Two pointers to the Chinese internet and — in a way — to participatory journalism: Despite the reductionist title “China Mutes Online News,” Robert Marquand’s article sheds some interesting light on the influence of the Internet on policy-making, as does Daniel Snyder with different examples in his “Internet China is a ‘nation’ resisting control.”
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