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  • Pieter-Paul Walraven
  • Url: http://pietchinathesis.wordpress.com/
  • Posts: 20
  • About the user: Besides enjoying my MA New Media and doing research on Web 2.0 developments in China at the UvA I am working 2 days a week as a project assistant at KREM (www.KREM.nl). KREM is a web 2.0 oriented company which specializes in so called corporate social networks. Movies: Koyaanisqatsi, O Brother where art thou?, Amores Perros. When not studying: Golf!, running, traveling, China, Web 2.0. Books: Life of Pi, War and Peace, The World is Flat. Furthermore I am currently doing research on Web 2.0 in China and Chinese Web companies expanding overseas. For this MA thesis research I will travel to China on the 14th of April to interview the most prominent Chinese Web companies that have the ambition to expand internationally.

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Chinese low-wage workers disloyal for a reason

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 02 March 2008, 5:46 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

Fast Boat to ChinaI am currently reading a lot for my research and an interesting book I finished a few days ago is Fast Boat to China from Andrew Ross. In Fast Boat to China Andrew approaches the global outsourcing trend in a different way than most other writers on this subject…

Google Strikes Back in China’s Holiday Migration Chaos

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 01 February 2008, 4:21 pm | 4 comments | tags: ,

The last few weeks it has been in the news numerous times; in Guangzhou, South China, snow and ice storms have stranded tens of millions of people, most of them migrant workers traveling to their families to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Since the storms began on January 10 officials have tried to keep more travelers from coming to the…

Baigoogledu ?!

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 19 December 2007, 2:48 pm | tags: ,

Today I came across the extremely original search site Baigoogledu. They claim to combine the search results of both Google and Baidu. Sounds nice but does it work? Yes, after punching in a search term it shows the results in a split screen. Unfortunately it is not available in English yet. I think this site can be helpfull…

Entering a virtual world inside Facebook

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 15 November 2007, 5:16 pm | 13 comments | tags: , , ,

Deep integration

A couple of weeks ago I bumped into an interesting short post on the Seeriously blog. It was a post about a new Facebook application by Activeworlds (AW) and yesterday I decided to give it a closer look by stepping into this virtual world in Facebook.

Virtual Worlds in Modern China

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 24 October 2007, 6:10 pm | 13 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Since the launch of Second Life (SL) by Linden Lab in 2003 it has attracted the attention of many Chinese users. Despite the popularity of SL in China and partly because SL has never been officially launched in China, their have been several efforts by Chinese companies to launch a similar (or another Web 2.0…

The art of abusing the possibilities of collaboration

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 15 October 2007, 1:43 am | 1 comment | tags:

A few days ago I read a remarkable story in the paper about the readers of an infamous and rebelious website/blog called Geenstijl that was able to mess with the election of the best Dutch slogan ever that was initiated by het Genootschap Voor Reclame (GVR). Because

Analysing a New Media phenomenon through the eyes of Nietzsche

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 07 October 2007, 4:43 pm | 1 comment

In this post I will try to show that Nietzsche’s thoughts and aphorisms are still relevant in a modern Web 2.0 world. I have chosen a quote which I think is surprisingly true in the age of internet and maybe became even more true when online social networks started to take flight.

“Der Irrsinn ist bei Einzelnen etwas Seltenes, – aber…

Mixing Realities

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 24 September 2007, 4:46 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

Today my RSS feed list provided me with an interesting link that directed me to the coverage of the latest Diesel fasion show. It is not that I am particularly interested in Diesel clothing, on the contrary, but I am interested in the new holographic techniques they have used during their fashion show in combination…

Watching Frank; an analysis of the blog Frankwatching.com

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 23 September 2007, 11:37 pm | 1 comment | tags: ,

In my MA New Media course New Media in practise, blogs are a prominent subject. Besides blogs in general and everything that has to do with the phenomenon blogging we talk a lot about our class blog. In the first two weeks all MA New Media student are encouraged to think about and discuss…

Review: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 16 September 2007, 10:23 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

In this book review the theory and ideas that come forward in the book The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, will be discussed.

Tipping point: one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once. The Tipping point is a thoroughly worked out book about the factors that play an essential role in the emergence of so…