[Air-L] China: networked individualism and Internet work-arounds

[Barry Wellman]

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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