1. BEYOND MUNDANE MEDIA
--New Media and Political Changes in China
Jun Liu
liujun@hum.ku.dk
H-STAR & Department of Communication
Stanford Univeristy
Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
University of Copenhagen

2. New Media and Political Changes in China
• China: the largest authoritarian state in the world
the world’s largest internet (538 m) and mobile phone
(1 bn) population.

3. How Chinese people use new media to change politics and
democracy?
Overt Resistance and Rebellion: New Media Activism

4. How Chinese people use new media to change politics and
democracy?
Covert Resistance (Scott, 1985, 1990) :
The political implication of everyday use of new media

5. How Chinese people use new media to change politics and
democracy?

6. Air Pollution Apps: Official data v.s. American data

7. Thank You