May 16, 2008
The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs invited me to join a panel today on Business, Civil Society, and Politics During the Beijing Games. New York was a little far for lunch, so I joined via YouTube to discuss the fascinating phenomenon of China’s User Generated Propaganda. Mao meets Web 2.0. Below extract shows
Apr 27, 2008
Lei Feng, icon of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, please meet Second Right Brother, your Web 2.0 counterpart. Lei Feng was a selfless and modest soldier devoted to Chairman Mao who was killed by a truck backing up. Created by Mao’s government the old fashioned way – fiat of the propaganda department – Lei Feng was intended
Apr 27, 2008
In continuing fallout from the travails of the Olympic torch, CNN now appears to be entering the Chinese vocabulary in a less than complimentary manner. A university teacher here in Hong Kong reports that his Chinese students now use the expression “so CNN” to mean something that is subjective, lying and deceitful. One student admonished
Apr 21, 2008
The Olympic Torch controversy has inspired a web 2.0 take on national pride: User Generated hip hop propaganda in support of the Beijing Olympics. (There is also a subcategory of video arguments about Tibet, this one by an American anonymized by a Groucho Marx face painted over his face.) They have been big on Chinese
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
