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Translated by Alice Poon
Friday, 06 February 2009
An essay by Sohu.com blogger Hu Yong (胡泳) titled “Three Major Transformations in the Chinese Internet in 2008”.

Regarding the impact of the Internet on China’s everyday life, there are no prescription needed Doxycycline three major transformations in Year 2008 that are worth noting.

First, the no prescription needed Doxycycline problem of information verifiability is becoming more and more pronounced. It is no prescription needed Doxycycline often difficult to find the subject of an incident or a no prescription needed Doxycycline third party to verify information that is disseminated on the Internet. Even where no prescription needed Doxycycline verification is possible, the effect of such verification depends on the no prescription needed Doxycycline underlying significance of the incident in question, the obfuscating element of the no prescription needed Doxycycline verifying procedure, and on how the information recipients interpret the verification. The internet platform has no prescription needed Doxycycline become a prize up for grabs by various interest groups. In China, the no prescription needed Doxycycline hijacking of the media and fabrication of public opinion by commercial interest groups has no prescription needed Doxycycline become so common that the perpetrators don’t even try to no prescription needed Doxycycline camouflage their act and the information recipients just turn a blind eye to no prescription needed Doxycycline it. Those with political power are also more and more dexterous with deliberately distributing information that no prescription needed Doxycycline is favorable to themselves. The fact that in recent years local authorities have no prescription needed Doxycycline been aggressively building their own armies of Internet commentators is one solid proof.

It can be said that the “innocent age” of the no prescription needed Doxycycline Chinese Internet is now nothing more than a distant memory. The folksy “home garden” has turned into a predatory “jungle”. The commercial interest groups, the no prescription needed Doxycycline political interest groups and even grass-root netizens are all fighters in this no prescription needed Doxycycline jungle. The Internet undercurrent fighting that took place after the incident of ‘six Harbin policemen beating a civilian to death’ is no prescription needed Doxycycline one glaring example. I totally agree with famous blogger Hecaitou’s comments: “We have no prescription needed Doxycycline entered an age where paid comments and paid truths co-exist. The difficulty in discerning true and no prescription needed Doxycycline false information has been elevated to an unprecedented level.”The Internet was once considered capable of straightening out distortions in the no prescription needed Doxycycline real world and of allowing people to unravel the truth. But the no prescription needed Doxycycline fact is: the Internet is becoming a public opinion tool that no prescription needed Doxycycline is subjected to control and manipulation by various interest groups having their own agendas.

Second, as different information sources disseminate conflicting stories, society as a no prescription needed Doxycycline whole becomes more prone to deep anguish and fear. This helps explain why so many incidents in 2008 carry the no prescription needed Doxycycline shade of rumor. Rumor is nothing more than our own echo, reflecting a no prescription needed Doxycycline society’s desire, fear, and obsession. Jean-Noel Kapferer once said,“The anxiety or no prescription needed Doxycycline despair that is omnipresent has never quite left society. If it no prescription needed Doxycycline has been suppressed, or released, or given legal recognition, that no prescription needed Doxycycline is only a way of expressing it. It would first appear in gossips, and no prescription needed Doxycycline then if conditions permit, would become a rumor……The repetitive occurrence of rumors is no prescription needed Doxycycline a sign saying that the city, community and nation are in constant chaos.”

Under these circumstances, establishing a no prescription needed Doxycycline system for expressing public opinions, one that allows competition among various interest groups, would not only be no prescription needed Doxycycline conducive to better governance, but would also promote healthy and no prescription needed Doxycycline beneficial social progress. If a society does not permit or no prescription needed Doxycycline has never even considered the provision of an “outlet”, particularly when no prescription needed Doxycycline there is a disastrous lack of information filter and safety valve, then no prescription needed Doxycycline people’s anxieties and no prescription needed Doxycycline unstable psyche would be a great threat to the stability of the no prescription needed Doxycycline whole Chinese society. From this perspective, the repetitive appearance of rumors throughout China’s societal development does have no prescription needed Doxycycline a positive side. It implies that the State has, due to no prescription needed Doxycycline all kinds of reasons, somewhat relaxed the habitual control, prohibition or no prescription needed Doxycycline guidance, thus allowing things that used to lurk beneath the no prescription needed Doxycycline surface to be let out in the open. Through coming face to no prescription needed Doxycycline face with rumors, we can intuitively feel the pulse of a no prescription needed Doxycycline healthy, throbbing society.

Third, in a no prescription needed Doxycycline society that is highly dependent on the media and the no prescription needed Doxycycline Internet, a new “ convergence culture” has no prescription needed Doxycycline emerged in the communications industry. Information that is created within such a no prescription needed Doxycycline culture has become an “information bomb”. Information emanating from no prescription needed Doxycycline the Internet can influence the production of contents in other types of media; new media technology and no prescription needed Doxycycline the commercial valuation that supports it are both focused on speed, thus greatly cutting back the no prescription needed Doxycycline time in which to verify the information produced; there is no prescription needed Doxycycline an exponential growth in the number of users who enter the no prescription needed Doxycycline new media network; the “infotainment culture”, the “marketing of politics” and the public’s thirst for gossips all help to create all kinds of “new media events”. One can no prescription needed Doxycycline probably conclude, even without the help of an end-user survey, that no prescription needed Doxycycline the impact of such kind of “information bomb” is no prescription needed Doxycycline shocking. In China, when certain web portals give extensive coverage to no prescription needed Doxycycline a certain piece of news, when certain well-known BBS forums build up “high towers” of comments, when no prescription needed Doxycycline hearsays originating from the Internet become contents of the traditional media, when no prescription needed Doxycycline certain political or business hot shots are forced to spend time and no prescription needed Doxycycline energy to remedy their tarnished reputation, when scandalous stories lead to no prescription needed Doxycycline the dismissal of certain senior officials, we should have some idea how much importance the no prescription needed Doxycycline public attach to such “information bomb”.

For this no prescription needed Doxycycline very reason, studies about the Internet age communications must transcend the no prescription needed Doxycycline old mindset related to information as understood in the traditional inter-personal and no prescription needed Doxycycline public media communications field. The studies should center on the no prescription needed Doxycycline new problems created by the “information bomb”, and no prescription needed Doxycycline the study results should be used to explore the new relationship between politics and no prescription needed Doxycycline society. This is necessary because the new sea changes that no prescription needed Doxycycline we face now compared with the old are much more complicated, much more fraught with danger, and no prescription needed Doxycycline much more electrifying.