Blogging Everyday Life in Chinese Internet Culture

Bibliographic Data

ID12349098
AuthorsHaiqing Yu (0000-0001-8368-4214, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume31
Issue4
Pages423-433
Publication date2007-11-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1035-7823 • E-ISSN: 1467-8403
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10357820701710724
OpenAlexW2052801009
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited10

Since the mid-1990s China has undergone an explosive growth in Internet usage and coverage. China became the second largest Internet nation (next to the United States) in 2002, with 59.1 million Internet users. By June 2006, the number hit 123 million (although this still comprises only 9.4 per cent of China's total population of 1.3 billion).] The Internet has become an integral part of the daily lives of urban Chinese. For most Chinese Internet users, the Internet provides aggregated sources of a rich variety of content: a platform for online commerce, a huge virtual billboard for advertisements, games and social networking (including cyberlove, or wang lion). \nThis entertainment-and-consumption pattern of Internet use at the micro, individual level is often put side by side with a control model at the macro, institutional level, which views information and communication technologies (lCT) as a means of control (see, for example, Qiu, 2007). People in the West are frequently told about the suppression of freedom of speech by the Chinese government, constraints on politically sensitive websites, arrests of cyber activists, and global Internet search companies (such as Google, Yahoo and MSN) giving in to the Chinese government by imposing stricter censorship to control the flow of Internet information

Advertising · Business · Censorship · China · Entertainment · Government (linguistics · Internet privacy · Political science · Population · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Demography · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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