China The significance of sharing: Video in China June 26, 2015 0 Written by Gianluigi Negro. In a famous Ted talk Chris Anderson stated that web video would drive a worldwide phenomenon he called Crowd Accelerated Innovation –…
Chinese media The Symbolic Power of Chinese “Internet Buzzwords” June 10, 2015 0 Written by Elaine Yuan. Like other social spaces in contemporary China, the Chinese Internet, with more than 600 million users, is always energetic and eventful.…
China The Chinese Government Hops on the WeChat Bandwagon May 6, 2015 0 Written by Zixue Tai and Xiaolong Liu. Like everywhere else, social media is an increasingly pervasive presence in Chinese society. Leading the market are the three…
Chinese media Government transparency reporting and access to information in Hong Kong May 1, 2015 0 Written by Jennifer Zhang. The Hong Kong government has been disclosing the aggregate number of online user data and content removal requests it has sent to…
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…
Technology Roar of China’s ‘Great Cannon’ heard across the internet April 23, 2015 0 Written by Tim Stevens. China has once again surprised researchers by unleashing what has been dubbed its “Great Cannon” – a cyber weapon that has…
Taiwan Taiwan’s Digital Democracy October 13, 2014 0 Written by Ben Goren. The introduction of internet capable portable devices such as laptops and early smart phones in Taiwan in the early 2000s; the…
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…
