I echo Charles Ess in noting the rise of individualism in China. (Or to put it another way, the ending of the short-term Cultural Rev suppression of individualism.) Dare I call it "Networked Individualism" cause people are multiply connected. Our Networked book explicitly looked only at North America, but I'd love to see folks extend the ideas to Asia (N, S, SE) and Europe. On another, related note: peeps shouldnt assume that because authorities block FB & Twitter, that no one can get. My admittedly non-random sample has work-arounds, which I won't disclose. But I will disclose that U Toronto's Citizen Lab headed by Ron Deibert has been getting work-around software to China, Iran, etc. for years. All hail PS: Blocking of FB in China another reason NOT to move this list to FB. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Director FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $22 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________