Chair and key presenter: Qian Gang, Co-Director, China Media Project, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong Moderator/facilitator: David Bandurski, Research Associate, China Media Project, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong. Panel of Chinese journalists and bloggers: * Hu Yong, Associate Professor, Peking University * Li Yong-gang, Assistant [...]

What Chinese bloggers blog – examining the top 100 weblogs in China This study tries to answer the question–what kinds of blogs are being read most and its content and implication—by means of analysis of Chinese-language content from China. The top 100 weblogs would give us an overview of China blogosphere. Additionally, there are substantial [...]

Crossing the River by Groping for Stones: From Free Expression to Shared Meanings to Collective Political Action in China’s Blogosphere Peter Marolt asks the question “how can you believe what you see/read online?” One way to do this is to zoom in on the “Internet of thoughts and ideas” and look at those bloggers that [...]

Xiao Qiang, Adjunct Professor, University of California at Berkeley. “The Rise of Online Public Opinion and Its Political Impact” Xiao Qiang is looking at the South Tiger Photos incident and Yilishen incident. Looking at the Chinese internet from the perspective of Habermas’ “public sphere”. But, China’s internet space is heavily censored, controlled. With respect to [...]

SESSION 9: Blogging and online discourse (Part 1) Moderator: Rebecca MacKinnon, Assistant Professor, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong. Jiang Min, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, UNC-Charlotte. “Authoritarian Deliberation: Public Deliberation in China” Xiao Qiang, Adjunct Professor, University of California at Berkeley. “The Rise of Online Public Opinion and Its [...]

“How Will The Social Brain Evolve in China? Isaac starts off with some background, his alternate angle to studying the Chinese internet over the past 4-5 years that might help explain his presentation. Look at this conference, there is good turnout. However, what we cannot see is how the people here are connected. The invisible [...]

Roland Soong covers all the above, as well as the snowstorm. As far as his coverage of these issues on ESWN, he displays a graph showing Edison Chen and Sexy Photo Gate easily won the day with nearly 10,000,000 hits in one day. January 28th, he wrote about how the Edison Chen photos were overwhelming [...]

Myth and Reality: Too Little or Too Much Freedom for Mainland Netizens The cyberspace has been likened by many to be the “wild wild West,” unruly to be tamed. Yet the great firewall of the Chinese Government has pinned down and filtered many freewheeling minds and spirits. When we are confronted with the Orwellian nightmare [...]

Johan Lagerkvist, Research Fellow, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs- Norms and the Legitimacy of Law in China: the Case of ‘Black Internet Cafes’ The central directives from Beijing regulating Internet cafes that have come in the wake of the Internet cafe fire of 2002 are, like many other central government laws in China, inconsistently [...]

SESSION 7: Law, Regulation and Governance Moderator: Peter Yu, Professor & Director, Intellectual Property Law Center, Drake University Law School Discussant: Doreen Weisenhaus, Director of the Media Law Project & Assistant Professor, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong Olivier Arifon, Assistant Professor, Robert Schuman University / CERIME laboratory, Strasbourg France. “Regulation [...]