TY  - JOUR
AU  - Xing, Guoxin
JF  - Javnost-The Public
TI  - Online Activism and Counter-public Spheres: A Case Study of Migrant Labour Resistance
VL  - 19
IS  - 2
PY  - 2012
SN  - 1854-8377
PB  - EURICOM
UR  - https://javnost-thepublic.org/article/2012/2/4/
N2  - China’s state-controlled and commercialised media
and Internet ecology has inherent limitations in representing
the interests of workers as industrial citizens. Drawing
upon Western scholars’ theoretical critiques of “the public
sphere” and historical literature on workers’ struggle for
autonomous communication in post-revolutionary China,
this paper uses an extended case study to establish a
two-pronged analysis that demonstrates the progressively
exclusionary and pro-capitalist nature of China’s existing
public sphere on the one hand and workers’ appropriation
of available technological means for autonomous communicative
practice on the other. It points to the potential
constitution of Chinese labour as counter-publics in China’s
deeply divided class society.
U1  - Print ISSN: 1318-3222
ER  -