China China and the Internet: Great Firewall or Panopticon? September 5, 2018 0 Written by Jason Abbott. The Chinese government operates one of the most extensive systems of Internet censorship anywhere in the world. Colloquially referred to outside…
Taiwan Taiwan 2016 Twitterati January 4, 2016 0 Compiled by Michal Thim and Jonathan Sullivan. The past couple of years I have made a list of China scholars active on Twitter--the China Scholars…
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…
Culture and Society China’s global media: Mixed signals February 18, 2014 0 Written by Vivien Marsh. If my former BBC boss Richard Sambrook was right to question the survival of 24-hour rolling television news in the social…
International Relations What we can learn from the Russian internet… or why politicians use Twitter. May 23, 2013 0 Written by Bettina Renz. State control over most of the national media in Russia has meant that Russian newspapers and TV today are a lot…