Networked Creativity on the Censored Web 2.0: Chinese Users' Twitter-based Activities on the Issue of Internet Censorship

‘Hidden in plain sight’: Expressing political criticism on Chinese social media

“…Yang's classification points to a more layered understanding of censorship. Together with more recent work, it highlights the complexity of forms of censorship including the relations between different forces and participants as well as the use of political criticism and censorship control within levels of government (see Han, 2015;King et al, 2013;Shao, 2018;Xu and Feng, 2015).…”

“…Previous studies of online expression in China tend to frame it within the dichotomy of ‘censorship and counter-censorship’ or ‘control and resistance’, with a focus on examining how China controls the information environment through an increasing use of search filtering, content removal, website blocking and the ‘Great Firewall of China’, as well as how Chinese Internet users resist and struggle over online censorship. Recently, however, attention has been paid to the complex and dynamic landscape of online expression and the actual sense-making and strategic engagement with censorship mechanisms, such as examining how users design their critical posts to avoid or push back directly with censorship (Han, 2015; Wu, 2018; Xu and Feng, 2015; Yang, 2016). Drawing on these studies, we adopt a discourse approach to explore the methods deployed by Chinese social media users to express political criticism in the context of censorship.…”

How Are Twitter Activities Related to Top Cryptocurrencies' Performance? Evidence from Social Media Network and Sentiment Analysis

“…Nodes refers to the individual actors, people, or any things within a networked system and ties (also called links or edges) refers to the relationships or interactions of the nodes (Hanneman & Riddle, 2005). In this study, we consider twitter accounts of each cryptocurrency as nodes and the relationship between twitter activities such as following, replying, co-tweeting as ties (Xu & Feng, 2015). Indicators and visualizations based on an SNA are particularly useful for identifying the structural pattern of the online social activities (Otte & Rousseau, 2002;Park, Jeong, & Park, 2019;Song, Jung, Kim, & Park, 2019).…”

Networked Human, Network’s Human: Humans in Networks Inter-Asia

“…Other scholars have examined controls on and censorship of technology-mediated networks across different types of regimes in Southeast Asia (see Liu 2014) and in specific contexts, such as South Korea (see Fish 2009) and China (see Xu and Feng 2015;Pan 2017). These sophisticated analyses, often quite nuanced, are typically conducted with an eye toward what these might mean for the region's potential for democracy or civil society, seeking to support the work of digital activists and rights groups and other "positive deviants" (Xu and Feng 2015) against authoritarian regimes.…”

“…Other scholars have examined controls on and censorship of technology-mediated networks across different types of regimes in Southeast Asia (see Liu 2014) and in specific contexts, such as South Korea (see Fish 2009) and China (see Xu and Feng 2015;Pan 2017). These sophisticated analyses, often quite nuanced, are typically conducted with an eye toward what these might mean for the region's potential for democracy or civil society, seeking to support the work of digital activists and rights groups and other "positive deviants" (Xu and Feng 2015) against authoritarian regimes. This is particularly true of such scholarship on China, where patient considerations of the meanings and consequences of the Golden Shield/Great Firewall, Internet, and social media addiction (see Shao et al 2018;Wang et al 2013) and the effect of Internet penetration on political beliefs (see Wang 2014) abound.…”