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 [...]