Delli Carpini Q1 – Jiang Min and Sarah to respond to each other. two different pictures?
Q2 – what would take to have a systematic and more institutionlized mechanism to use the internet as freedom tools?
Q3 – Civil spaces including NGOs and SNSs, how do they involve public into collective acction?
Q4 – Yuan Le’s study. call for social change within the gov framework? awareness of political issues shown in the forums?
Hongmei Li Q5 – commercial influence on internet use in china?
Monroe Price Q6 – whether the circumstance suggests the internet is different from the press? what is the cultural and political implication of the results to put china into this non-free category, considering countries have no access so no control?
Q7 – sentences of bloggers in china? they are not jailed because of blogging but coz they are already dissidents. the left-right division? too simple categorization.
Jiang Min – deliberation defintions are different. how ppl talk about public issues in such spaces. not about decision-making. chinese ppl increasingly have economic and cultural freedom. but politically it could be quite difficult. having more debate itself is great.
Sarah – not too different. more focusing on another element. there are vivid discussions but also limitations. translating online discussion into offline mobilization is what they try to see now. malaysia is doing this coz they have less strict control over the internet. and ppl were sentenced for online activities. maybe not to say bloggers. and how to weight the obstacles to access vs content control? from a political org perspective, they weigh censorship a bit more. compared to turkey, chinese censorhip is more effective. the issue of censorship itself is sencored that ppl dont know how to go around the censorship, which is a public info in turkey.
Yuan – Left-right discourse is a new wave of cultural revolution. it might be a bit distant from young generations. but we see increasingly such discourse onine. political orientation or ideologies to support their psychological needs? they dont know exactly what left and right means. but they still lable others and use them an attack on oppponents. so the left-right lables are often seen online. this classification is useful to study such labeling behaviors at least.
Jiang Min – no press freedom in china coz nobody was allowed to have press. that could be one indicator of press freedom. collecitve action might be difficult in china if it is only political. but other types of collective action are actually welcomed by the gov such as the relief help during earthquake.
a nice exchange of opinions bt jiang and sarah.