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Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53176#.VLcU9cnQrzE Author(s) Elmas Sahin * Affiliation(s) Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Çag University, Mersin, Turkey . ABSTRACT Since the 18th century, Turkey increasingly played a significant role for women travel writers such as Lady Marry Montague, Elizabeth Craven, Julia Pardoe, Hester Donaldson Jenkins, Eliza Cheney Abbott Schneider, Mary Mills Patrick, Grace Ellison, who were in curiosity to discover the other: their cultures, customs, literatures, social, political and historical backgrounds and improvements, emancipation movements, sexualities and so on. Whereas some women writers including Zeyneb Hani...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51691#.VHVP72fHRK0 Author(s) Lin Zhongxuan Affiliation(s) Department of Communication, University of Macau, Macao, China . ABSTRACT Internet is supposed to have natural and inherent relationship with democratization, and is also supposed to act as the main battlefield for the public to fight against the authoritarian. The Internet in China, however, does not serve as the “democratic public sphere” for people to fight against the ruling power directly and roundly; instead, it seems to be a Chinese style term of “Jianghu” 江 湖—literally means “rivers and lakes”—an “alternative public sphere” for Chinese people. This article was from the p...