http://www.fourseasashome.com/2009/12/is-the-internet-the-voice-of-the-people/ four seas as home -- thoughts and observations on china Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:41:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.fourseasashome.com/2009/12/is-the-internet-the-voice-of-the-people/comment-page-1/#comment-293 Twittering social theory – 四海为家 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:03:13 +0000 http://www.fourseasashome.com/?p=590#comment-293 [...] we all know, viral is the way to go if you want to spread information nowadays (including in China, where it’s the hot new tactic for PR campaigns). But I still got a shock when a friend’s status message linked to JHabermas on Twitter. [...] [...] we all know, viral is the way to go if you want to spread information nowadays (including in China, where it’s the hot new tactic for PR campaigns). But I still got a shock when a friend’s status message linked to JHabermas on Twitter. [...]

]]> http://www.fourseasashome.com/2009/12/is-the-internet-the-voice-of-the-people/comment-page-1/#comment-230 stillgoingnative » “manhattan and atlanta burn solid white” Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:16:49 +0000 http://www.fourseasashome.com/?p=590#comment-230 [...] Maria writes of how online campaigns hire mass numbers of people to comment on certain topics, in or.... She concludes that since the threat of media manipulation / meme engineering in this fashion is so easy, independent sources are an absolute necessity. To those in the West, that might sound outlandish: surely the collective voice of reason would drown out obvious forms of manipulation. [...] [...] Maria writes of how online campaigns hire mass numbers of people to comment on certain topics, in or…. She concludes that since the threat of media manipulation / meme engineering in this fashion is so easy, independent sources are an absolute necessity. To those in the West, that might sound outlandish: surely the collective voice of reason would drown out obvious forms of manipulation. [...]

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