Month: January 2017

A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Online Harassment

Posted on by Jason Li

Last October, designer & researcher Caroline Sinders made a three week trip to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney to study their cultures of online harassment. Today, she shares some of her findings on Buzzfeed:

More generally, in Hong Kong, journalists told me that personal data is so widely accessible that most internet users don’t see or…

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China Meme Report

Has the Grass Mud Horse been defanged?

Posted on by An Xiao Mina
The Grass Mud Horse （草泥马） emoji in Sina Weibo appears alongside other harmless puns like the “Spirit Horse” （神马）, a pun for “What”, and jiong （囧）, a character that looks like a sad face.

A few years ago, I observed a curious addition to the emoji set on Sina Weibo: a Grass Mud Horse. It was a little confusing to…

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Ethnography of Tech

VR malls, mobile payments and tuhao-themed parties (#cxinchina 2016 edition)

Posted on by Christina Xu

Editor’s note: Below is a selection of our favorite Instagram posts that  Christina published during her 2016 trip to Beijing, Chengdu & Shanghai to research technology, youth culture and trends.

 

Technology

There are VR kiosks in almost every mid-high end mall I’ve been into in Beijing and Shanghai, as well…

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