Social Networking Problem by: Pattamon Aksharanugraha Section1 ITCS486 Multimedia Data Technologies China'sChina's
in January 2011, Sociologist Yu JianRong opened an account on the popular Chinese microblog; Sina Weibo, to encourage people to take a photo of abandoned children to help them come back home with their families. INTRODUCTIO N
Yu started his campeign before the Chinese New Year holiday. A few days later, there were lots of information and pictures were posted there, and the audience of the blog devoloped in the tens of thousands. This was a success in children rescuing according to the news media in China. INTRODUCTIO N
Yu gave the interview that the influence of social media which can change the social environment. On the other hand, China’s Central Propaganda Department ceased Yu’s project and criticize on his project. INTRODUCTIO N
Social Media in china Chinese government blocks all access to foreign sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, or Youtube. Internet users have to slip around China’s system Internet Connection to access international websites. So that it requires lots of technical skills, only people who specialize at technologies can access them, known as China’s Great Firewall. Numerous copycat services sprung up and evolved into uniquely Chinese entities.
Social Media in china State authorities have developed a range of strategies to manage the Internet. Block websites, scan content for keywords Every post in the Internet has to ensure that it doesn’t violate intentionally against state power, damaging the honor of the state, and so on.
NOTABLE Problem Issue Chinese government state chose to officially ignore the 20-year anniversary of the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in June 2009.
Tiananmen Square 20 th Anniversary Chinese goverment blocked instant message platform twitter.com, Hotmail and Flickr.com. Internet is cracked down to prevent it from being used as a discussion tool about this situation. Internet watchdogs patrol the Internet all the time to block various websites.
Tiananmen Square 20 th Anniversary
Chinese Microblog Service Sina launched its microblog service, Sina Weibo in August Sina has grown about 100 million registered users in February 2011, that Facebook had to reach that number by four years. It incorporates various functions of social media features, like upload images and videos direstly into their feeds, and post their short status like Twitter.
Chinese Microblog ServicE
TOP3 Social networking websites in china renren.com Kaixin001.com 51.com
Social Media a Potential Problem for Chinese Regime after Middle East Revolutions M3lws
Renren.com Began as a Facebook clone called Xiaonei.com In August 2009, it changed its name to renren Owned by Oak Pacific Interactive and has had over $400M pumped into investors Softbank.
kaixin001.com Extremely popular among people who work for multitional companies, ad agencies and other white collar companies. Based on relatively Wealthy users
51.com Mostly used by people who lived in lower tier cities and even rural areas.
references /china-to-netizens-shut-up.html /china-to-netizens-shut-up.html / htmlhttp://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_china/ / html _social_network_sites.phphttp:// _social_network_sites.php