Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, Governing Digital China

China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence and is often compared to an Orwellian "Big Brother."Journalists, policy makers, and scholars routinely portray Chinese digital governance as a seamless surveillance machine in which the party-state commands, platforms comply, and citizens submit.In Governing Digital China, a volume by Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo in the Communication, Society and Politics series, which examines the political and social impacts of communication processes and systems in national, comparative, and global contexts, Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo offer what is arguably the most empirically ambitious challenge to this view to date.Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, the authors argue that