When a joke is more than a joke: humor as a form of networked practice in the Chinese cyber public sphere
Abstract Received wisdom views political humor, viz. egao, in the Chinese cyber public sphere as a form of resistance. This study creates and tests a framework that best conceptualizes how different functions of egao are connected with one another: to analyze the patterns of ties that link the diffe...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2017-12-01
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Series: | The Journal of Chinese Sociology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40711-017-0067-0 |