A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Online Harassment
Posted on by Jason Li
Tag: weibo
Has the Grass Mud Horse been defanged?
Posted on by An Xiao Mina
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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Watching the Election from The Post-Truth Future
Posted on by Christina Xu
(This is the expanded version of a series of tweets I posted on Monday; they’re collected in a 88 Bar post here.)
Weibo pushes out about a dozen general news notifications a day about everything from trending topics to celebrity gossip to major world events. Monday afternoon, on my way…
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Fake news on Weibo stokes support for Trump in China
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Explaining why Twitter is worth less than its “Chinese clone”
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A few days ago, Tech In Asia published the provocatively titled article, Twitter is now worth less than its Chinese clone. Coming fresh off the heels of Twitter’s recently-failed acquisition talks, the article definitely resonated with many members of the tech community. But as many of us know,…
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Pictures of Chinese People Scanning QR Codes
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On the way back to Shanghai from our fieldwork trip in rural Guizhou, Tricia and I decided to go shopping at Guiyang’s Hunter City Mall. Guiyang is the capital city of the poorest province in China, but it’s…
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What the internet users in China thought about the China-themed Met Gala
Posted on by Christina Xu
This year’s Met Gala had the unfortunate theme “China: Through the Looking Glass”, which was, according to their curators, “not about China per se, but about a China that exists as a collective fantasy.”
Um. Oookay.
But what did the 600 million or so internet users in “China per se” think about the…
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The Free Lunch case for inefficient, redundant design
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Hong Kong Citizens’ Online, Memetic Protest
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Like pretty much anyone else paying attention to the story, I was stunned to see the images of protests in Hong Kong, with people of all ages donning black to rail against Beijing’s plan to enact national education. Hong Kongers deemed it brainwashing, a paternalistic move from Beijing to inculcate the special territory into its ways. The sheer scale of…
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Real Name Registration One Month Later
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Real name registration has come and gone. The article Tricia and I penned for Wired noted some of the dangers behind the requirements to register one’s real name (it’s quite rigorous – you have to include your identification card):
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