The first part of the evening program is a discussion on social media’s role in the democratization of China. There the use of micro blog Weibo, Chinese equivalent of Twitter, is much more prevalent than in Sweden. What does that mean for a greater freedom of speech? What does the development in China look in comparison with, for example, the jasmine revolution in the Arab world?
The Swedish government currently supports net activists in repressive regimes with huge sums of money. In the second part of the evening the implications and how Sweden can act to support Chinese netizens and freedom of speech development are discussed.
Participants: Michael Anti (Zhao Jing), Chinese journalist, blogger and net acitivist known for his posts about freedom of the press in China, Marina Svensson, Sinologist and China expert at Lund University with a focus on human rights, justice and the Chinese media, and Christian Christensen, Professor at the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University
Moderator: Ulrika K. Engström, Swedish PEN and Enact consulting firm, where she works with sustainable strategies for business development with a focus on China and human rights
Language: English
Date: March 13, 2012
Duration: 87 mins
Location: Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Exhibition: Ai Weiwei
Magasin 3 in collaboration with Kulturhuset, Hotade ord and Swedish PEN.