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Working-Class Network Society

Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China

By: Jack Linchuan Qiu

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Working-Class Network Society

Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China

By: Jack Linchuan Qiu

An examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China. The idea of the “digital divide,” the great social division between information haves and have-nots, has dominated policy debates and scholarly analysis since the 1990s. In Working-Class Network Society, Jack Linchuan Qiu describes a more complex social and technological reality in a newly mobile, urbanizing China. Qiu argues that as inexpensive Internet and mobile phone services become available and are closely integrated with the everyday work and life of low-income communities, they provide a critical seedbed for the emergence of a new working class of “network labor” crucial to China's economic boom. Between the haves and have-nots, writes Qiu, are the information “have-less”: migrants, laid-off workers, micro-entrepreneurs, retirees, youth, and others, increasingly connected by cybercafés, prepaid service, and used mobile phones. A process of class formation has begun that has important implications for working-class network society in China and beyond. Qiu brings class back into the scholarly discussion, not as a secondary factor but as an essential dimension in our understanding of communication technology as it is shaped in the vast, industrializing society of China. Basing his analysis on his more than five years of empirical research conducted in twenty cities, Qiu examines technology and class, networked connectivity and public policy, in the context of massive urban reforms that affect the new working class disproportionately. The transformation of Chinese society, writes Qiu, is emblematic of the new technosocial reality emerging in much of the Global South.

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MIT Press

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026217006X

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9780262170062

Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society

By: Yujie Chen,Zhifei Mao,Jack Linchuan Qiu

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Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society

By: Yujie Chen,Zhifei Mao,Jack Linchuan Qiu

This book provides a balanced and nuanced study of how the super-sticky WeChat platform interweaves into the fabric of Chinese social, cultural, and political life. It keeps the wider global and national social media landscape in view and compares and contrasts WeChat with Weibo, QQ and other Western social media platforms.

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162

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1787439445

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9781787439443

Goodbye iSlave

A Manifesto for Digital Abolition

By: Jack Linchuan Qiu

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Goodbye iSlave

A Manifesto for Digital Abolition

By: Jack Linchuan Qiu

Welcome to a brave new world of capitalism propelled by high tech, guarded by enterprising authority, and carried forward by millions of laborers being robbed of their souls. Gathered into mammoth factory complexes and terrified into obedience, these workers feed the world's addiction to iPhones and other commodities--a generation of iSlaves trapped in a global economic system that relies upon and studiously ignores their oppression. Focusing on the alliance between Apple and the notorious Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, Jack Linchuan Qiu examines how corporations and governments everywhere collude to build systems of domination, exploitation, and alienation. His interviews, news analysis, and first-hand observation show the circumstances faced by Foxconn workers--circumstances with vivid parallels in the Atlantic slave trade. Ironically, the fanatic consumption of digital media also creates compulsive free labor that constitutes a form of bondage for the user. Arguing as a digital abolitionist, Qiu draws inspiration from transborder activist groups and incidents of grassroots resistance to make a passionate plea aimed at uniting--and liberating--the forgotten workers who make our twenty-first-century lives possible.

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310

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University of Illinois Press

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0252099060

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9780252099069

Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society

By: Yujie Chen,Zhifei Mao,Jack Linchuan Qiu

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1787430928

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Working-Class Network Society

Working-Class Network Society

Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society

Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society

Goodbye iSlave

Goodbye iSlave

Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society

Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society

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