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Abstract

In the People Republic of China (PRC), ideological apparatuses, and censorship exert strong influence over Internet’ users experiences. Allegedly, the aim of the government is to manufacture (Foucauldian) “docile bodies.” This would explain why, in the last decades, en entire corpus of empirical research has been built around organizational citizenship behavior. Although the PRC has the right to determine its own domestic policies on the principle of (cybers-) sovereignty, a variety of NGOs, and other non-state actors, have criticized its growing restrictions on grassroot activisms, and bottom-up governance (Wright, 2006). Per contra, proponents of the status quo points to the benefits of security, and of stability. An argument that seems to be validated by the country’ extraordinary economic rise (Li, 1998).