Wired posted a story yesterday about how a small riot following the World Series win for the San Francisco Giants sparked what, in China, would be known as a 'human flesh search' for one of the rioters.
Search through social media, in this instance became more of a collaborative experience, not unlike the "human flesh search engine" phenomenon, found in China. I still think it is pretty incredible that social media and smartphones with high speed...
Human-flesh Search Engines Unearth Dark Side of Online Community by Jonathan Allen More 'Me Too' Search Engines in China? Online ads and search results leave lasting impressions, even if consumers don't click - Internet Retailer
In the article he discussed a phenomenon that has being going on in China (and other parts of Asia) since 2001, known as "Human-flesh search engine". Resembling the kind of single issue protest campaigns that the activist network 4-chan is able to...
In China, online vigilantes, or “netizens,” use the Internet as a “human flesh search engine” to find and punish people who publish material they consider inappropriate. While Internet mobbing occurs in other countries, the movement appears to be...
