Government From the “Great Firewall” to the “Great Cannon”: The misleading metaphors of Internet filtering in China April 29, 2015 0 Written by Séverine Arsène. In a recent report on a China-related attack against Github and Greatfire, a group of researchers coined the term “Great Cannon”…
Internet Ethnicities in Sinophone Cyberspace April 29, 2015 5 Written by Julie Yu-Wen Chen A recent special issue of the journal Asian Ethnicity (which I guest edited with Jonathan Sullivan) examines ethnic identification as it is manifest…
China Chat and Mouse: The Online Game of Indirect Deliberation April 28, 2015 0 Written by Nele Noesselt. Following the so-called Twitter and Facebook ‘revolutions’ of the Arab Spring, digital communication technologies and social media have, once again, been hyped…
China Beyond censorship—The new ecology of the Chinese internet April 27, 2015 0 Written by Jun Fu. The International Communication Association recently gave its Outstanding Article Award of 2015 to an article addressing the question “Does the Great Firewall…
Culture and Society Online counter-hegemonic resistance in China’s Hong Kong November 25, 2013 3 Written by Daniel Garrett. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is well known as a “City of Protests” but fewer are aware that Hongkongers’…
Internet Online Encyclopedias, Distributed Oversight and Identifying Censorship November 19, 2013 1 Written by Jason Q. Ng. In 2008, Baidu’s chief scientist William Chang said, “There’s, in fact, no reason for China to use Wikipedia . . .…
Internet A New Internet World, A Neo-Authoritarian Model of Internet Governance November 18, 2013 1 Written by Min Jiang. Following the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in Beijing from November…
Culture and Society Searching Guangzhou: Regionalising Weibo November 15, 2013 2 Written by Wilfred Yang Wang. "Known to many in the West as ‘Canton’, Guangzhou is the first city most travellers to mainland China visit. Wrapped…
Internet The Great Fearwall of China November 3, 2013 3 Written by Jonathan Benney. The term “Great Firewall”, intended to convey that China’s Internet is surrounded in its entirety by a border which restricts outside…
