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The Diaoyu Islands are an integral part of the Internet by Gabriele de Seta
(Looping the first 50 search results for the query Diaoyu Islands on Baidu Images reveals the augmented geographies of territorial disputes in the age of digital folklore)
Gabriele de Seta is a media anthropologist studying digital folklore in contemporary China. He collects and narrates the genres of vernacular creativity, local humor and platform-specific aesthetics emerging from Chinese digital media ecologies.