Yang, Guobin2023-05-222023-05-222009-07-012013-06-19https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/2007Online activism is a new form of popular contention in China. In some cases, the Internet serves to mobilize street protest. More often, protest takes place online. The most common forms include online petitions, the hosting of campaign websites, and large-scale verbal protests. The most radical is perhaps the hacking of websites. These forms of contention may be found in blogs, Internet bulletin boards, online communities, and podcast and YouTube-type web sites.Copyright © 2009 National Endowment for Democracy & The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reprinted with permission by The Johns Hopkins University Press.CommunicationArticle