POL 3114 Chapter : From fart people to citizens reading notes.doc
6 Jul 2014
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The rise of such online platforms has given chinese netizens an unprecedented capacity for self-publishing and communication, albeit within a heavily censored environment. Nevertheless, chinese netizens are still speaking in a heavily monitored environment, and so their demands for greater freedom of information and expression often find voice through coded language and metaphors that allow them to avoid outright censorship. The government"s pervasive and intrusive censorship system has generated equally massive resentment among chinese netizens. In recent years, chinese netizens have shown that they possess boundless creativity and ingenuity in finding such ways to express themselves despite stifling government restrictions on online speech. Internet language, however, has nurtured new subcultures in which style and camaraderie have become values in their own right, and in which cyber-assemblies have emerged.
