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Shentu Hawii 0085A 10505.Pdf China’s Emerging Inter-network Society - The Rise of Public Advocacy in the Digital ‘Public Sphere’ A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCRATE OF PHILOSOPHY IN POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct. 2019 By Yu Jing Shen Tu Thesis Committee: Roger Ames Jairus Grove Carol Petersen Debbie Halbert Deane Neubauer Manfred Henningsen, Chairperson Keywords: network society, Inter-subjectivity, mass self-communication, advocacy, civil society networks, public sphere, communication, public opinion, public policy I The views expressed in this article are those of the author References to web pages (URLs) were accurate at the time of publishing. The author is not responsible for URLs that have changed since publication. Copyright © 2019 by Yu Jing Shen Tu All rights reserved II Dedicated to my parents, their sent-down youth generation & our future generation! This dissertation is dedicated to Guo Liang, Yu Lan, Yu Xing, Trudy Wang, Karren Uhr, Brenda Foster, Ralph Cossa, Tung Tsingling, Zhidao Wang and all my indeed friends, whose constant understanding and endless support throughout the entirety of this dissertation project was unwavering and inspirational in way that no words could ever quite describe. It is also in memory of Admiral. Joe Vasey, my great grandparents, and grandparents, those who had fought through the wars and revolutions for peace of our times. III Acknowledgements I wish to thank the members of my thesis committee: Dr. Debbie Halbert, Dr. Carole Petersen, Dr. Manfred Henningsen, Dr. Roger Ames, Dr. Deane Neubauer, Dr. Jarius Grove, who were all instrumental in starting me on this theoretical wave that I continue to ride. Their numerous academic and emotional supports raised me up to make this thesis possible, the knowledge gained from our conversations helped me think critically. I would also like to individually thank Dr. Manfred Henningsen and Dr. Roger Ame for taking me under their theoretical wing with guidance of masterful knowledge of philosophy. Thanks are also due to Dr. Dean Neaubauer’s input on global education and methodological considerations were also essential to the accomplishment of this research. The inclusion of the perspectives of intellectual property protection and the copyright campaign in this research is owed to Dr. Debbie Halbert, and especially to Dr. Carole Petersen, who provided abundant support, and guidance through her intricate knowledge of peace and conflict resolution. The enthusiastic encouragement and support from Dr. Jarius Grove’s critical thinking on digital activism has helped me wide the vision and the depth of writing on case studies. I also want to give a very special thanks to Dr. Brien Hallet who not only patiently give suggestions to widen the view of the research topic, also kindly spent countless hours reading the draft and advising in the revising, and writing process, Dr. Bruce Barnes whose nuanced knowledge of mediation theory empowered me in field studies; Dr. Kristen Parris’ field researches of the Chinese civil society and Dr. Eric Harwit’s academic curiosity toward China’s Telecommunications Revolution have helped fuel my own. Without the combined effort of these amazing individuals, this project would have never been completed. Their knowledge and shared ideas of the theoretical world will stay with me forever, for that I can never give thanks enough. My sincere hope is that someday I will be able to impact any individual the way each and every person on this theoretical journey has impacted me. Finally, completion of this thesis and participation in this degree program would not have been possible without all the support from our Political Science Department, the East Asian Language Department, the research fellowship from the Pacific Forum, CSIS, and Asia Pacific Leadership Program, East West Center. IV China’s Emerging Inter-network Society - The Rise of Public Advocacy in the Digital ‘Public Sphere’ Abstract Looking beyond western philosophical foundations and classical concepts of civil society, a major hypothesis of this dissertation is the rise of rights-based advocacy for “Dao” (倡道) empowered by the digital public sphere, which multiplies the opportunities for dialogues and negotiations with the state, and may even constitute an incipient counter-power in engagement of the interest-based advocacy with Party’s guidance (倡导). It also put forward that China has an emerging “Inter-network society” which is a “network society”1 with increasing interaction and inter-subjectivity, as an arena for deliberative communication and action that a new form of civil society emerging through the development of interactive, horizontal networks of communication over the Internet and other digital models. It links the analyses of the outstanding issues of public interest advocacy under the impact of the age of information with empirical approaches to understand the role of civil society in building an active public sphere (including the virtual public sphere on line) during China’s post-reform era. Based on a selected body of comparative literature, case studies and other examples undertaken in China, it argues that the Internet has become the new ‘social space /public sphere’ where power and counter-power are competing. Under these conditions, the insurgent political and social movements are able to intervene more decisively in the new communication space. Meanwhile, the corporate media and mainstream politics also have invested in this new communication space. As a result of these processes, mass media and horizontal communication networks are converging. The net outcome of this evolution is a historical shift of the public sphere from the institutional realm to the new communication space. The conclusions are supported by observations about the ever-shifting connections between the civil society’s increasing participation in policy-making process and social change in today’s China. It employs extensive reading of news reports and case study analyses to investigate the Inter-network society’s participation in public interest advocacy. The arguments are based on detailed case studies on issues of philanthropy, environmental protection, copy rights and collective land usage. The dissertation then discusses the political implications and future scenarios raised by these issues under the influence of an emerging Inter-network society. 1 Castells, Manuel. (2000b). The rise of the network society (2nd ed.). U.S. Blackwell Publishing. V Contents Acknowledgments......................................................................................................................iv Abstract .......................................................................................................................................v List of Figures .........................................................................................................................viii List of Abbreviations .................................................................................................................ix Chapter 1: Introduction............................................................................................................1 Background and Purpose of the research............................................................................1 Literature Review...............................................................................................................6 Methodology.....................................................................................................................15 Summary of Thesis: chapter outline..................................................................................18 Chapter 2: The Inter-network Society....................................................................................22 Introduction.......................................................................................................................22 The Inter-network Society............................................................................................... 25 Civil Society Networks…............................................................................................ 27 The Network Society................................................................................................... 36 The “mass self-communication” and “Intersubjectivity” Characters ..........................38 Chapter 3: The Rise of Public Interest Advocacy in China: ...............................................44 Introduction......................................................................................................................44 Advocacy for “Dao” (倡道) v.s. Advocacy with Guidance (倡导)..................................47 Rights-based Advocacy for “Dao” (倡道) ...................................................................51 Interest-based Advocacy with Guidance (倡导) ..........................................................62 The Models of Public Interest Advocacy and its Legal Application................................76 The Oppositional Model ……………………………………………………………....78 The Collaborative Model ……………………………………………………………...82 Chapter 4: Advocacy Strategies and the Digital “Public Sphere”.....................................87 VI Introduction......................................................................................................................87 Overview of Advocacy Strategies....................................................................................90
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