By Star Chang, posted Jul 11, 2010 at 12:00 AM, 124 views,

Network media playing larger role in spreading news in China

Thanks to the rapid development and growing popularity of the Internet, network media in China is playing a larger role in expressing public opinions and in the distribution of information about major news events. According to some journalism research, network media has showed maturation and successfully played its role when covering some of the important news event in China, and they are challenging the mainstream media. We just hope that the Chinese government won’t take too much censorship action on those network media. Majority of the Chinese don’t use facebook and twitter, because both of the services are behind the GFW, they are using some others local similar service, known as ‘开心网‘(Happy site) and ‘新浪微博‘(Sina microblog). You can check out more info here, and here.

Source: Xinhua