How The Internet Has Positively Affected The Culture Of China

Technology, Society, and Culture SUMB11 Sec F |

How the Internet has Positively Affected the Culture of China

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Week 5 |

Dionne Collins

9/30/2011

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How the Internet has Positively Affected the Culture of China (Dionne Collins)

A. The internet & China

1. China’s Introduction to the Internet

2. Initial growth & development

B. China’s Statistical Internet Growth & Usage

1. Chinese Internet Users

2. Survey statistic report on China’s Internet Usage

C. Chinese Internet users educational abilities

1. Population of Internet users

2. Demographics and status of Chinese Internet users

D. Internet benefits China’s economy and education

1. Boost in economy for internet based companies

E. Chinese Internet Industry

1. China’s science and technology

2. Chinese government promotes internet usage and security

3. China’s expected continued growth in the internet industry

The advent of the Internet has been one of the most exciting major events in the second half of the 20th century. The ancient dream of “a scholar knows all things happening in the world without venturing outdoors” has finally become a reality. Since 1993, the Internet started to take off. One country specifically is in the midst of taking over as the world’s economic leader. This country is China, the world’s newest super power.

The internet has helped the country prosper; however, spawning from this free flow of information is a force of educated revolutionaries that are tired of censorship and big government. The big explosion in economics provided by the internet and technology has pushed China to the forefront of global powers. China has emerged and will continue to rise on the world stage because the government has put its faith in prosperity in the technology sector.

According to Miniwatts (2010), “the first direct link from Mainland China to the Internet was established in 1993 at the Institute of High...