episode 34: FOW034 - Chinese Internet Culture (with Gabriele de Seta) [EN]
Introduction
- Gabriele de Seta
- Episode #23: Michelle Proksell about the Chinternet
- 2011 Wenzhou train accident
- harmony crab (hexie) and grass mud horse (caonima)
- China Digital Times on Chinese Internet slang
- Pepperidge Farm remembers
- „netizens“: not a self-description, but an outside categorization
- James Leibold: More Than a Category: Han Supremacism on the Chinese Internet
- Gabriele de Seta: “Meng? It Just Means Cute”: A Chinese Online Vernacular Term in Context
- Geremie R. Barme and Sang Ye: The Great Firewall of China (1997)
- Astroturfing
- private companies, local governments as actors
- city country divide
- vpn crackdown rumors
- Harsh Taneja and Angela Xiao Wu: Does the Great Firewall Really Isolate the Chinese? Integrating Access Blockage With Cultural Factors to Explain Web User Behavior
- platforms yeah, web nay
- platforms and government cooperation/alignment
- Alibaba’s high-interest savings app
- mobile payment apps: Alipay, Wechat Pay
- meme/sticker folklore: biaoqing expression, personal sticker packs (basically GIFs)
- Jiang Zemin
- Gabriele de Seta: The Socialization of Incivility in Postdigital China
- Gabriele de Seta: Trolling, and Other Problematic Social Media Practices, in: The SAGE Handbook of Social Media
- 50 Cent bloggers:
- Gary King’s (Harvard professor) most recent paper on the topic
- Atlantic coverage of the 2017 paper: „Trolling by distraction„
- Washington Post on his 2016 paper: „The Chinese government fakes nearly 450 million social media comments a year. This is why.„
- LINE – Japanese-Korean company
- Facebook censoring Taiwanese independence advocates?
- benshengren and waishengren in Taiwan
- Gabriele’s favorite meme: Jinkela
- Stereotype of the Japanese devil on Chinese TV
- Gabriele’s visual essay on Jinkela
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