A new book on Independent Media in Chinese Societies
Via Iam-Chong Ip:
“Hong Kong In-media is a non-profit organization advocating blogger journalism and media activism in Hong Kong.
Recently we’ve published a book titled Info-Rhizome: Report on Independent Media in the Chinese-speaking World. This book is about the recent development of independent media (including small activist media, community radio, blogger, media activist, etc) in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia. The contributors are experienced media workers or bloggers.
We’ve uploaded all chapters of this book onto internet. You may read it here at interlocals.net/?q=node/314
Our book is partially sponsored by a very very small fund. We’ve got to cover more than half the cost. If you want to support our work, you may order a hard copy of this book. For details, please also go to: interlocals.net/?q=node/314 (We accept payment through paypal)”
August 18th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Sounds interesting, really. I’m always fascinated how grassroots media like blogs and such work in such restricted environments like China. Apparently services like Freenet are used in China by the more hardcore political dissidents, and proxy use is common, but I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the independent media and journalism is out in the open to some extent.