How Chinese Netizens Use the Internet
The stereotype of the Chinese Internet is that it functions as a "Great Firewall,"
intended to keep unauthorized information out. This one-sided view of information
suppression overlooks the creative and dynamic ways that Chinese netizens navigate
online platforms. In this webinar, two specialists will explore how netizens create
content, react to government information, modify their own search behaviors, and actively
shape Internet culture in China today.
Speakers include:
• Shaohua Guo, Carleton College
• Charles Chang, Duke Kunshan University
Speakers include:
• Shaohua Guo, Carleton College
• Charles Chang, Duke Kunshan University
Shaohua Guo is an associate professor at Carleton College. She received her Ph.D.
from the University of Texas at Austin and her M.A. and B.A. from Beijing Normal University.
She is the author of The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Public, forthcoming from Stanford University Press.
Charles Chang is an assistant professor at Duke Kunshan University. Prior to this post, he held postdoctoral appointments at Yale, Purdue, and Stanford, where he specialized in digital humanities and computational methods. He is currently working on a book on political communication in contemporary Chinese society.
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