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Virtual-World Unrest and the Gamer Rights Protection Movement in China This essay documents and analyzes the activism of online gamers in the PRC. In contrast to gamers elsewhere, Chinese gamers have since 2003 been carrying out numerous forms of real-world and online protests, litigations, petitions, and insurgencies in large scale and with high frequency. This [...]
Chung Peichi, Assistant Professor, Communications and New Media Programme, National University of Singapore. “The Online Game Industry in China: A Preliminary Observation on the Political Economic Structure.” China’s online gaming sector also grows with the development of broadband penetration. The market structure is dynamic because local players are compatible in competing with transnational media players. [...]
Coal and the Internet in China Digital governance and politics of markets The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of the Internet in institutional change by means of an explorative case study of Chinese coal sector governance. Coal is a resource of unquestioned importance for the Chinese political economy and was as [...]
SESSION 5: ROUNDTABLE – Corporate action and responsibility Moderator: Rebecca MacKinnon, Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong * Issac Mao, Co-founder, CNBlog.org * Charles Mok, Chairman, Internet Society of Hong Kong. * Ching Chiao, VP Community Relations, DotAsia. * Joshua Rosenzweig, Manager of Research and Programs, Duihua Foundation * [...]
Jens Damm, Assistant Professor, Freie Universität Berlin. “The Chinese Diasporic Cyberspace: Overseas Chinese Essentialism vs. Hybrid Transnationalism”Trained as a traditional Sinologist, focuses now on discourses on the internet. Mentions specifically, two trends: 1) Re-emergence of strong links between new migrants in the diaspora and China in the form of a strong China-centered nationalistic diaposra + [...]
Lokman Tsui begins by describing the Great Firewall as a “cute” term. He intends to examine the effects this concept has on policy in the U.S.. Zogby did a poll asking Americans if they believe China will inevitably change with the Internet in a phone survey of about 1200 people. How many people said yes? [...]
What have we seen and what should we look for? ——Deborah Fallows “I am the Yin to Roland‘s Yang in this presentation. My survey was done by me. Roland’s research is based on 140 million users, mine was based on me.” Fallows survey findings are discussed here. Speaking ofher experience during the quake. Getting online [...]
Professor Ying Chan starts us off with a reminder of just how action packed 2008 has been, and it’s only halfway through. Originally the program was for Deborah Fallows to talk about recent Pew findings, and Soong was going to give a response-analysis, but the program has changed. Soong will be presenting “A Psychographic Segmentation [...]
Discussant: Jack Qiu, Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong Qiu sees this very much as a “Chinese” Internet Research Conference, not a “China” one, as Liao’s paper distinguishes the two. He sees the group of papers as using three disciplinary approaches to examine the cultural, linguistic and psychological development of the Internet. 1st [...]