January 2010
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My Suggestions for Making Google's Services More...
Google announced on its company blog that Chinese hackers had attacked its users and as a result Google.CN may leave China due to the security breaches.
While unfortunate that Google.CN may be shutting down, my ethnographic work in China revealed five things that aren’t being told in the current story:
Many Chinese internet users don’t find Google to be very useful. Therefore, a...
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Internet cafes in China: The Closest Thing to a...
I did some preliminary fieldwork at the Xinke Migrant school in Wuhan. Here is a story that I think illustrates the misunderstandings about “internet addiction” among youth in China and why government initiated policies limiting internet use among youth will not be effective. These policies aim to curb internet use among youth in public internet cafes, not in private homes....
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New Product: Microsoft Mischief, an interactive...
The new Microsoft Mischief seems like an ingenious extension of powerpoint! I would love to see this technology being used in the classroom.
This product is being marketed as a tool for teachers in less unevenly developed countries.
One of the things that came to my mind was that other than the basic tools needed (computer, projector, stable electricity for at least 1 hour), do...