MacKinnon on Chinese Blogger Conference
We posted last week about the upcoming and first-ever Chinese bloggers conference that took place this past weekend. If you weren't able to tune in via IRC, there's a conference blog with notes and screenshots organized by session.
Rebecca MacKinnon, Berkman fellow, attended the conference and blogged her thoughts on the conference - what people were talking about, what's new, what trends she foresees:
Another thing about this story: it’s not so much about what the internet is “bringing” to the Chinese, or how the internet is coming in as an outside force and “changing China.” The real story is about how Chinese users are taking the connectivity, tools and applications, internalizing them, and making them their own.
To keep reading, visit her blog: http://rconversation.blogs.com
Rebecca MacKinnon, Berkman fellow, attended the conference and blogged her thoughts on the conference - what people were talking about, what's new, what trends she foresees:
Another thing about this story: it’s not so much about what the internet is “bringing” to the Chinese, or how the internet is coming in as an outside force and “changing China.” The real story is about how Chinese users are taking the connectivity, tools and applications, internalizing them, and making them their own.
To keep reading, visit her blog: http://rconversation.blogs.com