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How Chinese Weibo has Changed China

Weibo is the chinese name for “Micro blog”, which was born two years ago, but now has already reached millions of users. Because of the strict censorship in China, the birth of weibo is the same as the birth of...
By Siying Yang on 11/21/11 1

Wikipedia = Local-Narrative

Jean-François Lyotard, a French philosopher and postmodern theorist, talks about “meta-narratives” and “local-narratives”. According to him, a meta-narrative is an abstract idea that is thought to be a comprehensive explanation of historical experience or knowledge. Briefly, in concept of...
By Siying Yang on 10/22/09 1

Baidu Tieba: A Reflection of Manuel Castell’s Theories

Manuel Castells is a sociologist, he was born in Spain and now is a professor in t the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and also a have taught in University of California, Berkeley. He especially researches into information society...
By Siying Yang on 10/13/09 0
“Who Do You Think You Are?” —-Everyone is Narcissist

“Who Do You Think You Are?” —-Everyone is Narcissist

I admit that I am a fanatic. When I began to use twitter this week, I do find a new world: wow! I can communicate with celebrities! A lot of them use twitter to tell us what they are...
By Siying Yang on 10/04/09 0
Chinese Cyber World: A World in Itself

Chinese Cyber World: A World in Itself

Let’s start with an interesting conversation between a Chinese (C) and a westerner (W): W: Oh, it is so nice to meet you! Do you have facebook? C: no. I am sorry. W: Do you have MSN? C: yea,...
By Siying Yang on 09/26/09 2

The Language Barrier in Wikipedia

No one can deny the fact that the widely use of Wikipedia all over the world nowadays. In order to make all people use Wikipedia freely, now it already has different versions of a large number of languages. As...
By Siying Yang on 09/20/09 0
Review of “The Blogging Revolution” by Antony Loewenstein

Review of “The Blogging Revolution” by Antony Loewenstein

This book, named “The Blogging Revolution” is written by Antony Loewenstein, an Jewish-Australian free-lance journalist, author and blogger. During the year of 2007, he travelled to Cuba, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and China for interviewing bloggers in order...
By Siying Yang on 09/13/09 1