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Guobin Yang

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#2085

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Guobin Yang's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology Peking University

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According to Wikipedia, Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, Director of the Center on Digital Culture and Society, and deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. Yang received his first PhD from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1993 and his second PhD in sociology from New York University in 2000. His other former positions include being an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and as an associate professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College of Columbia University.

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Guobin Yang's Published Works

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Published Works

Environmental NGOs and Institutional Dynamics in China (2005) (414)
Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere in China (2007) (291)
The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009) (267)
Narrative Agency in Hashtag Activism: The Case of #BlackLivesMatter (2016) (245)
The Co-evolution of the Internet and Civil Society in China (2003) (228)
The Internet and Civil Society in China: A preliminary assessment (2003) (207)
The Internet and the Rise of a Transnational Chinese Cultural Sphere (2003) (183)
Contesting Food Safety in the Chinese Media: Between Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony (2013) (109)
Achieving Emotions in Collective Action: Emotional Processes and Movement Mobilization in the 1989 Chinese Student Movement (2000) (103)
The networked practice of online political satire in China: Between ritual and resistance (2015) (91)
Pollution and Protest in China: Environmental Mobilization in Context* (2013) (90)
The Liminal Effects of Social Movements: Red Guards and the Transformation of Identity (2000) (81)
How Do Chinese Civic Associations Respond to the Internet? Findings from a Survey (2007) (67)
Double-edged rituals and the symbolic resources of collective action: Political commemorations and the mobilization of protest in 1989 (2001) (55)
Nostalgia, Identity, and Cultural Resistance in the 1990s (2003) (54)
A Chinese Internet? History, practice, and globalization (2012) (54)
Re-envisioning the Chinese revolution : the politics and poetics of collective memories in reform China (2007) (50)
Political contestation in Chinese digital spaces: Deepening the critical inquiry (2014) (50)
Brokering Environment and Health in China: issue entrepreneurs of the public sphere (2010) (50)
The Return of Ideology and the Future of Chinese Internet Policy (2014) (49)
Internet Activism & the Party-State in China (2014) (46)
China Since Tiananmen: Online Activism (2009) (43)
Emotional events and the transformation of collective action: the Chinese student movement (2007) (40)
Technology and Its Contents: Issues in the Study of the Chinese Internet (2011) (38)
The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China (2016) (28)
The Internet as Cultural Form: Technology and the Human Condition in China (2009) (26)
Activists beyond Virtual Borders: Internet-Mediated Networks and Informational Politics in China (2006) (23)
(Un)civil Society in Digital China| Demobilizing the Emotions of Online Activism in China: A Civilizing Process (2018) (23)
Performing cyber-nationalism in twenty-first-century China (2019) (22)
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (2016) (20)
Civil Society in China: A Dynamic Field of Study (2003) (20)
A Civil Society Emerges From the Earthquake Rubble (2008) (19)
Media, power, and protest in China: from the cultural revolution to the internet (2008) (18)
The Wuhan Lockdown (2022) (14)
Lightness, wildness, and ambivalence: China and new media studies (2012) (13)
Remembering disappeared websites in China: Passion, community, and youth (2018) (13)
Alternative Genres, New Media and Counter Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (2010) (12)
Global Environmentalism Hits China (2004) (10)
Chinese Internet Literature and the Changing Field of Print Culture (2010) (10)
6. Contention in Cyberspace (2008) (10)
Online lockdown diaries as endurance art (2021) (8)
Social Media and Time (2015) (7)
Media Activism in the Digital Age (2017) (7)
The online translation activism of bridge bloggers, feminists, and cyber-nationalists in China (2017) (6)
Chapter 3. New Media Empowerment and State-Society Relations in China (2016) (6)
The Commercialization and Digitization of Social Movement Society (2016) (6)
The Curious Case of Jia Junpeng, or The Power of Symbolic Appropriation in Chinese Cyberspace (2009) (4)
New Media, Development and Globalization: Making Connections in the Global South (2015) (4)
INTRODUCTION.: Social Media and State-Sponsored Platformization in China (2021) (3)
Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China’s New Class (2010) (3)
'Accounts' of Information Technologies and an Information Society (2005) (3)
Historical imagination in the study of Chinese digital civil society (2009) (2)
INTERNET AND CIVIL SOCIETY (2011) (2)
The Routinization of Liminality: The Persistence of Activism Among China’s Red Guard Generation (2011) (2)
China's Legalists: The Earliest Totalitarians and Their Art of Ruling (review) (2011) (1)
A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949. By Tong Lam. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. xiv+263. $60.00. (2013) (1)
Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution (review) (2011) (1)
Techno-Social Generations and Communication Research (2016) (1)
Author's Response: The Growing Power of Internet Activism in China (2011) (1)
Introduction to historical constructions of journalistic communication in China: on three definitions of news (2016) (1)
Mao's Little Red Book: Mao quotations in factional battles and their afterlives (2014) (1)
Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces Edited by Jonathan Unger Armonk, NY and London: East Gate Books, 2008 275 pp. $32.95 ISBN 978-0-7656-1326-4 (2009) (1)
Reflexive Digitization and the Role of the University (2015) (0)
Introduction to Special Issue on digital formations and Chinese experiences (2018) (0)
The Internet and Rural Development in China: The Socio-Structural Paradigm (2009) (0)
5. UNDERGROUND CULTURE (2016) (0)
Urban Spaces and Publicity: A View of a Chinese City (2017) (0)
Building a Public Culture of Pandemic Storytelling (2023) (0)
Introduction to Special Forum on Digital Culture and Society (2020) (0)
From the editors (2016) (0)
Liang Congjie, Public Intellectuals, and Civil Society in China (2010) (0)
3. THEORY AND DISSENT (2016) (0)
Thank you to reviewers (2014) (0)
The 2010s (2021) (0)
6. NEW ENLIGHTENMENT (2016) (0)
POSTSCRIPT:: Environmental Communication between Confl ict and Performance (2020) (0)
2. FLOWERS OF THE NATION (2016) (0)
4. ORDINARY LIFE (2016) (0)
The people's standoff. (2013) (0)
Guobin Yang (ed.), China’s Contested Internet, (2019) (0)
NOTES ON DATA (2016) (0)
Acknowledgments (0)
Review: Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China’s New Class, by Joel Andreas. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. 344pp. $27.95 paper. ISBN: 9780804760782 (2010) (0)
Thank You Reviewers (2018) (0)
Finding Trust Online: Tigergate to the Sichuan Earthquakes (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (2008) (0)
1. VIOLENCE IN CHONGQING (2016) (0)
Professionalizing Research in Post-Mao China: The System Reform Institute and Policy Makingby Catherine H. Keyser (2003) (0)
Theory in a Global Context: A Critical Practice in Five Steps Theory in a Global Context: A Critical Practice in Five Steps (2022) (0)
Communication as Translation (2020) (0)
7. FACTIONALIZED MEMORIES (2016) (0)
POSTSCRIPT: (2020) (0)
4. ELECTRONIC MEDIA HISTORY (2010) (0)
Collective Memories in Reform China (2008) (0)
INTRODUCTION. (0)
Race and Ethnicity in America (2018) (0)

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