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Internet Activism, Trans-National Public Sphere, and State Activation Apparatus: A Case Study of Anti-Japanese Protest

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Examining the course of online and offline anti-Japanese protests in China that purported to oppose Japans ascension into the United Nation Security Council in 2005, this paper attempts to interrogate the role Internet could play in the communication of international affairs with regard to the two themes of nationalism and civil society in Chinese society. This paper argues that, even though the Internet could facilitate the formation of public opinion, the orchestration of popular political movements and the production of a transnational public sphere, it does not necessarily mean a promotion to the growth of domestic civil society in Mainland China. This contradiction exists because the crucial element underlying all these popular political communication is nationalism, which is indeed a double-edged sword to the Communist Party. The fact that the survivability of public opinion and popular nationalism can only exist when it is aligned with the interest of the state strongly demonstrates the function of the Internet as a state activation apparatus in online international political communicationa device by which the PRC government can employ to activate or make use of what is activated by the citizens through the medium of the internet to advance national interest in the international arena.

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Chow, Pui Ha. "Internet Activism, Trans-National Public Sphere, and State Activation Apparatus: A Case Study of Anti-Japanese Protest" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA, May 23, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p170051_index.html>

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Chow, P. , 2007-05-23 "Internet Activism, Trans-National Public Sphere, and State Activation Apparatus: A Case Study of Anti-Japanese Protest" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p170051_index.html

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Abstract: Examining the course of online and offline anti-Japanese protests in China that purported to oppose Japans ascension into the United Nation Security Council in 2005, this paper attempts to interrogate the role Internet could play in the communication of international affairs with regard to the two themes of nationalism and civil society in Chinese society. This paper argues that, even though the Internet could facilitate the formation of public opinion, the orchestration of popular political movements and the production of a transnational public sphere, it does not necessarily mean a promotion to the growth of domestic civil society in Mainland China. This contradiction exists because the crucial element underlying all these popular political communication is nationalism, which is indeed a double-edged sword to the Communist Party. The fact that the survivability of public opinion and popular nationalism can only exist when it is aligned with the interest of the state strongly demonstrates the function of the Internet as a state activation apparatus in online international political communicationa device by which the PRC government can employ to activate or make use of what is activated by the citizens through the medium of the internet to advance national interest in the international arena.

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Internet Activism Trans-national Public Sphere and State Activation Apparatus: A case study of Anti-Japanese Protests Impacts of the Internet on political communication in Mainland China have received wide scholastic concerns since its first introduction into the territory at the end of 1995 amongst which two themes are most frequently addressed: the forging of nationalism in the presupposed boundary-less Internet world (e.g Gries 2005 Qiu 2001) and the contribution of Internet to the formation of civil society (e.g. Yang 2003
anti-Japanese protests the New York Times April 26 2005 Zhao S.S (2004) “Chinese Nationalism and Pragmatic Foreign Policy Behavior” in Zhao ed. Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior Armonk N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe Zhang J. H. Will the government 'serve the people'? The development of Chinese e- government New Media and Society 4 (2): 163-184 Zhang Y. N. (1999) Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China: Modernization Identity and International Relations Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press Zhao Y.Z. (1998) Media


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