After a year long hiatus I have decided that I have separated myself from the blog world for too long. Blogs are a way of keeping in touch with friends, keeping informed about current events and sharing ideas that range from discussion of the Buddha's diet to debating who our next president should be.Last year, while studying at the University of St. Andrews in the UK, I blogged to share my personal experiences with my friends and family back home. Here is my old blog: http://austinsscottishblog.blogspot.com/.
Recently, I just confirmed that I’m going to Beijing, China this summer from June 19 - August 26th and I’d like to use the opportunity to jump back on the blog-train. Since the Olympics will be in Beijing, I’m hoping to use this blog to discuss political issues, explore the bounds of Chinese censorship and share my personal perspective and individual experience in Beijing. In summary, here’s a checklist of what I’m hoping to achieve with this blog.
Four reasons why I’m blogging:
1) Keep in touch …with high school friends, college friends, extended family, professors, people that I meet quickly but never see again.
2) Become an amateur journalist in China. “Blogging journalists” advocate that the combination of many individuals’ perspective of an event is just as justified as the formal media as a whole. Either way free-lance journalists are definitely an important alternative and counter-balance to mass media.
3) Case Study. I want to use this blog to test the efficiency of censorship in China – will this webpage maybe get shut down? Will it be inaccessible in China, but accessible to American viewers? Could be interesting…
4) Enrich my mind. Learn from new perspectives. Read about interesting people. Keep informed.
Upcoming Blog Posts
Riots in London, Paris and San Francisco
“Cleaning up your online image”
Prepping for Beijing
My schedule in the fall
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- Austin Tyler
- I'm a 20 year old undergraduate student from California majoring in Political Science. My interests include politics, basketball and learning foreign languages.
4 comments:
The kid is back!
i was going to say the same thing.
cant wait for the train to leave the station.
a funny anecdote related to your interest in whether or not your blog will be censored: a couple of years ago, a friend of mine (i think it was joscha actually) went to china for several weeks. i never got an email from him while he was there, b/c his email provider was called 'freenet.de', so he couldn't go to their site. maybe you should try a variation of that game some people play to see whether their tutors actually their exams and insert FREE TIBET or LONG LOVE THE DALAI LAMA into every other sentence. that might improve the reliability of your experiment.
o0o nice that you're doing this
ill be reading it wen i get the chance ;)
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