Internet as an ideology: nationalistic discourses, and multiple subject positions of Chinese internet workers.
Ideology works. This article examines how the Internet as a capital actor has become a nationalist ideology in China. Disclosing how nationalism serves to facilitate the expansion of China-based Internet platforms in the age of informational capitalism, we directly confront the Chinese Internet as a...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 367 - 382 |
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Jun2023
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