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FOW023 - Michelle Proksell and the Chinternet (live @ 32c3 Sendezentrum)
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Introduction
- Guest: Michelle Proksell (Twitter: @proksell; WeChat: mutedrainbow)
- Michelle’s talk at 32c3
Michelle’s research 00:58
- WeChat
- Message in a Bottle: shake phone, find random people near you
- People Nearby: people active within a 1000m radius near you
- Michelle’s current research partner Gabriele de Seta
- Their paper on Chinese selfies: „The Aesthetics of Zipai: From Wechat Selfies to Self-Representation in Contemporary Chinese Art and Photography“
Examples. So many examples. 08:25
- „Demographics“ folder
- 美图秀秀 měitú xiùxiù: photo editing app (English name: Meitu Pic)
- Uniqlo: popular clothing store chain
- E-commerce on WeChat
- Business Insider: „WeChat is helping Chinese buy US homes“
- Tencent, huge internet company
- QQ, instant messenger platform
- WeChat has international appeal/international connections
- Weibo (literally „microblogging“) (often compared to Twitter to make it easier to understand for foreigners)
- Michelle’s „small data“ database, individual assessment, chance of infering something wrong not as high as with big data
- Fundraising through WeChat is also possible
- 红包 hōngbāo: „red envelope“, which is used to gift money (esp. on Chinese New Year) to children and unmarried women
- WeChat described as „China’s homegrown OS (Operating System)“
- can be used to play games
- not an OS in the traditional sense, but in the way its used and the broad functions it provides; driving a lot of app development
- 1.3 billion Chinese: still ~600 million people are still offline (Xi Jinping wants everyone online by 2020)
- Older phones more prevalent in rural areas, not as many smartphones as seen in urban areas. Worse/no 3G coverage in the countryside?
- Migrant workers (PIC 1. bunk 2. selfie with bed in background 3. group of people)
- indicator: bunk beds
- indicator: gestures
- ca 48:00
- „duang“, a Chinese neologism
- 51:40: Escalator memes
- 53:20 Tianjin explosion: „Pray for Tianjin“
- „“ originally intended as a high five, not hands folded in prayer
- Michelle enjoys fish pics
- 520 = 五二零 = wuerling ~> woaini = 我爱你
Q&A 1:01:30
Thank you, Sendezentrum!
64 Episoden
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Manage episode 228654467 series 2490424
Introduction
- Guest: Michelle Proksell (Twitter: @proksell; WeChat: mutedrainbow)
- Michelle’s talk at 32c3
Michelle’s research 00:58
- WeChat
- Message in a Bottle: shake phone, find random people near you
- People Nearby: people active within a 1000m radius near you
- Michelle’s current research partner Gabriele de Seta
- Their paper on Chinese selfies: „The Aesthetics of Zipai: From Wechat Selfies to Self-Representation in Contemporary Chinese Art and Photography“
Examples. So many examples. 08:25
- „Demographics“ folder
- 美图秀秀 měitú xiùxiù: photo editing app (English name: Meitu Pic)
- Uniqlo: popular clothing store chain
- E-commerce on WeChat
- Business Insider: „WeChat is helping Chinese buy US homes“
- Tencent, huge internet company
- QQ, instant messenger platform
- WeChat has international appeal/international connections
- Weibo (literally „microblogging“) (often compared to Twitter to make it easier to understand for foreigners)
- Michelle’s „small data“ database, individual assessment, chance of infering something wrong not as high as with big data
- Fundraising through WeChat is also possible
- 红包 hōngbāo: „red envelope“, which is used to gift money (esp. on Chinese New Year) to children and unmarried women
- WeChat described as „China’s homegrown OS (Operating System)“
- can be used to play games
- not an OS in the traditional sense, but in the way its used and the broad functions it provides; driving a lot of app development
- 1.3 billion Chinese: still ~600 million people are still offline (Xi Jinping wants everyone online by 2020)
- Older phones more prevalent in rural areas, not as many smartphones as seen in urban areas. Worse/no 3G coverage in the countryside?
- Migrant workers (PIC 1. bunk 2. selfie with bed in background 3. group of people)
- indicator: bunk beds
- indicator: gestures
- ca 48:00
- „duang“, a Chinese neologism
- 51:40: Escalator memes
- 53:20 Tianjin explosion: „Pray for Tianjin“
- „“ originally intended as a high five, not hands folded in prayer
- Michelle enjoys fish pics
- 520 = 五二零 = wuerling ~> woaini = 我爱你
Q&A 1:01:30
Thank you, Sendezentrum!
64 Episoden
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