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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mathew Yates, Reza Hasmath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-12-01
Series:The Journal of Chinese Sociology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40711-017-0067-0