[Air-L] China: networked individualism and Internet work-arounds
Barry Wellman
wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Mon Aug 5 05:53:50 PDT 2013
I echo Charles Ess in noting the rise of individualism in China. (Or to
put it another way, the ending of the short-term Cultural Rev suppression
of individualism.)
Dare I call it "Networked Individualism" cause people are multiply
connected.
Our Networked book explicitly looked only at North America, but I'd love
to see folks extend the ideas to Asia (N, S, SE) and Europe.
On another, related note: peeps shouldnt assume that because authorities
block FB & Twitter, that no one can get. My admittedly non-random sample
has work-arounds, which I won't disclose. But I will disclose that U
Toronto's Citizen Lab headed by Ron Deibert has been getting
work-around software to China, Iran, etc. for years. All hail
PS: Blocking of FB in China another reason NOT to move this list to FB.
Barry Wellman
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