Chinese teen digital entertainment : rethinking censorship and commercialisation in short video and online fiction

Xiang Ren

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Abstract

While digital entertainment like short video and online fiction provides Chinese teenagers with opportunities to freely create and access digital content, as well as interacting with social networks to express their identities, feelings, voices, and concerns, teenagers are also exposed to harmful and unsuitable content and various threats. Using two case studies, this chapter examines problems in teenagers' online cultural engagement and civic participation, and the practices of regulating digital entertainment for children's online safety, privacy, and rights in China. It further discusses the reasons why China's internet censorship fails to effectively protect children from risks in digital entertainment.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children
EditorsLelia Green, Donell Holloway, Kylie Stevenson, Tama Leaver, Leslie Haddon
Place of PublicationU.S.
PublisherRoutledge
Pages539-548
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781351004107
ISBN (Print)9781138544345
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Keywords

  • mass media and children
  • Internet and children
  • digital media
  • censorship
  • Internet videos
  • literature and the Internet
  • China

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