Category Archives: Internet culture

360quan.com to shut down

360quan.com, a social networking website funded by the Koolanoo Group, which focused on the post-90s generation, is said to be closing.

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The day Ai Weiwei learned about Twitter

Artist and reformed journalist Chris Gill has posted a recording of an interview with Ai Weiwei to his website Shanghai Eye.

During the interview, Gill introduces Ai to Twitter, apparently for the first time. Ai is now China’s most famous and probably most active Twitter user.

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Chinese and American netizens clash in cyberspace

Kaiser Kuo speaking at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln on Sino-American relations and how the Internet affects them.

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Ah Bei, CEO of douban.com, on the website as a “creative stage”

Compared to other websites on the Chinese blogosphere, douban.com, not quite a social networking site but still based on users forming events, discussion groups, fan pages of brands, groups, people et al, has dominated the cultural scene online in China.

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Dystopia and censorship

China business and Internet series in The Daily Telegraph.

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Dan Brody on post-90s Chinese Internet culture

Danwei interviews the CEO of social networking site targeted at the so-called “brain-damaged” post-90s generation.

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Sharism: A Mind Revolution

Isaac Mao writes about sharing on the World Wide Web.

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Sexual harassment Shenzhen official in trouble on the Internet, and with the cops

A fat government official harasses an 11-year-old girl in a restaurant in Shezhen, and the Chinese Internet hunts him down.

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Translating Chinese Internet chaos: ChinaSMACK

Q&A with the people behind ChinaSMACK.com who translate Chinese Internet forum posts and comments.

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