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Liz Carter - Let 100 Voices Speak: How the Internet Is Transforming China and Changing Everything - 9781780769851 - V9781780769851
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Let 100 Voices Speak: How the Internet Is Transforming China and Changing Everything

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Description for Let 100 Voices Speak: How the Internet Is Transforming China and Changing Everything Paperback. How the internet is changing the world's fastest growing superpower, on a scale unknown in modern history Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFD; UBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
From the Occupy movement in the Western world to the Arab Spring and the role of Twitter in the Middle East, the internet and social media is changing the global landscape. China is next. Despite being a heavily-censored society, China has over 560 million active internet users, more than double that of the USA. In this book, social media expert and China-watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming together of activists, ordinary people and cultural trendsetters on a scale unknown in modern history. News about protests and natural disasters, or ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780769851
SKU
V9781780769851
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Liz Carter
Liz Carter is the former Managing Editor of Tea Leaf Nation, one of the most popular blogs covering China in the West, and writes regularly for The Atlantic Monthly and Foreign Policy. She has appeared on Al Jazeera and HuffPost Live as an expert on Chinese media and has written for various print publications. She lives in Washington DC.

Reviews for Let 100 Voices Speak: How the Internet Is Transforming China and Changing Everything
'[Carter's] book offers another valuable window onto these groups [Chinese youth]. She has a lot to say about the crucial role that cyberspace plays in China as the closest thing there is to a public sphere for debate [...]the author writes with the easy familiarity of someone who routinely watches the same programs, hangs out at the same social-media sites ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Let 100 Voices Speak: How the Internet Is Transforming China and Changing Everything


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