East Asian Languages and Cultures
Undergraduate and Graduate Seminar
Class Time TBD
This course introduces Chinese internet culture by examining interactive literary communities, multimedia platforms, cyber-nationalism, web-based activism, and the possibility of the internet commons in mainland China. We will pay close attention to the figure of netizen, online piracy, cyberbullying, censorship, and growing addiction to virtual reality among the Chinese youth. Topics of discussion include, for example, the tension between connectivity and control, between imitation and innovation, and between the real and the virtual. We will explore these new developments in media technology primarily from social, political, and international perspectives. The goal is to understand how the rapid proliferation of digital technologies has helped create a new landscape of popular culture across mass media and transformed contemporary Chinese society.
Link to Vergil
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