Monday, December 6th, 2010 09:03 am GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tips and Tricks by Reda Cherif
Logically speaking, if Wikileaks is a criminal organization, then the New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and The Guardian are too (they have been working with criminals) and should be blamed for complicity.
Tags: advocacy, blogs, china, communication, internet, journalism, media, New York Times, open source, politics, social media, transparency, wikileaks
Monday, November 22nd, 2010 10:41 am GMT -5 in News Briefs by Gabrielle Tang
The arrest of a woman in China for reposting a shorter-than-140-character message is just another example of China’s repression of online expression.
Tags: activism, blogs, censorship, china, facebook, internet, media, regulation, social networks, twitter
Sunday, October 17th, 2010 11:44 pm GMT -5 in Code, Content, Tubes by Erika Whillas
The internet firewall of China is working day and night to keep sensitive words such as “democracy”, “human rights”, “genocide”, “oppression”, “overthrow” and “dictatorship” out of public circulation – oh, and let’s not forget “evil”.
Tags: censorship, china
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 04:53 pm GMT -5 in Content by Michael Cervieri
How a 12-character message — “Jia Junpeng, your mother wants you to go home to eat” — became a Chinese Internet sensation, attracting 300,000 comments in a day.
Tags: china, internet, meme
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 10:01 am GMT -5 in Uncategorized by Michael Cervieri
Digital video cameras allow a Chinese filmmaker to make an illegal documentary. And the critics say it’s great.
Tags: china, digital, film, zhao
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 07:38 am GMT -5 in News Briefs by Michael Cervieri
Schools in Beijing are quietly removing the Green Dam filter, which was required for all school computers in July, due to complaints over problems with the software.
Tags: big brother, censorship, china, filtering software, green dam