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Internet and Mobile Helped The Boom of Information

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 15:18 — bens
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Bruno Wu
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Information Revolution
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http://media.asiasociety.org/video/chinaboom/BW-InternetAndMobile.mp4
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We have much greater transparency and freedom [now]. Mostly, we owe this to the internet and mobile media.

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<p>Think about the level of freedom that we enjoy. Even if it is not perfect, we are still in the mode of changing and creating more openness. If you look five years back and ten years back, we have much greater transparency and freedom [now]. Mostly, we owe this to the internet and mobile media. As you know, China has over 200 million internet population now, and over half a billion mobile users. This has created a new, formal medium that has made the dissemination of information much easier and faster. Certainly, it means that a lot of garbage also gets distributed faster. And a lot of the grass roots, for example, nationalism, got a much easier medium to be spread. But, by and large, I think internet and mobile helped the boom of information in China.</p>
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Bruno Wu talks about how internet and mobile media have facilitated the spread of information and, as such, have increased transparency and freedom in China.