Although China and Google are now going separate ways, they have more in common than they think… Neither China nor Google are the ambassadors of freedom of speech, they are just representatives of two different models of Internet censorship: Internet censorship by state coercion and economic Internet censorship by repressive tolerance.
Google vs. China = economic censorship vs. state-censorship of the Internet
christian fuchs, April 3rd 2010
Book “The Internet & Society”: Video Q&A
Students in the seminar “Leadership & Change in a Networked Society“, taught by Jason Guard, at Virginia Commonwealth University (http://ww.vcu.edu) have read my book ”Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age”. They produced a YouTube video, in which they asked questions about the book to me. I responded with a video.
christian fuchs, April 3rd 2010