Carter Liz
Carter Liz - Let 100 Voices Speak How The Internet Is Transforming China And Changing Everything - Paperback
Carter Liz - Let 100 Voices Speak How The Internet Is Transforming China And Changing Everything - Paperback
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Description: From the Occupy movement in the Western world to the Arab Spring and the role of Twitter in the Middle East the internet and social media is changing the global landscape. China is next. Despite being a heavily - censored society China has over 560 million active internet users more than double that of the US a. In this book social media expert and China - watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming together of activists ordinary people and cultural trendsetters on a scale unknown in modern history. News about protests and natural disasters or gossip and satirical jokes are practically uncensorable and spread quickly through Weibo - the Chinese Twitter - and the Chinese internet underground. More than that a grassroots foundational shift of assumptions and expectations is taking place as Chinese men and women cast off the communistera 'stability at all costs mantra and find new forms of selfexpression creativity and communication with the world.
Title: Let 100 Voices Speak How The Internet Is Transforming China And Changing Everything
Author(s): Carter Liz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781780769851
Pages: 224 Pages, 3 Integrated Bw
Publication Date: 9/16/2015
Category: Internet: General Works
Description: From the Occupy movement in the Western world to the Arab Spring and the role of Twitter in the Middle East the internet and social media is changing the global landscape. China is next. Despite being a heavily - censored society China has over 560 million active internet users more than double that of the US a. In this book social media expert and China - watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming together of activists ordinary people and cultural trendsetters on a scale unknown in modern history. News about protests and natural disasters or gossip and satirical jokes are practically uncensorable and spread quickly through Weibo - the Chinese Twitter - and the Chinese internet underground. More than that a grassroots foundational shift of assumptions and expectations is taking place as Chinese men and women cast off the communistera 'stability at all costs mantra and find new forms of selfexpression creativity and communication with the world.
Title: Let 100 Voices Speak How The Internet Is Transforming China And Changing Everything
Author(s): Carter Liz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781780769851
Pages: 224 Pages, 3 Integrated Bw
Publication Date: 9/16/2015
Category: Internet: General Works
