dc.contributor.advisor	Zeller, Thomas
dc.contributor.author	Hegarty, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned	2017-02-02T22:46:21Z
dc.date.available	2017-02-02T22:46:21Z
dc.date.issued	2017-02-02
dc.description.abstract	With almost 722 million active users in 2016, China has become home to one of the largest and fastest growing internet communities in the world. But, due in large part to the restrictive measures by the Chinese Communist Party, much of the Chinese internet is shrouded in mystery in the Western imagination. This paper seeks to provide a more nuanced understanding of the contributions that different actors, benign and malicious, state-sponsored and civilian, make to the complete Chinese internet. Using the Social Construction of Technology theory supported by Weibe Bijker and Trevor Pinch, this paper presents a coherent analysis on the different social facets of the Chinese internet and concludes that "there’s nothing technologically different about internet behind the Great Firewall", and that instead it is the actions and motivations of the wide variety of actors within Chinese cyberspace that make the Chinese internet a uniquely constructed technology.	en_US
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.13016/M22N8V
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/19124
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	University of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.subject	China	en_US
dc.subject	Computer Science	en_US
dc.subject	Cybersecurity	en_US
dc.subject	Science, Technology and Society	en_US
dc.title	The Great Firewall, Terracotta VPN, and the Social Construction of the Chinese Internet	en_US
dc.type	Research Paper	en_US

The Great Firewall, Terracotta VPN, and the Social Construction of the Chinese Internet

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