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Social Dimensions of the Internet Economy

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This chapter mainly analyzes the connection between the Internet economy and social development by discussing the background and social foundation of the rise of the Internet economy as well as its influence on social development, and meanwhile combines the specific phenomena of the Internet economy such as the “online shopping lifestyle” and the “rise of online takeaway” to analyze and reflect on the social connotations behind the Internet economy from the theoretical perspective.

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  1. 1.

    Li Keqiang, Report on the Work of the Government – Delivered at the Third Session of the 12th National People’s Congress on March 5, 2015, “Leisure Agriculture and Beautiful Countryside”, 2015 (4).

  2. 2.

    Xi Jinping, Jointly Constructing a Community with a Shared Future for the Cyberspace, “Communication and Ideological and Cultural Work in Inner Mongolia”, 2015 (12).

  3. 3.

    [US] Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave, Beijing, SDX Joint Publishing Company, 1984.

  4. 4.

    [Ca] Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Page 33, Beijing, The Commercial Press, 2000.

  5. 5.

    Wang Jianmin, From “Hearsay” to “Reprint and Search” – the Temporal-Spatial Sociology Analysis of the Evolution of Approaches to Acquire Information, “Jianghuai Tribune”, 2011 (5).

  6. 6.

    Zhao Lichang, The Internet Economy and the Industrial Transformation and Upgrading in China, “Contemporary Economic Management”, 2015 (12).

  7. 7.

    Xu Jianwei, External Influence on Current Upgrading of the Industrial Structure in China and the Corresponding Countermeasures, “Economic Review”, 2014 (6).

  8. 8.

    Chen Jiagui, Adjusting and Optimizing the Industrial Structure to Promote the Sustainable Economic Development, “Journal of Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences”, 2011 (2).

  9. 9.

    [US] Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave, Page 242, Beijing, SDX Joint Publishing Company, 1984.

  10. 10.

    Sun Liping, Fracture – the Chinese Society since the 1990s, Page 14, Beijing, Social Sciences Academic Press, 2003.

  11. 11.

    Wang Jianmin, Conflicting Symbiosis of Modernity and Post-modernity in Chinese Society, “Social Science Review”, 2007 (2).

  12. 12.

    Sun Liping, Transformation and Fracture – the Evolution of Social Structure in China since the Reform, Page 110–111, Beijing, Tsinghua University Press, 2004.

  13. 13.

    China Internet Network Information Center, Research Report on Online Shopping Market in China in 2014, http://www.cnnic.net.cn/hlwfzyj/hlwxzbg/dzswbg/201509/P020150909354828731159.pdf

  14. 14.

    Yu Zhu, Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Economic and Social Development Based on Internet+, “Shanghai Securities News”, 20150507.

  15. 15.

    China Internet Network Information Center, The 37th Statistical Report on the Internet Network Development in China, http://cnnic.cn, 20160122.

  16. 16.

    Data comes from http://finance.qq.com/a/20151112/000722.htm, 20151212.

  17. 17.

    China Internet Network Information Center, The 37th Statistical Report on the Internet Network Development in China, http://cnnic.cn, 20160122.

  18. 18.

    China Internet Network Information Center, The 37th Statistical Report on the Internet Network Development in China, http://cnnic.cn, 20160122.

  19. 19.

    Xi Jinping, Jointly Constructing a Community with a Shared Future for the Cyberspace, “Communication and Ideological and Cultural Work in Inner Mongolia”, 2015 (12).

  20. 20.

    Peng Yao, Information Disclosure Is the “Vaccine” to Dispel Panic, “Farmers’ Daily”, 20160225.

  21. 21.

    Yu Zhu, Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Economic and Social Development Based on “Internet+”, “Shanghai Securities News”, 20150507.

  22. 22.

    Yu Zhu, Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Economic and Social Development Based on “Internet+”, “Shanghai Securities News”, 20150507.

  23. 23.

    Liu Shaojie, Evolution of the Social Structure in the Network Age, “Academic Monthly”, 2012 (10).

  24. 24.

    Wang Jianmin, Governance on Chinese Network Society During the Transition Period, Liu Shaojie, “2015 Research Report on Chinese Network Society”, Page 18, Beijing, China Renmin University Press, 2015.

  25. 25.

    The ideas about the digital divide in this chapter mainly refer to Hao Dahai and Wang Lei, Regional Difference or Social Structural Difference? – Multi-level Model Analysis of Digital Divide of Chinese Residents, “Academic Forum”, 2014 (12).

  26. 26.

    A Brief Analysis of the Differences among Domestic and Foreign O2O Takeaway Platforms, http://www.tui18.com/a/201506/0190604.shtml, 20150601.

  27. 27.

    Analysys Think Tank, 2016 Annual Report on Internet-based Food Takeaway in China, http://www.useit.com.cn/thread-117050101.html, 20160322.

  28. 28.

    Analysys Think Tank, 2016 Annual Report on Internet-based Food Takeaway in China, http://www.useit.com.cn/thread-117050101.html, 20160322.

  29. 29.

    Touzi Online, Ele Me Won an Investment of 1.25 Billion US Dollars from Alibaba and Reached an Assessed Value of 4.5 Billion US Dollars, https://www.touzi.com/news/01701844155.html, 20151225.

  30. 30.

    Analysys Think Tank, 2016 Annual Report on Internet-based Food Takeaway in China, http://www.useit.com.cn/thread-117050101.html, 20160322.

  31. 31.

    Kang Xingtao, A Study of the Development of Internet Food Takeaway, “Industry and Enterprises”, 2016 (3).

  32. 32.

    With 18,842 yuan for one hour, the teacher of online education earns more than the web celebrity, http://www.365qilu.com/news/11show/20160328/133719.html, 20160328.

  33. 33.

    [FR] Jean Baudrillard, Consumer Society, Page 13, Nanjing, Nanjing University Press, 2001.

  34. 34.

    Wang Jianmin, Symbolic and Dualistic Structure in Social Transformation – Micro-analysis of Power Centering on Migrant Workers, “Society”, 2008 (2); Wang Jianmin, The Flowing Boundary between Urban and Rural Areas, Beijing, Guangming Daily Press, 2012.

  35. 35.

    [FR] Pierre Bourdieu, [US] Loic Wacquant, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, Page 221-222, Beijing, Central Compilation & Translation Press, 2004.

  36. 36.

    [GER] Georg Simmel, Psychology of Coquettish Behavior, “Money, Gender and Modern Lifestyle”, Shanghai, East China Normal University Press, 2010.

  37. 37.

    [UK] Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, Page 18, Nanjing, Yilin Press, 2011.

  38. 38.

    [UK] Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity, Page 256, Shanghai, Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, 2002.

  39. 39.

    “Super rubbish” refers to an expensive thing that the buyer does not need and that is left unused or casted aside right after purchasing.

  40. 40.

    Ye Heng, Fan Minglin, “Super Rubbish” of Online Shopping: White-collar Youths in Cities Releasing Their Pressure, “China Youth Study”, 2013 (8).

  41. 41.

    The Next Economic Miracle is the Internet Economy, http://www.p5w.net/money/lczh/201411/t20141121_845123.htm, 20141121.

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Wang, J., Wang, C. (2020). Social Dimensions of the Internet Economy. In: Liu, S., Wang, J. (eds) The Internet Society in China. Sociology, Media and Journalism in China. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8237-6_1

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