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A Political Ecology of Information: Media and the Dilemma of State Power in China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Political Ecology of Information: Media and the Dilemma of State Power in China./
Author:	Miller, Michael L.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	261 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-09A(E).
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10269023
ISBN:	9781369746600

A Political Ecology of Information: Media and the Dilemma of State Power in China.
Miller, Michael L.

A Political Ecology of Information: Media and the Dilemma of State Power in China. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 261 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2017.

In this dissertation, I employ a Weberian concept of social power in order to theorize the challenges posed by, and the varieties of state response to, the dilemma of state power: the need of all states to empower societies with social capacities that may, in turn, threaten state interests. Through a comparison of traditional and new forms of media in China, I show that rather than posing qualitatively new types of challenges to authoritarian states, new media exacerbate the dilemma of state power. They do so because along each of three dimensions of social control, new media shift the relationship between social actors and the means of social power away from conditions most conducive to state intervention. Although the state's most comprehensive interventions into society are direct, centralized, and preemptive, exercised over social capacities that are expropriated, concentrated, and dependent, new media engender conditions in which critical social capacities---to author, publish, distribute, or consume media content---are held privately, diffusely, and may be employed more independently.

ISBN: 9781369746600Subjects--Topical Terms:

528916
Political science.

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520 $a Case studies from China support my contention that the kinds of interventions states make in order to control political speech reflect interactions between states and social actors constrained by distinct features of the various media ecologies within which media are employed. These interventions vary, not simply between new and traditional forms of media, but also among the traditional media and, indeed, within them. Thus, lessons about how control would be exercised over new media were foreshadowed by how control was exercised over traditional forms of media.
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