Excerpted from Newsweek:
The new media are helping activists stay ahead in their cat-and-mouse game with the censors. A series of oral histories about Tiananmen posted in June on the Human Rights in China Web site (hrichina.org ) has been downloaded more than 17,000 times, says executive director Sharon Hom.
The site plans to roll out other shows based on interviews with mainlanders about human-rights abuses in coming months.
"We know that many more people have heard these voices because of the pass-along phenomenon that is very common in China," she says. Podcasting is more effective at reaching illiterate Chinese in rural areas than written material.
Access to the full text of this article may require a subscription and password.
HRIC is not responsible for outdated web links to external sites.
For more information on this issue:
