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Part III: How do these problems relate to activities across different areas of life - not only in formal educational institutions per se, but also in informal contexts and activities of learning? Using fresh data from the Trendstream Global Web Index-a recurring survey of more than 50,000 users of social platforms in 18 markets-we mapped by country how people are sharing information about themselves online. We looked at five broadcast behaviors: blogging, managing a social-network profile, sharing photos, sharing videos, and microblogging.

Great graphic of how various countries across the world are using social Internet or social media. Includes China and the U.S.

Sampling of blocked sites plus fairly detailed discussion of how and why Chinese gov't filters Internet content

"Comments, rumours and opinions can be quickly spread between internet groups in a way that makes it hard for the government to censor. So instead of just trying to prevent people from having their say, the government is also attempting to change they way they think. To do this, they use specially trained - and ideologically sound - internet commentators. "

Keeping the Internet Open Innovative Free

Tracy found this link and shared it with us via the Google group. It's pretty neat!

"Under the plan, called the Bandwidth Initiative, institutions in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda joined together to buy broadband Internet access, offered by satellite, at discounted rates."

This article touches on some of the problems that African countries are having getting needed high-speed Internet. Companies have a monopoly and grossly overcharge, resulting in prices that are many times that of U.S. or European high speed Internet. This sort of parallels the lack of democracy and highlights problems with corruption that cause many nations in Africa to get stuck behind in matters of development and innovation.

"Will the internet bring freedom to oppressed people or can it be controlled so that it cannot threaten repressive regimes?" This would be great in the conclusion of our "paper"/ Web site

Melanie- Mary Internet is a basic human right...

Wow! Just a few days ago an article on YouTube censorship in Turkey! How relevant to section IV of our project!

Good paper

slide 7 shows that the role of entertainment on the Internet is higher than anything else in China.

The purpose of this article is to describe and critique emerging issues about Internet access in schools and school libraries. ... Or are they merely the latest technologies for censorship? ... To a certain degree, therefore, readers participate in creating the meaning of a text based on their own reading history,

Is the Internet really a blessing for democracy? This is actually one of the readings assigned to us for EPS 415

Net provides a comprehensive look at these emerging tactics, raising concern over trends such as the "outsourcing of censorship" to private companies, the use of surveillance and the manipulation of online conversations by undercover agents. The study covers both repressive countries such as China and Iran and democratic ones such as India and the United Kingdom, finding some degree of internet censorship and control in all 15 nations studied.

This is the Wikipedia site concerning Internet censorship in China. While Wikipedia is not the most reliable source, I posted this because of all the great links available at the bottom of the site.

This is a research brief/information capsule from my local school district. It discusses the importance of global education, and on page 6 speaks directly to the issue of the use of the internet in this context. Also provides links to many internet programs/resources on pg. 9.

Excellent collection of links on Censorship and Filtering posted by an Australian organization in 2008

Types and history of new media: Mass media includes print media like newspaper and magazines, electronic media like radio, television and video and new age digital media like internet, blogs and mobile phones. To know the origin and history of media, we should know the growth and evolution of mass media.

The ban of Facebook and Twitter just served to strenghthen Chinese run social networks. One of which has "borrowed" the interface of Facebook. This article talks about a few of the popular Chinese social networking sites.