Broadband Internet and Crisis Economy in China

Abstract

This paper, in contrast, seeks to contextualize the conditions, motivations, processes, and dilemmas of building a broadband-based information economy, underscoring the collusion between the state and capital and their limitations. How does the state concerned with domestic interests articulate with a global political economy of information in terms of broadband development? How does the broadband Internet fit within and modify power dynamics in the telecom market? And what measures have been taken to make broadband commercially viable and socially responsible, with what limitations?