IntroductionGabriele de SetaEpisode #23: Michelle Proksell about the Chinternet2011 Wenzhou train accidentharmony crab (hexie) and grass mud horse (caonima)China Digital Times on Chinese Internet slangPepperidge Farm remembersInternet in China „netizens“: not a self-description, but an outside categorizationJames Leibold: More Than a Category: Han Supremacism on the Chinese InternetGabriele de Seta: “Meng? It Just Means Cute”: A Chinese Online Vernacular Term in ContextCommon misconceptions Geremie R. Barme and Sang Ye: The Great Firewall of China (1997)Astroturfingprivate companies, local governments as actorsChinese VPN users city country dividevpn crackdown rumorsHarsh Taneja and Angela Xiao Wu: Does the Great Firewall Really Isolate the Chinese? Integrating Access Blockage With Cultural Factors to Explain Web User BehaviorPlatforms killed the WWW star platforms yeah, web nayplatforms and government cooperation/alignmentAlibaba’s high-interest savings appmobile payment apps: Alipay, Wechat PayCurrent research meme/sticker folklore: biaoqing expression, personal sticker packs (basically GIFs)Jiang ZeminGabriele de Seta: The Socialization of Incivility in Postdigital ChinaGabriele de Seta: Trolling, and Other Problematic Social Media Practices, in: The SAGE Handbook of Social Media50 Cent bloggers:Gary King’s (Harvard professor) most recent paper on the topicAtlantic coverage of the 2017 paper: „Trolling by distraction„Washington Post on his 2016 paper: „The Chinese government fakes nearly 450 million social media comments a year. This is why.„Platforms of the Chinternet LINE – Japanese-Korean companyFacebook censoring Taiwanese independence advocates?benshengren and waishengren in TaiwanA meme for the road Gabriele’s favorite meme: JinkelaStereotype of the Japanese devil on Chinese TVGabriele’s visual essay on JinkelaPhoto: WeChat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯