netizen

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Rather a netizen is an active participant in the affairs of the Net and ultimately of the world.

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  • China's "netizen" population reached 253 million, (an increase in 91 million since the same time last year!), surpassing the number of internet users in the U.S. for the top spot. —  Young Professionals in Foreign Policy
  • (Shandong Province, China) A Chinese blogger (netizen), called "SS Highland Teacher," has been sentenced to five days administrative detention for cross-posting a story he found on an obscure local forum and not verifying that is was true. —  The Jawa Report
  • More and more international companies looking into Chinese market want to hear some honest and valuable opinion from local netizen, but obviously there lacks of channels for this type of communication and the language barrier also sucks. —  China Web 2.0 and Asia Tech News, Open Web Asia
  • Nowadays, every netizen is well approached with this term. —  Digital Point Forums
  • A netizen, Lao Meng planned to organize an alternative Spring Festival Gala online, called Shanzhai Spring Gala 山寨春晚 (The meaning of Shanzhai is home-based factory or mountain village), in November 2008. —  Global Voices Online
 

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