Resistance in digital China : the Southern Weekly incident

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The 2013 Southern Weekly Incident and Resistance in Digital China
	Resistance in digital China defined
	Resistance of Chinese journalists within the system
	Southern Weekly and the media environment in Guangdong
	The Southern Weekly Incident
	Approach and structure
Meanings of Resistance in Digital China: Connectivity, Embodiment and the Construction of a Chinese Public Sphere
	Online contention and civic connectivity in digital China
		Collective action and connective logic in the digital age
		Mechanisms of mobilization in digital China
	Identity, individuality and embodiment in digital China
		Cultural quests for identities in modern China
		Identity, individuality and embodiment
	Constructing the Chinese public sphere
	Inspecting the conception of the public sphere in China
		Internet control and neoliberalism in China
		Commercial culture and communicative capitalism on the internetin China
The Southern Weekly Incident: Timeline, Investigation and Political Milieu
	Outline of the incident
	Investigation
	The political milieu of Guangdong and the timing of the Southern Weekly Incident
The Southern Weekly Incident Unfolds: From
Mobilization to Division
	Contesting censorship: Contention on Weibo
	Seizing control of the Weibo account: The powerstruggle within Southern Weekly
	Truth! Truth! – A race against deletion
	Go to the street? – Division and dissolution
	Conclusion: Mobilization and compromises
Mechanisms of Connectivity and Experience of Embodiment: Identity, Individuality and Memory
	Journalists from Southern Weekly: ‘The passive initiator’
	Journalists from outside Southern Weekly: ‘We had been suffering for a long time’
	Citizens and readers: ‘We came to mourn the deathof our beloved newspaper’
	Activists: ‘It is a great issue to use’
	Conclusion: Connectivity without consensus
Implications of the Southern Weekly Incident: Institutional Boundaries, Self-Restriction and Complex Ideologies in China
	Institutional culture of Chinese media
	A delicate choice: Self-censoring, self-restriction and political maturity
	The complex ideologies and elusive democracy in China
Resistance in Digital China and an Elite-Led, Emotional Chinese Public Sphere: Conclusion and Discussion
Appendix A: List of Interviewees
References
Index