 and online neologisms. Finally, three government online government strategies are presented (management of public opinion, channeling of public opinion and struggle with public opinion).

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Negro, G. (2017). How Chinese People Use the Internet. In: The Internet in China. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60405-3_4

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