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China Earthquake Relief Efforts on China s Web

Posted on May 15, 2008

Regarding tsunami of late 2004, Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web has summarized three ways that people used the Web in response to the disaster:1) as a constantly updated source of news about the disaster;2) as a way for ordinary people to respond emotionally;3) and probably most importantly, to organize aid efforts.We try to collect the ways how Chinese Internet users take the web to provide news updates and offer relief efforts. Source of news. At the beginning of the earthquake, we can only rely on main stream media and web portals to get news about the quake. But when more and more rescu...

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