Publications

Publication details [#49917]

Weber, Ian and Lu Jia. 2007. Internet and self-regulation in China: the cultural logic of controlled commodification. Media, Culture & Society 29 (5) : 772–789.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | culture | economics | internet | self-monitoring

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper demonstrates how online media commercialization in China is balanced by a cultural logic and controlled commodification processes that reaffirm the government's central agency in the gradual transition towards a Chinese socialist-market economy.