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Defending Authoritarian Regime Online: Rise of Voluntary Fifty Centers in Chinese Cyberspace
Rongbin Han, University of California, Berkeley Rongbin Han is a Ph.D. candidate at Political Science Department at University of California, Berkeley. His primary interests are contentious politics, social movements and comparative democratization. His dissertation focuses on internet governance in China, particularly how state and non-state actors interact on online forums and bulletin board systems (BBSes), not only on censorship, but also on mass opinion engineering and discourse competition. -- Ten years ago, when China #39;s Internet population totaled 22.5 million and Facebook and Twitter had not even been conceived, a group of researchers came together to organize a conference to study the Internet in China. By all indications even then, it was clear that China would have a major impact on the global digital economy. Ten years on, that foresight has been vindicated. China today has the largest Internet population of any country and it has made its presence felt in the Internet space. In all aspects of the Internet -- online gaming, micro blogging, search engines, ecommerce, content regulation, Internet governance, international domain names -- China is both changing and being changed by the Internet. The annual Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) investigates these phenomena, asking probing questions into what, how, to what extent, and why these changes are taking and have taken place. This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars, analysts ...From:USChinaInstituteViews:2 0ratingsTime:11:58More inEducation

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