Invited talk on Chinese Internet given to US media gatekeepers (http://is.gd/c1Ovx). The talks briefs editors on how Internet is changing China and how China is changing the Internet.
Johns Hopkins SAIS IRP Gatekeepers Talk - Min Jiang
1. How is the Internet Changing China?
How is China Changing the Internet?
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING PROJECT
SAIS, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
WASHINGTON DC (MAY 7, 2010)
Min Jiang (Ph.D.) | Twitter: @mindyjiang
Assistant Professor, Communication, UNCC
2009-2010 Annenberg Fellow, Center for Global Communication Studies
University of Pennsylvania
3. Chinese Internet: An Overview
400 million Internet users (CNNIC, 2010; Reuters, 2010)
2/3 under age 30
182 million bloggers (almost ½ of China’s netizens)
700 million mobile phone users (½ of Chinese population)
117 million Internet mobile phone users
Photos courtesy of MinnPost.Com, eChinaCities.com
6. “We Chinese Need to be Controlled”?
Jackie Chan:
Media quoted me out
of context
Dai Qincheng: (HK)
Netizens demand
Jackie Chan be sent
to North Korea
(reprint)
Han Han:
Read the Emperor’s
mind like Jackie Chan
ChinaNet, douban, Sina Blog (April 23, 2009)
8. Premier Wen Jiaobao Online Chat
知屋漏者在宇下,
知政失者在草野。
He who knows the
leakage of a house
lives under the roof.
He who knows the
mishandling of a
state is among the
populace.
Online chat with Chinese netizens: February 27, 2010
9. Net Advantage vs. State Advantage
Photos TOP: The Prospect Magazine
Photo BOTTOM LEFT: MediaBistro
Photo BOTTOM RIGHT: EvgenyMorozov.com
24. Shishou Mass Unrest 2009:
If Suppression Is Not The Way Forward…
Photo TOP: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-
07/09/content_8403394.htm
Photo Middle: http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20090621_1.htm
Video BOTTOM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5K7U-
TFDY0&feature=player_embedded
25. Ethnic Riots in Xinjiang 2009: Telecom Disconnect
Sources:
TOP: BBC
26. Google Inc. vs. Chinese Gov.
Photo TOP: PortlandMercury
Photo RIGHT: Reuters
28. Getting “Real” on CN Internet 2010
“The Internet is an open
information system. As long
as Chinese Internet connects
with the international web,
harmful information of all
kinds will find its way to our
domestic websites. So long
as Chinese Internet is open
to the public, all sorts of
netizen remarks will
emerge.”
-- Wang Chen,
State Council
Information Office
29. The GFW & The Real Wall
Photos LEFT: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-
11/ff_chinafirewall?currentPage=all
Photo Above: http://www.mobinode.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/internet-cafe.jpg