TY - CHAP
T1 - The struggle between subaltern nationalisms and the nation-state in the digital age
T2 - China and its ethnic minorities
AU - Lo, Kwai Cheung
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 selection and editorial material, Larissa Hjorth and Olivia Khoo.
PY - 2015/11/6
Y1 - 2015/11/6
N2 - Technology-determined understandings of how the Internet can change society are usually not very accurate since the Internet’s impacts are always filtered through the structures and contexts of a particular society. Technological determinism tends to be flawed because it is more often the way in which a society receives and makes use of technologies that defines their technological significance. Perhaps, the Internet should not be simply treated as a transforming agent of society but more importantly as a channel for understanding the functioning of power and struggle in a given society.
AB - Technology-determined understandings of how the Internet can change society are usually not very accurate since the Internet’s impacts are always filtered through the structures and contexts of a particular society. Technological determinism tends to be flawed because it is more often the way in which a society receives and makes use of technologies that defines their technological significance. Perhaps, the Internet should not be simply treated as a transforming agent of society but more importantly as a channel for understanding the functioning of power and struggle in a given society.
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UR - https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-New-Media-in-Asia/Hjorth-Khoo/p/book/9781138026001
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U2 - 10.4324/9781315774626-36
DO - 10.4324/9781315774626-36
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84960243539
SN - 9781138026001
SN - 9780367472962
SP - 352
EP - 363
BT - Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia
A2 - Hjorth, Larissa
A2 - Khoo, Olivia
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -