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

[Alex Leavitt]

Related: Tricia Wang is finishing up her book on what might be described as
networked individualism (for which she focuses on identity making, dubbing
it the "elastic self") for Chinese youth. You can follow her work here:
http://elasticself.tumblr.com/

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Alexander Leavitt
PhD Student
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
http://alexleavitt.com
Twitter: @alexleavitt



On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>wrote:

> 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.
>
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