Tag Archives: Japan

:-) or (^_^) – Western versus Japanese emoticons

Annet Bos | 13 September 2011, 4:44 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

It’s been a week now since the New Media Master 2010-2011 started. The first thing that stroke me while looking around at my fellow students in the lecture room on Monday morning was the enormous diversity of backgrounds, nationalities and cultures in this Master’s program. There are students from Poland, Romania, The UK, The USA and even a student from…

Time to get social online, but why?

Yu-Fen Chen | 28 September 2009, 1:53 am | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Why do we socialize online? Because “human beings are social animals,” Aristotle would say so.

Patterns in China’s Economic Development

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 20 June 2008, 6:41 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

\'four tigers\'

For my Masters thesis I am doing research on the global emergence of Chinese Internet companies. The theoretical part of my thesis consists of several studies on successfull development of other Asian countries in the past. The current emergence of the Chinese economy has many similarities with the past emergence of the Japan and the ‘four Asian Tigers’ Taiwan,…