Thursday, October 16, 2008
Behind the Golden Shield: Internet in China
China Digital Times: Video: Sino-Korean Online Gaming Tensions, (October 8, 2008.)
Description: "This video of a Korean gamer’s rant against Chinese gamers and Chinese civilization in general has been making the rounds in Chinese cyberspace."
Journeyman Pictures video about "Internet Addiction--China" (January, 2008)
Description: "Pressure on Chinese children to succeed is turning them into reclusive computer junkies. The Internet has become the only place they can escape. "
Journeyman Pictures video about "The Great Fire Wall of China" (May, 2008)
Description: "China has the most sophisticated censorship and Internet surveillance in the world. But despite this autocratic control some guerrilla bloggers are still managing to get their message through. "
"Virtual Carnivores," China's Online Vigilantes, The Economist, (October 2, 2008)
Description: "Untold legions police the Internet in China to block information deemed politically threatening. But the world’s biggest online population still has a wild streak. Worries are growing about Internet vigilantes who mount “renrou sousuo”, or “human-flesh searches”, to ferret out perceived wrongdoers.""
Labels: China, Internet, surveillance
