With well over 300 million citizens online China is now the single biggest networked nation on the planet. This has caused a massive shift in social behaviour and has led to a number of new modes of discursive production in Chinese society. Alan discusses a number of web-based case studies that show how the popular misconception of China - as a country where people are unable to speak out against authority- can be seen as being actively subverted through internet based mass-intervention.
Through analysing social network behaviour within the PRC it can be seen that citizens are heavily monitoring the behaviour of officials - unveiling truth in politics and societal wrongdoings - in order to enact a kind of 'deliberative democracy'. Often through humour and subversion, rather than traditional political rhetoric.
This is a great insight into an alternative view of China and the way the world wide web is working there.
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