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100 1 Roberts, Margaret E.,
245 10 Censored :|bdistraction and diversion inside China's great
firewall /|cMargaret E. Roberts.
264 1 Princeton ;|aOxford :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2018]
264 4 |c©2018
300 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages)
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bc|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
505 0 Introduction. The puzzle of porous censorship ;
Distraction and diversion ; Implications and challenges to
conventional wisdom ; The plan of the book -- A theory of
censorship. Why do governments censor? ; Citizens are
rationally ignorant ; Traditional media care about story
costs ; Citizens exchange low-cost information through
social media ; What is censorship? ; The mechanisms of
censorship ; Fear ; Friction ; Flooding ; Conclusion --
Censorship in China. Modern history of information control
in China ; Censorship of the Chinese Internet -- Reactions
to experience with censorship. China's targeted censorship
strategy ; The costs of observable censorship ; Matched
comparison of censored and uncensored social media users ;
An experimental study of consumers of social media ;
Conclusion -- The powerful influence of information
friction. The effects of content filtering on the spread
of information ; Structural frictions and the Great
Firewall ; When does friction fail? ; Conclusion --
Information flooding : coordination as censorship. What
effect can propaganda have in the digital age? ; Flooding
in China ; Detection of information flooding in newspapers
and online media ; The influence of flooding on the spread
of information ; Conclusion -- Implications for a digital
world. Why porous censorship matters ; Authoritarian
resilience ; Implications for free speech in democracies ;
A call for future research -- Appendix. Description of the
China Urban Governance Survey ; Words related to
censorship, mutual information ; Tibet self-immolations
negative binomial model.
506 1 Unlimited number of concurrent users.|5UkHlHU
650 0 Censorship|zChina.
650 0 Internet|xCensorship|zChina.
650 0 Freedom of information|zChina.
650 0 Social media|xCensorship|zChina.
856 40 |uhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc77b21
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