It’s commencement season in America again, and quite a few heavy hitters have already spoken. On Tuesday, the Guardian published its first speaker roundup, featuring Vice President Joe Biden, First Lady Michelle Obama, and former president Bill Clinton. Yet it was a speech by Vice President Joe Biden that seemed to draw the most attention [...]
This article also appears in The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. A recent blog post from a Peking University student on Chinese social networking site Renren.com about his girlfriend’s shopping habit went viral online. In the last four days, it has been shared over 26,000 times. At first glance, it is nothing more [...]
We would like to think social media is a democratizing experience, but admit it, it is also a hierarchy. The bewildering array of services and applications offers a plethora of opportunities to validate one’s own technological acumen and social connections and look down on the less fortunate. (You still use Hotmail? Uhmm, no judgment.) The [...]
We all call it the Internet, but we see very different things. Given the existence of China’s Great Firewall (and the unique preferences of China’s netizens), some have said that China has an Intranet, not an Internet. If that’s true, what are the differences between American and Chinese social networking sites? What about the differences [...]
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