Chinaʼs socio-political cyber-scape Slides for guest lecture in Gaurav Mishraʼs Georgetown course MSFS 556: Social Media in Business, Development, and Government https://digitalcommons.georgetown.edu/blogs/msfs-556-spring2009/ Rebecca MacKinnon Open Society Fellow Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Ctr., University of Hong Kong e-mail: [email protected]blog: http://rconversation.blogs.com
Guest lecture at Gaurav Mishra's Georgetown class. https://digitalcommons.georgetown.edu/blogs/msfs-556-spring2009/syllabus/
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Chinaʼs socio-political cyber-scape
Slides for guest lecture in Gaurav Mishraʼs Georgetown course MSFS 556: Social Media in Business, Development, and Government
“Eluding the cat:” bloggers invited to prison investigation
Cyber-nationalism
V.P. Xi Jinping in Mexico
Some foreigners who have eaten their fill have nothing better to do than point their
fingers at our affairs.
V.P. Xi Jinping in Mexico
Some foreigners who have eaten their fill have nothing better to do than point their
fingers at our affairs.
“It is only by way of this frankness that the confidence of a responsible big power can be better displayed; it is only by way of this frankness that the bright attitude of an increasingly powerful China can best be shown; and also it is only with this frankness
our fellow countrymen will feel excited.”
V.P. Xi Jinping in Mexico
Some foreigners who have eaten their fill have nothing better to do than point their
fingers at our affairs.
“It is only by way of this frankness that the confidence of a responsible big power can be better displayed; it is only by way of this frankness that the bright attitude of an increasingly powerful China can best be shown; and also it is only with this frankness
our fellow countrymen will feel excited.”
“Vice President Xi Jinping is so cool! He trashed the unfriendly
foreigners.”
Cyber-ocracy?
2008 Chinese Blogger Conference, Guangzhou.Photos courtesy “HKdom” http://www.flickr.com/photos/hkdom/3046205362/
and http://www.flickr.com/photos/hkdom/3046219444/in/photostream/
Photo by Joi Ito (Creative Commons BY) at: http://freesouls.cc/essays/07-isaac-mao-sharism.html
If we want free speech, first we need free thinking.
Philosophy of “sharism” - using technology and social networks that enable people to engage and share with one another in ways that facilitate collective learning, critical thinking, public discourse, social justice and emergent democracy.
Photos by Josh Chin at 2007 CNbloggercon, Beijing. On Flickr under “hunxue-er” at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21953266@N00/1849687423/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/21953266@N00/1849689005/ (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA)