Chia-Hao Chang
999672426
ASA 004
Prof. Abdullah
17 May 2017
Mobile
Culture May 18th
In
the article. “Virtual Webs of Real People” by Sandip Roy, the author first
addresses the idea of search engine powerfulness. Hence, he gave out an example
where it shows almost seven million searches of “gay” on search engine on web.
However, the number is far less in Asia. In Asia, it only appears merely 346
thousand matches, which are significantly lower than elsewhere. Therefore, the
issue of internet on the topic of homosexuality is in fact lacking in Asia. Yet,
in the article, the author also suggests that many people will be using web
engines abroad that they can receive information globally as well. The internet
was an interesting introduction to Asian world. I still remembered that growing
up in Shanghai, 15 years ago, the internet was just first started in China.
Before than, there was very little information since the government would
purposely block outside news from pouring into China. Now, similarly, Chinese government
still blocks many sources and search engines such as Google, Youtube, and
Facebook. Many have been blocked to view. Therefore, this creates a imagery to
this topic I think.
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