Understanding China through Digital Anthropology
Understanding China through Digital Anthropology questions our understanding of digital technologies by demonstrating fundamental differences in the meaning of both technology and the digital between China and the West. This follows from a longstanding historical divergence in the meaning of and att...
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2026
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| description | Understanding China through Digital Anthropology questions our understanding of digital technologies by demonstrating fundamental differences in the meaning of both technology and the digital between China and the West. This follows from a longstanding historical divergence in the meaning of and attitude to the relationship between technology and humanity. The book also challenges our understanding of China through a series of case studies that range from the creation of algorithms, the normative basis of social media and the impact of digital communication on diverse fields including economic practices, gender, media and healthcare. These further demonstrate the value of long-term ethnographic studies that situate people’s online activities in their everyday offline lives. These case studies are testimony to the continued heterogeneity of China in covering sophisticated urban IT professionals, Tibetan villagers and grassroots women struggling to make a living. All of this contributes to a new understanding of a contemporary China that has been transformed by the sheer scale and dynamism manifested in the deployment of digital technologies. The book also includes an extensive summary of work undertaken by scholars inside China on digital anthropology and previously only available in Chinese. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1739692026-03-19T14:33:21Z Understanding China through Digital Anthropology Miller, Daniel Wang, Xinyuan China Technology Digital Society Economy Media Gender Education Health Heterogeneity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities Understanding China through Digital Anthropology questions our understanding of digital technologies by demonstrating fundamental differences in the meaning of both technology and the digital between China and the West. This follows from a longstanding historical divergence in the meaning of and attitude to the relationship between technology and humanity. The book also challenges our understanding of China through a series of case studies that range from the creation of algorithms, the normative basis of social media and the impact of digital communication on diverse fields including economic practices, gender, media and healthcare. These further demonstrate the value of long-term ethnographic studies that situate people’s online activities in their everyday offline lives. These case studies are testimony to the continued heterogeneity of China in covering sophisticated urban IT professionals, Tibetan villagers and grassroots women struggling to make a living. All of this contributes to a new understanding of a contemporary China that has been transformed by the sheer scale and dynamism manifested in the deployment of digital technologies. The book also includes an extensive summary of work undertaken by scholars inside China on digital anthropology and previously only available in Chinese. 2026-03-19T14:33:20Z 2026-03-19T14:33:20Z 2026-03-02T18:08:07Z 2026 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111078 9781800089914 9781800089921 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/173969 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/111078/1/9781800089914.pdf UCL Press UCL Press 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 9781800089914 9781800089921 UCL Press London open access |
| spellingShingle | China Technology Digital Society Economy Media Gender Education Health Heterogeneity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities Understanding China through Digital Anthropology |
| title | Understanding China through Digital Anthropology |
| title_full | Understanding China through Digital Anthropology |
| title_fullStr | Understanding China through Digital Anthropology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding China through Digital Anthropology |
| title_short | Understanding China through Digital Anthropology |
| title_sort | understanding china through digital anthropology |
| topic | China Technology Digital Society Economy Media Gender Education Health Heterogeneity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities |
| topic_facet | China Technology Digital Society Economy Media Gender Education Health Heterogeneity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities |
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