Let 100 Voices Speak: How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything
- ISBN-10
- 0857725726
- ISBN-13
- 9780857725721
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-07-16
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Author
- Liz Carter
Description
From the Occupy movement in the Western world to the Arab Spring and the role of Twitter in the Middle East, the internet and social media is changing the global landscape. China is next. Despite being a heavily-censored society, China has over 560 million active internet users, more than double that of the USA. In this book, social media expert and China-watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming together of activists, ordinary people and cultural trendsetters on a scale unknown in modern history. News about protests and natural disasters, or gossip and satirical jokes, are practically uncensorable and spread quickly through Weibo - the Chinese Twitter - and the Chinese internet underground. More than that, a grassroots, foundational shift of assumptions and expectations is taking place, as Chinese men and women cast off the communistera 'stability at all costs' mantra and find new forms of selfexpression, creativity and communication with the world.
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