Contents
Preface, Bingchun Meng, Guobin Yang, and Elaine J. Yuan
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Governing with Digital Tools
Infrastructures for the Public: The Institutional Contexts of the Applications of Digital Technology in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Elaine J. Yuan
Pandemic Infrastructure, Mediated Mobility, and Urban Governance in China, Yang Zhan
DingTalk and Chinese Digital Workplace Surveillance in Pandemic Times, Yizhou Xu
Access as Method: Hopes, Friction, and Mediated Communication in a Remote Disability Reading Group, Zihao Lin
Part 2. Making Sense of the Pandemic
Chinese Students and Narratives of Freedom before and during COVID-19, Yingyi Ma and Ning Zhan
Cosmopolitan Imperative or Nationalist Sentiment? Mediated Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic among Chinese Overseas Students, Bingchun Meng, Zifeng Chen, and Veronica Jingyi Wang
Contesting for Consensus: Social Sentiment toward Fellow Citizens’ COVID-Related Behavior in China, Yan Wang and Yuxi Zhang
Part 3. Contesting over Narratives
Narrating the Nation during the Global Pandemic: The “K-Quarantine” and Biopolitical Nationalism in the Era of COVID-19, Ji-Hyun Ahn
What Motivated the Sharing of Disinformation about China and COVID-19? A Study of Social Media Users in Kenya and South Africa, Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales
China’s Twitter Diplomacy: Crafting Narratives of COVID-19, Wendy Leutert and Nicholas Atkinson
Contributors
Index