{"id":170747,"date":"2014-03-26T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=170747"},"modified":"2014-03-26T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T17:18:42","slug":"word-week-chinternet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/03\/word-week-chinternet\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Week: Chinternet"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/a>Chinternet<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0Contraction of \u201cChina\u201d and \u201cInternet\u201d; the Internet with Chinese characteristics. China\u2019s \u201cGreat Firewall<\/a>\u201d filters certain foreign websites and webpages, while government and commercial censors block and delete content. Domestic platforms soak up traffic that would go to globally popular sites, if they were not blocked or otherwise rendered difficult to use:\u00a0Weibo<\/a>\u00a0replaces\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0Baidu replaces Google<\/a>,\u00a0YouKu<\/a>\u00a0stands in for\u00a0YouTube<\/a>, and so on.<\/p>\n Chinese Internet users (netizens) also joke that what they are accessing is not the Internet, but the\u00a0Great Chinese LAN<\/a>\u00a0(local area network<\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/a>The\u00a0Word of the Week<\/a>\u00a0comes from China Digital Space\u2019s\u00a0Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon<\/a>, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China\u2019s online \u201cresistance discourse,\u201d used to mock and subvert the official language around\u00a0censorship<\/a>\u00a0and political correctness.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chinternet:\u00a0Contraction of \u201cChina\u201d and \u201cInternet\u201d; the Internet with Chinese characteristics. China\u2019s \u201cGreat Firewall\u201d filters certain foreign websites and webpages, while government and commercial censors block and delete content. Domestic platforms soak up traffic that would go to globally popular sites, if they were not blocked or otherwise rendered difficult to use:\u00a0Weibo\u00a0replaces\u00a0Twitter,\u00a0Baidu replaces Google,\u00a0YouKu\u00a0stands in for\u00a0YouTube, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":991,"featured_media":170748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,14748,7,14744,14745,14746,6,5,4202],"tags":[8461,6300,15153],"class_list":["post-170747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-gmh","category-information-revolution","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-sci-tech","category-society","category-translation","tag-chinternet","tag-internet-censorship","tag-word-of-the-week","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n