Blocked on Weibo - What Gets Suppressed on China''s Version of Twitter (And Why)

Informationen zum Autor Jason Q. Ng is a research consultant for China Digital Times and a 2013 Google Policy Fellow at the Citizen Lab. His work has been featured in Le Monde, the Huffington Post, the Next Web, Asia Pacific Forum, and Shanghaiist. He writes regularly on China for Waging Nonviolence. He lives in New Jersey. Klappentext What did Chinese authorities do in July 2009 when tensions between the predominantly Muslim population of China's Xinjiang province and authorities escalated into violent riots? They turned off the Internet in Xinjiang. This inspired China scholar Jason Q. Ng to devise a computer script to test all 700,000 terms in Chinese Wikipedia to see which ones are routinely censored on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, which currently has over 300 million users. The result was the groundbreaking and highly praised Blocked on Weibo blog, expanded here into a book. Ranging from fairly obvious words, such as "tank" (a reference to the "Tank Man" who stared down the Chinese army in Tiananmen Square) and the names of top government officials (if they can't be found online, they can't be criticized), to deeply obscure terms, such as "The Four Gentlemen" (though it means a set of four traditional flowers, it can also refer to various quartets of dissidents) and "hairy bacon" (a coded insult for Mao's embalmed body), "Blocked on Weibo" collects many of the phrases that could get a Chinese Internet user invited to the local police station "for a cup of tea"--a euphemism for being illegally detained by the authorities. An invaluable guide to sensitive topics in modern-day China, "Blocked on Weibo" exposes the fissures between the idealized society that Chinese authorities dream of having and the actual one that Chinese netizens are creating each day.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jason Q Ng, Jason Q. Ng
• Editore: New press usa
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 27.08.2013
• EAN: 9781595588715
• ISBN: 978-1-59558-871-5
• Pagine: 240
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Informatica, EDP > Comunicazione dati, reti; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; China, Asiatische Geschichte, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Politik und Staat, Human Rights, Soziale Medien / Soziale Netzwerke, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Politics / Current Events, HISTORY / Asia / China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, COMPUTERS / Web / Social Networking, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, Ethical issues & debates, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Ethical issues and debates