Tag: Online culture

Watch Your Language! (In China, They Really Do)

The International Herald Tribune’s Rendezvous blog writes about keyword filtering and netizen lingo in Chinese cyberspace, with examples from CDT’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon and the recent study from Carnegie Mellon University: More than 16 percent of all messages in China get deleted, according to a study by the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh

March 13, 2012 10:20 AM

In China’s Cyberspace, Dissent Speaks Code

At The Wall Street Journal, CDT’s editor in chief Xiao Qiang and Perry Link describe the use of online slang, such

January 4, 2013 9:17 PM

Pleasure Hacking on the Chinese Net

At Makeshift, sociologist Tricia Wang examines an often overlooked target of China’s web censorship, and its arguab

December 12, 2012 4:05 PM

Why Won’t “Netizen” Just Die?

At The Atlantic, Brian Fung contemplates the longevity of the widely derided 80s buzzword “netizens” as a lab

October 12, 2012 1:21 PM

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