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The professional social network is targeting a new territory, despite the likelihood of government censorship.
Jeff Weiner, CEO of professional network LinkedIn, announced Monday that his company has released a version of the service in simplified Chinese, making it one of the largest American social networks to target a country known for its censorship of Internet services.
"The new simplified Chinese website will broaden our reach to the country's more than 140 million professionals who currently represent roughly one in five of the world's knowledge workers," Weiner wrote in an article posted to the LinkedIn Web site.
Weiner, however, didn't ignore the elephant in the room: the Chinese government. The company, he said, knows that it will need to comply with government requirements to remain operational, and that it did not take that decision lightly.
"Extending our service in China raises difficult questions, but it is clear to us that the decision to proceed is the right one," Weiner said.
Though it's not completely clear how LinkedIn will enforce government-imposed restrictions, Weiner promised three things: to implement restrictions on content only when required, to be transparent in its dealings with China, and to protect the rights and data of members.
LinkedIn currently touts 277 million members and seeks to connect professionals everywhere. "We believe that individuals in the United States, China, and beyond will benefit substantially from Chinese professionals connecting with each other and LinkedIn members in other parts of the world."
Still, the move is bound to create a few waves in Silicon Valley, where censorship is a touchy subject. Facebook, Twitter, Google, and many other Internet services remain blocked in mainland China. Earlier Monday, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg noted at Mobile World Congress that China remains a challenge and suggested that the social network may not even be able to infiltrate the populous region with its Internet.org initiative.
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LinkedIn launches in China
Business networking site LinkedIn has launched a Chinese version, attempting to tap the huge market while navigating a strict censorship regime that has seen other foreign social media giants banned.
China has the world's largest online community with more than 618 million users. But its so-called Great Firewall blocks any online forums or content deemed sensitive, and it has barred access to Facebook and Twitter for several years.
Foreign tech giants must abide by strict rules to operate in the country. While the Chinese version of LinkedIn allows users to post public comments, unlike its English-language counterpart it does not currently allow group discussions.
LinkedIn has pledged to be limited and open about its compliance.
"As a condition for operating in the country, the government of China imposes censorship requirements on internet platforms," chief executive Jeff Weiner said in a statement on its website.
Weiner promised that "government restrictions on content will be implemented only when and to the extent required" and that it "will be transparent about how it conducts business in China".
"LinkedIn strongly supports freedom of expression and fundamentally disagrees with government censorship. At the same time, we also believe that LinkedIn's absence in China would deny Chinese professionals a means to connect with others on our global platform," he said.
The company, which targets working professionals on the job market, said it was targeting more than 140 million Chinese users -- nearly half its existing 277 million global members.
Its English-language version has been available in China for more than a decade, attracting four million users, the statement said.
British-based technology site theregister.co.uk was dismissive, saying: "In a nutshell, Weiner and co decided a censored LinkedIn would still be more beneficial for China's business professional than no LinkedIn at all".
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
The air is abuzz with self-censorship accusations against Hong Kong's media flying like a swarm of locusts - and a diktat from one leading editor seems to have stirred something of a hornets' nest.
South China Morning Post editor-in- chief Wang Xiangwei has banned use of the word "locusts" to describe mainland visitors, except if absolutely necessary as part of a direct quote.
This is despite the fact that the snappy word has been regularly used by the SCMP's headline writers for the past couple of years, with not a hint of criticism leveled against them for doing so - until now.
Wang's e-mail to staff was quickly leaked to the outside world and pounced on by both print and online media.
It also coincided with an appeal by the Hong Kong Journalists Association for media professionals to report any cases of self-censorship.
It's an ugly world out there, and adhering to political correctness doesn't change the facts. No doubt locust is insulting - but an outright ban on the word is totally unnecessary.
Just tell it the way it is - self- censorship, or not.
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February 26, 2014
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports Your Universe Online
Despite the availability of DVDs and other media products claiming to help babies learn to read, these goods dont actually instill reading skills in infants, according to new research appearing in the Journal of Educational Psychology.
While we cannot say with full assurance that infants at this age cannot learn printed words, our results make clear they did not learn printed words from the baby media product that was tested, senior author Susan Neuman, a professor researchers at New York Universitys Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, said Tuesday in a statement.
In order to test whether or not these media products could actually help infants develop reading skills, Neuman and colleagues from Lakehead University, the University of Toronto and the University of Michigan examined 117 babies between the ages of nine and 18 months who were randomly placed in treatment or control groups.
Those babies in the treatment group were given a baby media product such as a DVD, a set of word and picture flashcards or a flip book while the children in the control group did not. The treatment group infants used the products daily over a seven-month span as researchers conducted one home visit, four laboratory visits, and monthly assessments of language development for both the treatment and control groups.
Neumans team tested the reading skills in the laboratory by having them recognize the names and sounds of letters, as well as their vocabulary, their ability to identify words on sight, and their reading comprehension levels. A mixture of eye-tracking tasks and standardized measures were used to study outcomes at each developmental stage.
Using a state-of-the art eye-tracking technology, which follows even the slightest eye movements, the researchers were able to closely monitor how the infants distributed their attention and how they shifted their gaze from one location to another when shown specific words and phrases, the university explained.
The results of the research, which included criterion and standardized measures of emergent and early reading skills, found no noticeable difference between those babies who had been exposed to the media-based learning tools and the control group on all but one of the 14 assessments conducted.
The lone exception was the parents belief that the children were learning new words, despite evidence to the contrary. On exit interviews with the parents, Neuman said that moms and dads had great confidence that their children were learning to read and had benefited from the use of such programs. Her teams findings indicate that their faith in those educational DVDs and other vocabulary development tools is misplaced.
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New Study Confirms Instructional Media Can't Teach Babies To Read