Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber 

On Buzz, Isaac Mao has published a list of the newest “new words” of C hinese netizens.

This collection is based on work of Hu Yong and students.

The “new words”: http://yingeli.net/zh/2010/02/english-chinglist/

Nominations via Twitter: @prixars #communities

The “Digital Communities” category focuses on the wide-ranging social and artistic impact of the Internet as well as on the latest developments in social software, user generated content, mobile communications, mash-ups and location based services. Digital Communities” focuses on innovation in human coexistence, efforts to bridge the geographical as well as gender-based digital divide, overcoming cultural conflicts and fostering cultural diversity and the freedom of artistic expression. Consideration is also given to projects that advance the practice of sharing and the formation of a “Cloud Intelligence”, and that facilitate access to technological-social infrastructure. Digital Communities spotlights the political and artistic potential of digital and networked systems and is thus designed to singled out for recognition a broad spectrum of projects, programs, artworks, initiatives and phenomena in which social and artistic innovation is taking place, as it were, in real time. A Golden Nica, two Awards of Distinction and up to 12 Honorary Mentions will be awarded in the Digital Communities category in 2010.Among the projects, phenomena, artworks and fields of activity subsumed under the heading Digital Communities are:

* social software
* web 2.0 applications
* social networking systems / friends networks / social self-support groups
* user –generated content & metadata
* citizen journalism / professional amateurs reporting
* crowdsourcing
* real-time web applications
* mapping mashups
* open government data
* artistic collaborative projects
* citizen involvement / citizen journalism
* eRights / eDemocracy / eGovernance

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