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 “Xiaonei”, “kaixin”, which fills the vacancy of international social network sites like “
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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 and communications studies. One of his greatest books is “The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture”, which include “The Rise of…
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 doing, eating, awake or not. Celebrities even become a big drive for twitter’s popularity.[1]At least for people like me,…
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, but I seldom use that, so sorry.
W: So maybe email is the best way to contact you?
C: ….yup!
How…
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 the first speaking language of the world, most entries are of English. But how many people use English Wikipedia? Are the…
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 to discover the blogging life under repressive regimes—-because these countries are more or less have some…