"Archaeologies of the Future” in the Era of New Media
This book is a collection of eight chapters that examine new media and contemporary Chinese politics based on an analysis of twelve major microblog entries from 2011 to 2012, most of which are still relevant to the present day and the new age of WeChat.
It explores how the new media both informs and deforms the ideology. It also discusses how today’s mass migration and the “de-regionalization” of floating populations around the globe, and the accompanying urbanization, the rapid disappearance of rural communities, and the reconstruction of urban-rural relations, as well as the rise in refugee flows and terrorism are all leading to new, large-scale social unrest worldwide.
Xinyu Lü is Zijiang Chair Professor and dean of the School of Communication at East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China. A specialist in critical communication studies and comparative sociology in Chinese visual culture, mass media and social development, she has written a number of books, including Documenting China: The New Documentary Movement, Writing and What It Obscures, Academic・Media and Publicity and Dislocation：Narrative of China and Visual Politics in the Post-Cold War Era. She also contributed to the book The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record.
