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Mary Barzee

Governance & Anti-Corruption > WGI 1996-2009 Interactive > Home - 2 views

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democracy governance corruption

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  • Mary Barzee on 23 Jun 10
     
    Worldwide Governance Indicators. This is the Web site Gabriela suggested in class about democracy.
Mary Barzee

Dominant in Japan, Softbank Now Aims at China - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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censorship china media IV

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  • Mary Barzee on 30 Jun 10
     
    "China has been a notoriously difficult market to crack for overseas Web companies. Google, eBay and Yahoo, not to mention social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, have all struggled there, because of strong domestic competition as well as government blocking and censorship. But in its push into China, Softbank has avoided many of these headaches by focusing on e-commerce, local social networking sites and online games - sidestepping the difficulties of government censorship."
  • Mary Barzee on 30 Jun 10
     
    This article makes me wonder whether Softbank can bring new media and social networking, broadband Internet, etc. to China and allow China to continue it's censorship practices... IV
Mary Barzee

Should policy be debated in social media? | Articles | FutureGov - Transforming Governm... - 0 views

www.futuregov.asia/...policy-be-debated-social-media

china social media media public policy policy

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  • Jiang Yichun, Deputy Division Chief, Secretariat of Dalian Administrative Service Centre, China (pictured) Social media in China tend to be a means for entertainment or making friends. Anyone is free to comment on these platforms. But when it comes to policy, social media are out of bounds - it is inappropriate for Chinese civil servants to be discussing policy on these platforms. China’s Premier, Hu Jintao, launched a blog some time ago, but it soon closed. In such an open environment where anyone can comment, this includes enemies of the state. Such individuals are often looking to spread rumours about the Chinese government, which are usually inflammatory and counterproductive. Such statements could lead to a misunderstanding of government, and undermine peace and stability. Besides, there are many other ways for government to communicate with citizens, such as online public forums, but these are subject to stringent layers of approval. One of the reasons why Google left China is that it could not accept China’s approval system.
  • Mary Barzee on 25 Jul 10
     
    China using blogs/social media to discuss and form social policy?...Uh - I don't think so....
Mary Barzee

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China's internet 'spin doctors' - 0 views

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censorship china reporters free press democracy spin doctors

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  • Mary Barzee on 30 Jul 10
     
    "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. "
Mary Barzee

Open Government | Center for Democracy & Technology - 1 views

www.cdt.org/open-government

technology democracy Internet free Internet government communication open

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  • Mary Barzee on 16 Jun 10
     
    Keeping the Internet Open Innovative Free
  • Mary Barzee on 16 Jun 10
     
    Tracy found this link and shared it with us via the Google group. It's pretty neat!
Mary Barzee

Google refuses Australian government request to censor YouTube - Telegraph - 0 views

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australian google censorship youtube new media democracy

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  • Mary Barzee on 30 Jun 10
     
    "YouTube's own guidelines already block videos featuring sex, violence, bestiality and child pornography. But under the "refused classification" rules, videos featuring subjects as diverse as euthanasia, drug use and graffiti, would also be banned. Google said it would not voluntarily censor videos on these subjects because exposing the topics to public debate was vital for democracy."
  • Mary Barzee on 30 Jun 10
     
    I'm surprised that a communications minister in Australia would request that Google voluntarility censor videos about drug use and euthanasia. Where would this type of censorship stop? Glad Google politely said "no" citing the importance of access to information for democracy.
vjordan05

Social Media & Web 2.0 in government - 0 views

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Technology media communication social media new media

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  • vjordan05 on 12 Jul 10
     
    Part III - The U.S. government and social media.
Mary Barzee

Google China: Flowers Laid On Google Sign In Beijing (Photos) | NowPublic News Coverage - 0 views

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China censorship google flowers media

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    "Yesterday, Google announced its plans to re-route Chinese traffic to avoid censorship. Google will no longer censor google.cn. Instead, Google will now redirect all Chinese traffic to google.com.hk as a loophole around censorship imposed by Chinese government where it is no longer legally obliged to censor its content. * Google Reroutes China Traffic to Avoid Censorship In a statement, Google said it has discovered that the Gmail accounts of some of the human rights activists in China were being "routinely" accessed by third parties. "
Mary Barzee

CampusProgress.org | Field Report | After Banning Facebook in China, Social Media Still... - 0 views

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social media Facebook china

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  • China has more Internet users than any other country
  • China’s largely anonymous right-wing, online message board community commands disproportionate attention from Communist Party leaders seeking to keep their fingers on the pulse of public opinion
  • Facebook competitors delighted at the bans, quickly sweeping in to claim market share.
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  • in July of 2009, Facebook and Twitter were both banned by the government in the aftermath of violent protests by ethnic Uighurs in China’s Western Xinjiang province
  • Renrenwang
  • founded by college students at a prestigious university — Tsinghua in Beijing
  • rom “Xiaonei,” meaning “within the school,” to “Renren,” meaning “everyone
  • The Chinese site has entirely borrowed Facebook’s interface, including the news feed, app menus, status updates, “wall,” profile, photo albums, notifications, and chat feature — they’re all exactly as they appear on Facebook
  • more people use Qzone, the personal blogging feature of ubiquitous instant messaging program QQ
  • A Qzone page is more of a personal blog than a Facebook-style “profile”; people post their thoughts and photographs chronologically, and members can communicate by public comments or private messages.
  • As for Renren? “I only use that to steal other people’s vegetables”, Qiong says — a reference to a hosted app that allows users to grow and sell virtual crops, itself a model borrowed by the popular Farmville in the US.
  • Mary Barzee on 07 Jul 10
     
    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.
Melanie Travers

Making broadband available to everyone. The national plan of action to improve the infr... - 1 views

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    2008 government publication
Melanie Travers

Finland's National Broadband Policy - 0 views

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finland

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    2007 government publication
Mary Barzee

Guatemala's 'Twitter Revolution' | North Americ... - 1 views

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Latino Twitter Guatemala democracy communication

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  • Mary Barzee on 16 Jun 10
     
    This article is about how Guatemalans used Twitter to share news about corruption within the government. A revolution started with Twitter...sort of
vjordan05

Scare tactics, blocking sites can be bad for kids - 0 views

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  • vjordan05 on 05 Jul 10
     
    Scaring children about the dangers of the Internet and blocking access to social-networking sites can do more harm than good, according to a report released Friday by a committee tasked by the U.S. government to explore online safety.
Anna Shumpert

Mideast, North African countries censor, control media - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

Censorship

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  • Anna Shumpert on 28 Jun 10
     
    The government in many of the countries discussed is censoring social media to keep citizens from sharing/hearing information that may go against the current powers at large.
Mary Barzee

Stories: An American Professor in China | Asian Correspondent - 0 views

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media education china social media censorship filtering

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  • Video sharing sites like Tudou and Youku
  • The central government is hyper-vigiliant and quick to censor moral and political information
  • assimilation and "shanzhai" (knockoff) adaptation
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  • have created a sad, intra-net dirt road in place of the world's information super-highway
Mary Barzee

China Gets Tough with Overzealous Virtual Gamers : NPR - 1 views

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communication global chinese fantasy online games china

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  • Mary Barzee on 18 Jul 10
     
    "August 25, 2005 China is worried too many of its citizens are addicted to online fantasy games. So it's developed new government standards, designating five hours as the limit of healthy roleplaying online. At that time you're life as a magician or warrior will be interrupted with the warning: "You have entered unhealthy game time, please go offline immediately to rest." Failure to follow orders -- leads to lower, or zero, points in the game."
Tracy Kitzman

False Alarm; Google search still working in China - 0 views

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media social filtering china

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  • Tracy Kitzman on 30 Jul 10
     
    Mary- recent news "The company is running the risk of being cut off from the world's most populous country because it is no longer willing to censor search results that China's government considers to be subversive or pornographic."
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