Bibliograph

Blocked on weibo, what gets suppressed on China's version of Twitter (and why), Jason Q. Ng

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Blocked on weibo, what gets suppressed on China's version of Twitter (and why), Jason Q. Ng

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blocked on weibo

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

853359777

Responsibility statement

Jason Q. Ng

Sub title

what gets suppressed on China's version of Twitter (and why)

Summary

What did Chinese authorities do in July 2009 when tensions between the predominantly Muslim population of China's Xinjiang province and authorities escalated into violent riots? They turned off the Internet in Xinjiang. This inspired China scholar Jason Q. Ng to devise a computer script to test all 700,000 terms in Chinese Wikipedia to see which ones are routinely censored on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, which currently has over 300 million users.The result was the groundbreaking and highly praised Blocked on Weibo blog, expanded here into a book. Ranging from fairly ob

Table Of Contents

Introduction; Author's Note; Chapter 1: #government# #CCP# #politics# #nationalism#; Chapter 2: #dissent# #censorship# #justice#; Chapter 3: #sex# #drugs# #immorality#; Chapter 4: #people#; Chapter 5: #scandals# #disasters# #rumors#; Chapter 6: #information# #media#; Chapter 7: #security# #violence# #suppression#; Chapter 8: #misc# #why?#; Chinese Words Used, English Translation, and Weibo Block Status; Acknowledgments

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