Recognizing that the Internet is shifting how we utilize and think about space, this project is focused on understanding and conceptualizing emerging forms of spatialities around phenomena and events that concurrently span virtual and material worlds. It examines the aspirations and actions of people living in specific places across urban China (and Taiwan) and how they utilise the Internet to make the(ir) world(s) a better place, both independent of and in interaction with state and corporate actors. Expected outcomes include two co-edited books on Online China and a monograph, tentatively titled "Cyber China: making space for change."

PI: Peter Marolt