Mon., April 15Internet Activism in China After the Arab Spring

Asian Studies Lecture Series: "Internet Activism in China after the Arab Spring”  Event will be Monday, April 15 at 5 p.m. in the DiMenna Nyselius Library Multimedia Room. Prof. Guobin Yang’s talk "Internet Activism after the Arab Spring” How has internet activism in China changed in response to the “Arab Spring”? This talk compares major cases of online protest before and after the Arab Spring with respect to the issue areas, demands, repertoire of contention, and state responses. Dr. Guobin Yang is an Associate Professor of Communication and Sociology in the Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (Columbia University Press, 2009) and co-editor (with Ching Kwan Lee) of Re-Envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China (2007). This is an event sponsored by Asian Studies Program, International Studies Program, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Department of Communication. For more information, contact Jiwei Xiao / 203-254-4000x3475 / jxiao@fairfield.edu