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This book traces the development of video (especially short video, duan shipin) in China over the past few years, exploring how these videos engaged with China’s rapidly changing society, how they enriched existed theories of society, media and communication, and new theories to be extracted. The book offers a new, critical model for understanding the relationship between video, video theory, video industry and the State. This book sheds light on the overall description and explanation of the current socio-political, economic and cultural environment concerning the development of video (especially short video). It interprets the emergence of the “Social Videolization” through the subjects of media psychology, communication studies and cultural criticism, media industrial studies, sociology and anthropology.

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Jian Meng is a professor and doctoral supervisor in Journalism School of Fudan University. He is the head of provincial and ministerial-level news release assessment team for Information Office of the State Council, director of Fudan University National Center for Cultural Innovation Research, vice-president of Communication Association of China, director of Research Center for Visual Culture of Fudan University. Hui Zhao is a professor at the School of Drama, Film and Television, Communication University of China. She was a visiting researcher in the field of public opinion and intelligence at Seoul National University, South Korea, a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, a senior visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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