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Tag Archives: Sina weibo
New publication: “Connectivity, Engagement and Witnessing on China’s Weibo.”
My new article, “Connectivity, Engagement and Witnessing on China’s Weibo,” has just been published in Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, and Guobin Yang eds. The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China University of Pennsylvania Press (2016). It is the first book-length study of the Chinese Internet after the social media revolution to explore the impact of social media in Chinese … Continue reading
The Chinese Internet in 2014
The beginning of a new year is a good time to look back and reflect upon important events and developments during the past year. Not surprisingly 2014 was an eventful year that kept us doing research on the Chinese Internet on our toes trying to keep up with events, and to understand and analyse their implications. What follows is an … Continue reading
Digital Notes from Shanghai: On mobile phones and changes
I arrived in Shanghai last week and will in some blogs share my experiences and reflections. This is not my first time in Shanghai as I was a student here during the period 1988-1990, i.e. before the advent of the Internet and the mobile phone. At that time many people still didn’t have a landline phone. Whenever I got a … Continue reading
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Tagged China, China Mobile, ICT, Internet, Lei Jun, mobile phones, Shanghai, Shenzhen, SIM card, Sina weibo, WeChat, weibo, Wifi, Xiaomi
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Law in the Digital Age
At a workshop on legal issues in China arranged by the Centre last week, I discussed how ICTs are used by legal institutions, how Chinese citizens get access to legal information on-line, and how legal debates and struggles are conducted in the digital age. In this blog I will address some of these issues. In previous blogs we have touched … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, blogs, courts, cybercrime, digitization, governance, He Weifang, human flesh search, ICT, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, journalists, justice bureau, law dissemination, laws, lawyers, legal institutions, microblogging, NGOs, police, procuratorate, Pu Zhiqiang, re-education through labor, re-incarnation, Si Weijiang, Sina weibo, Sun Zhigang, surveillance, surveillance cameras, Teng Biao, WeChat, weibo, Zhou Yongkang, Zhou Ze
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The latest about microblogging (weibo) in China
China is a very exciting but contradictory place when it comes to the development and impact of ICT on society and the economy. Take for example the case of microblogs/weibo 微博. I recently wrote an article (in Swedish) entitled “Public debates, activism and charity on microblogs/weibo in China” trying to summarise developments, profile of users, patterns of use, and how censorship … Continue reading