Online Censorship and Journalists' Tactics

Xu, Di

doi:10.1080/17512786.2014.982968

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“…A variety of these strategies are documented in prior research of social media in China. For example, in her study of journalistic practice, Xu (2015) outlines strategies employed by Chinese journalists to bypass online censorship; these include the use of homophones to replace sensitive words, and the deverifying of social media profiles to disguise identity. Mina (2014) and also highlight the efficacy of using memes, such as humorous puns and visual images, to express political criticism and dissent under the suppressive Chinese media system.…”

Section: Connective Actionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

#MeToo as Connective Action: A Study of the Anti-Sexual Violence and Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaign on Chinese Social Media in 2018

Zeng

2020

Journalism Practice

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In January, 2018, the global anti-sexual violence and anti-sexual harassment movementpopularly known as MeToo-had its Chinese nascence. This study drew upon the theory of connective actions to investigate how digital technologies shift the way in which feminist activism takes place. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were employed to systematically analyse over 36,000 online articles related to the campaign. The study identified 48 cases of sexual violence and harassment allegations. Findings from time series analysis show that China's MeToo campaign first emerged within educational institutions before gradually spreading to other sectors of society. Based on qualitative findings from the ten most controversial cases, this paper identifies a series of counter-censorship strategies. The study of how the MeToo movement in China emerged, adapted, and grew within an authoritarian context reveals unique insights into how connective actions traverse various platforms and cultural contexts. Methodologically, this study demonstrates how mixed methods can be utilised to study connective actions on social media in China.

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Section: Connective Actionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

#MeToo as Connective Action: A Study of the Anti-Sexual Violence and Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaign on Chinese Social Media in 2018

Zeng

2020

Journalism Practice

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“…On one hand, the state has been exerting greater control over social media use than ever before. For example, the government has employed increasingly sophisticated human and technological censorship measures over social media contents (Nip and Fu, 2016;Xu, 2015). The state-run media have strategically used Weibo to construct the appearance of citizen involvement, although such involvement tended to take place on soft topics (e.g.…”

Section: Tensions and Journalist Struggle In The Social Media Environmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, Chinese journalists found new ways of using social media to pursue autonomy and circumvent state censorship (Cui and Lin, 2015;Hassid and Repnikova, 2016;Lin and Li, 2010;Nip and Fu, 2016;Xu, 2015). Studies reported that journalists employed both discursive tactics (e.g.…”

Section: Tensions and Journalist Struggle In The Social Media Environmentioning

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Journalist social media practice in China: A review and synthesis

Jian

Liu

2018

Journalism

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The growing influence of social media on journalistic work has attracted scholarly attention worldwide in recent years. However, due to cultural and language barriers, we lack comprehensive understanding of the journalist social media practice in non-Western countries. To help fill this gap, this study offers a review and synthesis of existing scholarship on journalist social media practice in China. The authors systematically analyzed recent research studies published in both English-language journals in the West and Chinese-language journals in Mainland China. Drawing on Bourdieu’s field theory, the synthesis provided a comprehensive review of the patterns of practice as well as key tensions that social media use helped amplify and with which Chinese journalists had to contend.

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“…On the other hand, Sullivan (2012) commented that social media are increasingly being 'occupied' by officials working for propaganda departments and security bureaus in order to curtail activities of opposition groups like environmental NGOs and anticorruption movements. Furthermore, literature indicates that in China, social media are monitored by government in order to 'gauge the water', that is, to measure, shape and suppress public opinions (Cairns & Carlson, 2016;Guo & Jiang, 2015;Xu, 2015;G. Yang, 2009), especially during natural disasters (Deng, Liu, Deng, & Zhang, 2015;White & Fu, 2012) or diplomatic incidents (Cairns & Carlson, 2016;Jiang, 2016).…”

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Trust, fear and social influence: on the use of social media in China’s authoritarian governance regime

Homburg¹

2019

Humanizing Technology for a Sustainable Society

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This paper reports on the analysis of results of a survey among Chinese citizens about their intended use of social media to interact with government agencies and associated motivations. Citizens' use intentions were found to be correlated with citizens' trust in officials, social influence (peer pressure) and anxiety, but not with trust in government. These results provide building blocks for an explanatory theory of citizens' use of social media to interact with government, especially in an authoritarian regime like China's system of public governance. This explanatory theory is consistent with an institutional perspective on technology use, in which use intentions and behaviours are explained by norms, practices and takenfor-granted assumptions, rather than by rational cost-benefit considerations. The paper is concluded with recommendations for comparative research on antecedents of social media in governmentcitizen relations in various governance systems.

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Online Censorship and Journalists' Tactics

Cited by 23 publications

References 11 publications

#MeToo as Connective Action: A Study of the Anti-Sexual Violence and Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaign on Chinese Social Media in 2018

#MeToo as Connective Action: A Study of the Anti-Sexual Violence and Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaign on Chinese Social Media in 2018

Journalist social media practice in China: A review and synthesis

Trust, fear and social influence: on the use of social media in China’s authoritarian governance regime

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