Comments on: Google leaving China? http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/01/13/google-leaving-china/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Liz Ellcessor http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/01/13/google-leaving-china/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:25:37 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=872#comment-265 Really great points, Wes – I obviously can’t comment on the situation on the ground as well as you can!

For more on the local situation, though, I thought Tricia Wang’s comments were really interesting. She’s currently doing work with Chinese migrants and technology, and she gets into a few of the immediate and long-term possibilities of the Google/Baidu situation.

]]> By: Wes Jacks http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/01/13/google-leaving-china/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:47:00 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=872#comment-227 A good summary of the situation, Liz. But, as someone living here, I’d caution readers to be skeptical of any quotes that imply this will be a real ‘wake up call’ to average internet users in China. They know their internet is limited, and this particular blip will probably do little to shake things up. News media here is already casting Google as a whiny international company who has failed to conquer China in the way it wanted to and is now trying ignore Chinese law and infuse Western ideology into the realm of business. In any case, locals here tend to cheer pretty loudly when foreign companies are outmatched by local ones, as is clearly the case in this area of the market.

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