The 35th May and other imaginary inventions

Information and online participation in China through activism and control

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Sat 11 10:00 - 10:20

Since the start, the government in China has promoted the Internet as an instrument of economic development, but also carefully controlled it as a dangerous means of criticising those in power. A tale of the paradox of the Chinese net through lexical inventions, tweets from activists and comment that is paid for.