“D8 Goes to Battle, Nothing Will Grow”: Cyber-nationalism as Online Emotional Games

WANG Zhe

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2016, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (11) : 75-90.

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2016, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (11) : 75-90.

“D8 Goes to Battle, Nothing Will Grow”: Cyber-nationalism as Online Emotional Games

  • Wang Zhe is an assistant professor at the Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, and a Ph.D. candidate at the Taiwan Chengchi University College of Communication. Email: thethe. wang@gmail.com.
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This research mines and analyses the comments left by D8 on Tsai Ing-wen's Facebook during its expedition over the Great Firewall. Those comments are divided as pattern comments and non-pattern comments, and the former one presents a distinguished cyber-nationalism when compared with before, which can be seen as emotional and game-like cyber-nationalism. This is the result of the collaboration of cybernationalism and cyber subcultures. On one hand, those participants prefer entertaining and positive emotions; on the other hand, the strategies employed by those participants rely on the digital logic of social networking, which needs to take both community-individual and sensation-reason into consideration. Above all, the cybernationalism discussed in this study is embedded in the practices of "networked authoritarianism" and entertainment business in China.

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cyber-nationalism / “D8 goes to battle” / emotional games / SNS

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WANG Zhe. “D8 Goes to Battle, Nothing Will Grow”: Cyber-nationalism as Online Emotional Games[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2016, 38(11): 75-90
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