Central State vs. Local Levels of Government: Understanding News Media Censorship in China

Kuang, Xianwen

doi:10.1007/s41111-018-0091-5

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“…As a result, the news media in such countries are considered as more authoritative and conservative (Ostini & Fung, 2002). Take China as an example, with a sophisticated news censorship program, the Chinese propaganda authorities can control the reporting of every piece of news, though they do not usually do so due to some political considerations (Kuang, 2018). For example, as part of its effort to monitor and manage local governments, the central government would encourage news organization at higher levels to report on wrongdoings of the local cadres so that legitimate ruling of the state led by the Chinese Communist Party (hereafter “Party-state”) is not ruined (Kuang, 2018; Liebman, 2011; Lorentzen, 2014).…”

Section: Political Control On News Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Framing international news in China: An analysis of trans-edited news in Chinese newspapers

Kuang

Wang

2020

Global Media and China

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This research explores the variations between Chinese party and non-party newspapers in the framing of trans-edited international news. Existing studies on the framing of Chinese domestic news show that the variations depend on the sensitivity of news, which invokes government control. However, it is not clear how strictly the government would control international news and whether party and non-party news organizations would show similarities or variations in the framing of it. To address these issues, we conducted a comparative quantitative content analysis of 806 pieces of trans-edited international news from one party newspaper and one non-party newspaper. The findings show that the party and non-party newspapers show similarity on the use of three frames but small variations on the other four. This implies a strong control of the Chinese government on the reporting of international news. By comparison, the government control has stronger effects on the party newspaper than on its non-party counterpart.

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Section: Political Control On News Productionmentioning

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Framing international news in China: An analysis of trans-edited news in Chinese newspapers

Kuang

Wang

2020

Global Media and China

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“…It is common knowledge that Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter are banned, in fact, over 8,000 sites are banned in China (Greatfire.org). Studies (Kuang, 2018) suggest that all media content harmful to the legitimate ruling of the communist state is censored. To protect its rule, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has identified a few priorities including the sustaining of economic growth, nationalism, social stability, and rational legal authority and electoral legitimacy.…”

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“…Therefore, the news most likely to be censored is news that the propaganda authorities believe will have a negative effect on the legitimate rule of the Communist Party state. Further, Chinese law mandates that all Chinese news media must contribute to the enhancement of party ruling (Kuang, 2018).…”

Section: The China Syndromementioning

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The Making of a President Using Data Analytics and Social Media

2020

JMDC

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Today, political campaigns rely heavily on analytics to target potential voters. The algorithms used, as well as bias that may be introduced in the process, may skew the results and cost an election, as seen in the Clinton campaign. Additionally, Social Media plays a huge role in political races, as does fake news. More alarming is the new trend for Social Media sites to censor anyone or anything which can also make or break a campaign. In this paper we research events that affected the 2016 Presidential election and present issues that may have an effect on future elections.

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“…To deal with the dilemma, this increase in social-media driven transparency paves the way for the superior and central government to control local officials' malfeasance and departure from their political, legal, and ethical duties in a broader sense [20][21][22] . On one hand, the state allows and even actively stimulates social media, such as microblogs and blogs etc, to expose local officials' malpractice from incompetence to corruption before relevant officials are investigated or convicted, often with the idea to build countervailing power against the distortion of information between the central and local authorities [23] .In fact, it can help explain why the central authority tolerates negative news about local levels of government, though local authorities strive to suppress such news [24] . On the other hand, the central government may also use social media to monitor local officials and ensure local governments and their officials act responsibly [25][26] .…”

Section: The Role Of Social Media As Information Channel For the Centmentioning

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“…In this regard, the central government would choose the strategy of "unsupervised" as its optimal choice, and local governments and their officials tend to adopt limited disclosure, which will trap them into "Prisoners' Dilemma" [11] . To deal with the dilemma, some literatures argued that the role of social media in alleviating the information asymmetry between the central and local government [12][13] . On one hand, social media in essence provides a timely and widespread information channel to supervise regional governments and their officials for the superior and central government, which can improve its supervision efficiency.…”

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The Role of Social Media in Promoting Information Disclosure on Environmental Incidents: An Evolutionary Game Theory Perspective

Ling¹,

Gao²,

Liu³

2018

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Despite the expectation that social media use in the public sector contributes to enhancing government's transparency, few studies have been investigated whether social media use actually leads to more disclosure during environmental incidents in practice and how social media influence local governments and their officials' information disclosure. In this article, we model information disclosure during environmental incidents as an evolutionary game process between the central government and local government in social media context, and examine the internal mechanism that how social media influence the progress of information disclosure during environmental incidents. The findings indicate that social media plays an active constructive role in central-local government game relations. Specific- ally, social media can provides an efficient information channels for the central government supervise regional officials in environmental incidents, and thus improves its supervision efficiency, and it also provides an important means for internet mobilization and online-offline interaction by encouraging the public exchange information and express their views, and in turn forces local governments and their officials tend to disclosure ahead.

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Central State vs. Local Levels of Government: Understanding News Media Censorship in China

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

Framing international news in China: An analysis of trans-edited news in Chinese newspapers

Framing international news in China: An analysis of trans-edited news in Chinese newspapers

The Making of a President Using Data Analytics and Social Media

The Role of Social Media in Promoting Information Disclosure on Environmental Incidents: An Evolutionary Game Theory Perspective

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