SOCIAL MEDIA AND CHINAÂ IN THE PAST DECADE
Speaker:Â Dr David Feng
Date:Â Wednesday, 05 November 2014
Time: 14:00 – 16:00
Venue:Â A6.08, Harrow Campus
Chair:Dr Paul Dwyer
OPEN TO ALL
This talk covers China’s social media development over the past decade in general, and in the past few years in particular. Dr Feng has long been actively involved with social media in China: his presentation combines personal experience and zithromax sans ordonnance the reasons behind the phenomenon with a more inter-disciplinary approach. The talk examines the blogging community in China as well as the use of Twitter, Facebook, WeChat and Weibo there and the attitudes to social media of the genericos kamagra en turquia administrations of sale canada amoxil Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping. It also covers key “social mediated†events including the CCTV headquarters fire, the Wenzhou high-speed rail crash and the rise and fall of “big Vs†(prominent social media users with verified accounts). It further discusses what might be next for social media in a country in which the idea of the government being mere keystrokes away was alien just a few years ago.
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