Hong Kong Cyber culture: A Case Study by Amy Lai
Using an English Language community website as an example --- ICERED
ICERED
- Launched in Hong Kong in March 2000
- Target users is the working professional in the city
- Example to examine HK cyber culture
- Discussion in the broader context of cyber democracy
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II. “Your English Sucks”
Class discriminations in the Internet (ICERED)
- 1. University Banding
- 2. College Teaching
- 3. Banking
- 4. Level of English
à Discriminate those who are the lower class, on the other hand, promote the higher class and celebrate them.
III. The Unbearable “White-ness” of ICERED
Battle of different races
- Most of people called Internet a “Radicalized” place
à Criticized the color-blindness
à Dominated by whites
IV. “Men are after sex, women after money”
Hong Kong Man
- Sex-oriented
- Car
- How much they earn
Hong Kong Woman
- Unintelligent
- Bad-looking
- Money-mined
- Lowest IQ in Asia
à No limitation as to how people might describe themselves in cyber space.
V. Homophobia and Queerness
Homosexual discussion in ICERED is accept
- Western people’s mind
- Respect homophobia
However, discussion homophobia in Hong Kong is prohibited
- Not open-minded
- Believed natural value
- Respect Family
- Example for children
à ICERED as a discussion panel online is allowed different voice in the cyber world. à Internet fails to become the equivalent of a public sphere.
VI. “Who wanna be superstars?”
“Party Animal of Hong Kong” of Lynne Lee on ICERED
- Rude and obscene comments
- Appearance can replace the real in virtual space
à Chat Room Culture
- Chat room identities which are continuously invented and forever changeable
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